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Fly Me
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Wikipedia article
'Fly Me' is a 1973 United States-Filipino sexploitation film about the adventures of three flight attendants.
Plot
Three young flight attendants fly from Los Angeles, California to Hong Kong. Toby's mother has followed her on the plane and Toby tries to lose her so she can romance a doctor, David. Andrea's lover Donald has gone missing. Sherry is smuggling drugs and is kidnapped by a white slave ring.
Cast
*Pat Anderson as Toby
*Lenore Kasdorf as Andrea
*Lyllah Torena as Sherry
*Richard Young as David
*Naomi Stevens as Toby's mother
*Richard Miller as Taxi driver
*Ken Metcalfe as Donald
*Vic Diaz as Enriquez
*Richard Roake as Co-Pilot
Production
The film contains some kung fu scenes shot by Jonathan Demme and Joe Dante worked on the movie as a dialogue director.Christopher T Koetting, 'Mind Warp!: The Fantastic True Story of Roger Corman's New World Pictures', Hemlock Books. 2009 p 53
Corman did not want the film to seem like it was done in the Philippines so he had Curtis Hanson shoot an opening sequence in Los Angeles where Pat Anderson jumped in a taxi cab driven by Dick Miller.Chris Nashawaty, 'Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen and Candy Stripe Nurses - Roger Corman: King of the B Movie', Abrams, 2013 p 115
Reception
Roger Corman says the film was successful, which he attributed in part to its strong women's lib stance.Ed. J. Philip di Franco, 'The Movie World of Roger Corman', Chelsea House Publishers, 1979 p 182
References
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