Jim Holliday Blonde Brigade ★

Director: Jim Holliday (as "Jimi Holliday") Released: 1991 (Video) Studio: VCA Pictures Tagline: "They march to a different drummer... and they take no prisoners!"

The soundtrack is a hilarious blend of public-domain marching band music (think "The Caissons Go Rolling Along") and cheesy synth rock that sounds like it was programmed on a Casio keyboard. It never stops, which becomes exhausting. Blonde Brigade is not erotic in a traditional sense. The sex scenes are frequent but often undercut by the relentless comedy and the performers’ obvious awareness that they’re in a farce. The runtime (over 80 minutes) feels too long; by the third act, the joke has worn thin. jim holliday blonde brigade

If you approach Jim Holliday’s Blonde Brigade expecting a linear narrative or high-gloss modern production, you will be lost in the first ten minutes. However, if you understand it as a time capsule—a loving, hyper-stylized tribute to the pre-AIDS, pre-VHS-crash "Golden Age" of adult cinema—you’ll find one of the most unique and energetic features of the early 1990s. Holliday, a legendary historian and critic turned director, never made straightforward movies. Blonde Brigade is his send-up of wartime propaganda serials and 1940s "Rosie the Riveter" morale films. The plot (such as it is) follows a clandestine unit of female operatives—all blonde, all buxom, all absurdly named—on a mission to retrieve a stolen microchip. Their weapons? Not guns, but strategically deployed seduction. Director: Jim Holliday (as "Jimi Holliday") Released: 1991