Post by Davb on Jan 12, 2017 19:55:05 GMT -8
I think some X rated movies we saw back in the late seventies could be connected to Vietnam war and the Zodiac killer.
I was just going to give it very briefly ,but the whole story is not too long .
In 77 ,I was 18 and worked along side men in their mid thirties at a shop , three were vets from the Vietnam war. One was Steve he was a Army Ranger, another a Marine. We did not have much in common so we rarely chatted except when the mobile-teria truck came on break.
There was a drive-in theater here that had given up running current first run movies and just ran ones from years past and B-C grade stuff . I remember seeing Vanishing Point , Dirty Larry &Crazy Mary , Smokey and the Bandit ,also Kung-Fu type the Green Hornet , then they had X rated on the bill. ( very tame you had only a few seconds to see the hard stuff)
One day on the food truck break a guy my age and I talking with in earshot of Steve ,I said I went to the Drive-In Saturday night . He asked “what was the Xrated movie ,how was it?”
I said “Aw it was kind of nothing , a Johnny Wadd movie really grainy and some older ones just like it”
Steve butts in “ where !,where did you see the Johnny Wadd movies !” I told him which Drive-IN had them , he talks to the other vets and they go crazy over hearing about the movies . I couldn't figure out what was the big deal these were badly produced laughable as porn movies .
The next weekend me and the guys went again and out there I see Steve and other Nam vets are piled into a Wagoner the company used to ferry customers around and these xrated movies are playing , they are laughing ,drinking having a great time and talking about there time in Nam , I stopped by saying hello,
The next week ,Steve takes me out to lunch Thanks me for telling him about the drive-in and those movies saying “ oh man you don't know how much we enjoyed those movies again “ It was that the earlier super 8 short movies were made by a marine back in california from 65-66 ? They were what the John Holmes – johnny Wadd were styled after . A private Eye in LA has to find out who killed someone , gets seduced by every other young woman , the star driving a convertible or BSA motorcycle at the beach, in the nicer hills area, to a party ,business etc. in other words it was about an escape of being back home and a stud ,more than the porn .
That's what every soldier wanted ,to be back in the U S, driving a nice car & meeting a girl, partying and being a cop was a very do able job after Vietnam ,especially a Detective .
and that they would usually find them in a town some shop not a theater but just in the back the owner set up a place for 10-12 to watch on Super 8 projector . Usually some local hotties would set on your lap for a couple bucks ,more if you had more $.
I still remember the 16 mm Wadd movies had one villain that John never caught he left a calling card , a couple times you saw his profile , but he had a black cloth or full mask over his head to avoid any detection , they usually played this episode last so you would come see them again. And this villain had a moniker
The earlier Super 8 ,65-66 the same , these movies were only 15 -20 min long , much of the film audio was just 60's music, but he made 30+ of them , the villain wore a mask of some sort ,I think it was the same guy as the star , because they were never in the same frame as I remember
Steve told me he talked to the drive-in owner and he ran all the films like that one week night for 200 nam vets.
I was just going to give it very briefly ,but the whole story is not too long .
In 77 ,I was 18 and worked along side men in their mid thirties at a shop , three were vets from the Vietnam war. One was Steve he was a Army Ranger, another a Marine. We did not have much in common so we rarely chatted except when the mobile-teria truck came on break.
There was a drive-in theater here that had given up running current first run movies and just ran ones from years past and B-C grade stuff . I remember seeing Vanishing Point , Dirty Larry &Crazy Mary , Smokey and the Bandit ,also Kung-Fu type the Green Hornet , then they had X rated on the bill. ( very tame you had only a few seconds to see the hard stuff)
One day on the food truck break a guy my age and I talking with in earshot of Steve ,I said I went to the Drive-In Saturday night . He asked “what was the Xrated movie ,how was it?”
I said “Aw it was kind of nothing , a Johnny Wadd movie really grainy and some older ones just like it”
Steve butts in “ where !,where did you see the Johnny Wadd movies !” I told him which Drive-IN had them , he talks to the other vets and they go crazy over hearing about the movies . I couldn't figure out what was the big deal these were badly produced laughable as porn movies .
The next weekend me and the guys went again and out there I see Steve and other Nam vets are piled into a Wagoner the company used to ferry customers around and these xrated movies are playing , they are laughing ,drinking having a great time and talking about there time in Nam , I stopped by saying hello,
The next week ,Steve takes me out to lunch Thanks me for telling him about the drive-in and those movies saying “ oh man you don't know how much we enjoyed those movies again “ It was that the earlier super 8 short movies were made by a marine back in california from 65-66 ? They were what the John Holmes – johnny Wadd were styled after . A private Eye in LA has to find out who killed someone , gets seduced by every other young woman , the star driving a convertible or BSA motorcycle at the beach, in the nicer hills area, to a party ,business etc. in other words it was about an escape of being back home and a stud ,more than the porn .
That's what every soldier wanted ,to be back in the U S, driving a nice car & meeting a girl, partying and being a cop was a very do able job after Vietnam ,especially a Detective .
and that they would usually find them in a town some shop not a theater but just in the back the owner set up a place for 10-12 to watch on Super 8 projector . Usually some local hotties would set on your lap for a couple bucks ,more if you had more $.
I still remember the 16 mm Wadd movies had one villain that John never caught he left a calling card , a couple times you saw his profile , but he had a black cloth or full mask over his head to avoid any detection , they usually played this episode last so you would come see them again. And this villain had a moniker
The earlier Super 8 ,65-66 the same , these movies were only 15 -20 min long , much of the film audio was just 60's music, but he made 30+ of them , the villain wore a mask of some sort ,I think it was the same guy as the star , because they were never in the same frame as I remember
Steve told me he talked to the drive-in owner and he ran all the films like that one week night for 200 nam vets.
