charlytully Review of Mrs. Stone's Thing

Mrs. Stone's Thing (1970)

Trivial Pursuit for a film hardly worth pursuing

[2/10 · 24 October 2008]

Building on what the Aussie said more than six years ago in this lonely comment section, this movie's title song (which is used for both opening & closing the flick) is perhaps the essential "artifact" offered (fast-forwarding through the middle 74 minutes of this 79-minute show eliminates 99% "tease" and maybe 1% action--and WHAT exactly happened in the heavily edited scene between "the hostess" and her parrot?). Extremely telling is that 90% of this exploitation film's cast and crew worked on NO other movies or TV shows, including most of the featured players. Though former U.S. Marine and MRS. STONE'S THING director Joseph F. Robertson soon changed his calling card to "Adele Robbins," under which he directed DEBBIE DOES DALLAS III and a string of other pornos, PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE director Ed Wood was NOT the only notable to "act" in this mishmash. For those not fast-forwarding, the background bartender (Bob Watson) played PeeWee as an 8-year-old in 1938's BOYSTOWN, and one of the 18 guys glued into their whitey-tighties throughout the "orgy" party is John Boylan, who went on to become Mayor Dwayne Milford in TV's Twin Peaks.