Chatterbox! (1976)

USA, 1976
73m
35mm film, colour
mono, English

An American comedy fantasy film directed by Tom De Simone.

Plot Summary

A young woman discovers that her vagina has developed a life of her own and has started talking.

Credits

Crew
Directed by: Tom De Simone
© MCMLXXVI [1976] Lips Productions
Bruce Cohn Curtis’ production
Executive Producers:
Produced by: Bruce Cohn Curtis
Associate Producer: John Llew. Williams
Screenplay by: Mark Rosin Mark Bruce Rosin] and Norman Yonemoto
Story by: Tom De Simone
Director of Photography: Tak Fujimoto
Film Editor: William Marlin
Music Scored and Conducted by: Fred Karger
Songs by: Michael Hazlewood
Sound Mixer: Carey Lindley
Make-Up Artist: Alan I. Friedman
Hair Stylist: Barbara Warwick
Art Director: Jules Mason

Cast
Candice Rialson (Penelope)
Larry Gelman (Dr Pearl)
Jane Kean (Eleanor Pittman)
Perry Bullington (Ted)
Arlene Martel (Marlene)
Michael Taylor (Dick)
Cynthia Hoppenfeld (Linda Ann)
Robert Lipton (Jon David)
Rip Taylor (Mr Jo)
Professor Irwin Corey (himself)
Sandra Gould (Mrs Bugatowski)
Trent Dolan (Frank Rio)
Lois Walden (receptionist)
Gloria Victor (Robert Student)
Jessica Stuart (woman reporter)
Robert De Simone Bob DeSimone] (cab driver)
Biff Warren (Skip)
Bill Wood (Texas)
Craig Rogers (basketball player)
Ken Johnson (Manny Applebaum)

Alternative Titles

Chatterbox… il sesso parlante – Italy
O Fenómeno Americano – Portugal
Shock i Showbiz – Norway
Snakkeboksen – Norway

See also
Le sexe qui parle (1975)

Extracts included in
Twisted Sex Vol. 12 (1996)

Includes extracts from
42nd Street Forever! Volume 1: Horror on 42nd Street (2004)
42nd Street Forever, Volume 5: The Alamo Drafthouse Edition (2009)
Blood of 1000 Virgins (2013)
One Froggy Evening (1955)

References

Periodicals

  • Cinefantastique vol.5 no.4 (Spring 1977) p.23 – review
  • Film Bulletin vol.45 no.11/12 (November/December 1976) p.35 – review
  • Film Bulletin vol.46 no.3 (March 1977) – review
  • Variety 23 February 1977 p.18 – review

Books

  • American International Pictures: A Comprehensive Filmography by Rob Craig p.211
  • American International Pictures: A Filmography by Robert L. Ottoson p.297 – credits, synopsis, review
  • Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures by Mark Thomas McGee p.304
  • Rock ‘n’ Roll Monsters: The American International Story by Bruce G. Hallenbeck p.267