Producer Maurice Levy takes us into wilder territory with She Mob (1968), a black-and-white "roughie" that appears to have been cast with various washed-up whores, johns, and dominatrixes living in the Texas town where the film was shot. In a remarkable dual role, dumpy but charismatic Marni Castle plays both "Big Shim," a dominant dyke who walks around in leather-cone bra and hip boots, and wealthy executive Brenda McClain, who wears gold lame business suits. (Maybe this was de rigueur in Texas at the time.) The leather dyke kidnaps Brenda's live-in stud, who proceeds to run off with one of Big Shim's prison-escapee girlfriends. But Shim has her revenge when she dresses the stud in bra and fishnets and has her girls bullwhip him. A female detective with a pet ocelot and a jumpsuit with the ass cut out adds sleazy spice.
-- Gary Morris
She-Freak screens Monday, April 28, at 6:30 and 9:45 p.m., along with She Mob at 8 p.m., at the Roxie, 3117 16th St. (at Valencia). Eddie Muller, co-author of Grindhouse: The Forbidden World of "Adults-Only" Cinema, appears at the 8 p.m. show. Tickets are $6; call 863-1087.
