Beautiful, gorgeous female private eye "Stacey Hanson" (Anne Randall) is hired to investigate the family of aging "Florence Chambers" (Marjorie Bennett), and discovers infidelity, blackmail, murder, and worse. She and her assistant wind up the targets of paid killers (including Nicholas Giorgiade from THE UNTOUCHABLES), and it all climaxes in one VERY long, VERY fast and violent high-speed chase in the desert. Along the way, lots of nudity and other fun stuff punctuate the proceedings.
I rented Andy Sidaris' first 4 films from my video store back in the 90s and made copies of them. Been enjoying them several times since. Don't know why I didn't continue (job inconsistency the most likely reason), but it's okay, as I JUST ordered the "Girls, Guns & G-Strings" box set on DVD.
It's a toss-up as to which was my favorite, "SEVEN" or "MALIBU EXPRESS". Just re-watched "STACEY" tonight, and it remains a FUN film from start to finish. The copy I have has always been fuzzy- picture and sound- which made the film seem amateurish, compared to the later films. Was the film like that, or was it just a seriously-INFERIOR videotape transfer?
I never connected until tonight that the LONG climactic action sequence involving a shoot-out, a car chase, a helicopter, and another chase and shoot-out on foot parallels the one seen in "SHAFT'S BIG SCORE" the previous year! (Perhaps Sidaris didn't have the budget to actually blow up the helicopter this time- heh.)
I was researching these films this week, and suddenly found out the first 3 films had been co-financed by A- Roger Corman (New World Pictures), B- Samuel Z. Arkoff (American International Pictures) and, C- Hugh Hefner, respectively. However, Hefner argued over the content, then sold his half to someone else behind Sidaris' back. Sidaris was PISSED- and so raised more money, bought back Hef's half, and determined from then on to finance his films entirely on his own. WAY TO GO!
For whatever reason, it took until 2018 for "SEVEN" to be reissued on DVD and Blu-Ray. I wonder if Corman having sold New World, and NW then having GONE UNDER a few years later, is why "STACEY" is currently in some kind of "limbo"? SOMEBODY needs to fix that- and put out a DECENT-looking print of it, after ALL these years.
I rented Andy Sidaris' first 4 films from my video store back in the 90s and made copies of them. Been enjoying them several times since. Don't know why I didn't continue (job inconsistency the most likely reason), but it's okay, as I JUST ordered the "Girls, Guns & G-Strings" box set on DVD.
It's a toss-up as to which was my favorite, "SEVEN" or "MALIBU EXPRESS". Just re-watched "STACEY" tonight, and it remains a FUN film from start to finish. The copy I have has always been fuzzy- picture and sound- which made the film seem amateurish, compared to the later films. Was the film like that, or was it just a seriously-INFERIOR videotape transfer?
I never connected until tonight that the LONG climactic action sequence involving a shoot-out, a car chase, a helicopter, and another chase and shoot-out on foot parallels the one seen in "SHAFT'S BIG SCORE" the previous year! (Perhaps Sidaris didn't have the budget to actually blow up the helicopter this time- heh.)
I was researching these films this week, and suddenly found out the first 3 films had been co-financed by A- Roger Corman (New World Pictures), B- Samuel Z. Arkoff (American International Pictures) and, C- Hugh Hefner, respectively. However, Hefner argued over the content, then sold his half to someone else behind Sidaris' back. Sidaris was PISSED- and so raised more money, bought back Hef's half, and determined from then on to finance his films entirely on his own. WAY TO GO!
For whatever reason, it took until 2018 for "SEVEN" to be reissued on DVD and Blu-Ray. I wonder if Corman having sold New World, and NW then having GONE UNDER a few years later, is why "STACEY" is currently in some kind of "limbo"? SOMEBODY needs to fix that- and put out a DECENT-looking print of it, after ALL these years.