Cindy and Donna

For the information of your readers - I am the person who played the mother in Cindy and Donna. My stage name was: Suzy Allen. I never used the name Susy Allen and any information shown for Susy Allen does not apply to me. I don't know why I was not credited properly. I agree that Cindy and Donna was a terrible movie, but the stagehands and crew said I was the best actor in the movie! We spent an entire day filming one scene, with me and my "husband" driving on a freeway, with me nagging him about not taking me out often enough !! I had a lot of fun trying to be the whining, miserable wife for the movie, even though in real life I am nothing like that character. It was also very interesting for me to have to dub in some of my lines after the movie was finished. Quite a challenge to get everything right on cue.

This is a fascinating film that goes well beyond typical sexploitation. I have so many questions...

I want to know what happened to the actress that played Cindy. I think she is/was (?) uniquely beautiful and was great in this budgetless film.

Did the director (or anyone else) notice that Sue Allen (the mom) was strung out, had at least one black eye, and had sex bruises all over her thighs? If so, was this an example of excellent casting or of irresponsible film making?

Why was Alice Friedland uncredited? This was a big role. The director was obviously obsessed with her, as evidenced by her large role and the lengthy dance routine at the bar. And, why was she so sweaty/oily in the dance scene? The scene was so long, and she was so oily...

How was it ever acceptable, in a theatrical release, to depict 15 and 17 year old girls stripping in bars, smoking weed, and hookin'? This was a drive-in feature. Other reviewers talked about their parents taking them to see this film by mistake. Can you imagine that? Holy ****. I'm not complaining - I think this movie is awesome. I'm just sayin'...

As for the ending, my question is wtf? Seriously... wtf? Brilliant. Amazing.

This film will hold your attention for 90 minutes. A unique and shocking sexploitation film that is worth watching.

RealReview Posting Scoring Criteria: Acting - 1/1; Casting - 1/1; Directing - 0.5/1; Story - 1/1; Writing/Screenplay - 1/1;

Total Base Score = 4.5

Modifiers (+ or -): Originality: 1;

Music Score/Soundtrack: 0.5 (After finishing the film, watch the intro credits again and think about the lyrics to that song. Awesome.);

Gratuitous Female Nudity: 1 (I just love awarding a full point in this category. Plenty of interesting female nudity in this film, about every 10 minutes or so.);

Distractingly Poor Editing: -1 (Multiple sex scenes turn into a naked woman rolling around on top of a man wearing shorts. None of the camera angles produced anything that resembled intercourse. Eventually, softcore directors learned how to better fake the sex scenes.);

Total RealReview Rating: 6 (This is a very high rating for a sexploitation film. Kudos to the creators and all of the missing actresses.)

This is the epitome of a drive-in smoker. Back in the day, when I was a teen we used to go to drive-in movies just for a place to hang out. Others went for some family entertainment where they could save money by charging by the carload rather than by the individuals. You usually got to see three movies. Depending on what night you went, you either got some G- rated family movies (one first run movie and two less than mediocre throw-aways), three horror or action movies (same deal) or you got the sexploitation movies that were often one step away from a hard "R" or soft porn flick. Sometimes they were sex comedies but often they were low-budget hippie chick flicks where the actors seemed to take themselves too seriously. Cindy and Donna kind of falls in to the latter. This is more than just some flirtatious fun. This really is nothing short of some classic softcore.

Cindy and Donna Weeks are two teenage half sisters who live with their dysfunctional parents ( a booze hound mother and a lecherous, infidelity-prone father). While Donna is an "experienced" girl marching toward woman-hood with a boyfriend, younger red-haired sis, Cindy is conflicted and hesitant but still curious about sex. She spies on her sister and listens to her best friend, Karen talk about sex. She also spies on her drunken father as one night he falls into bed with her half sister, his stepdaughter, Donna.

Basically there's no real plot that's worth following. It's just these three girls falling into sexual situations to the soundtrack of some "groovy" music (it's hilarious how the script has them drop these hip soundbites of the day like 'far out', 'can you dig it?' and 'I'm hip' every five or ten minutes). The editing is what you'd expect for a low-budget movie from 1970. It's choppy and the film is a little grainy in spots. But this isn't the type of movie you watch for the craftsmanship of filmmaking.

In fact, every female featured in the movie seems to be involved in the liberation of the sexual revolution with even Mrs. Weeks throwing herself at her husband's friends. The younger girls are all gorgeous and have no problem disrobing and one girl dances almost nude for a full 30-40 seconds with the camera ogling her naked body. This reminds me why this is one of my favorite periods. The mini-skirts and dresses these girls wear are so short, they can't even lift their arms without giving a show. And the drug use is in full effect. The girls all smoke pot and mom and dad are drunk-a-holics.

I bought this as part of a set of four exploitation movies. It's ironic that I watched this one last and it turned out to be the best of the set.

Who's the "hooker" dancing naked in the bar near the beginning of the movie, the one the father has an affair with? She's not in the credits on the movie, and not on IMDb either. She is smoking hot, and it's a shame there's no credit of her! We just saw this movie and it's pretty okay, i think the story and morals are about on point for today, although they slightly play up that pot makes girls explore each other. Is that really so bad of a thing? Anyway, the girl dancing who has the romps with the father is definitely a highlight of the film, for 1970, she really has it going on! Anyone know who she is, or can recognize her from any other early, or later, movie? The compilation we bought has 8 films on it, and this is one of them.

This was a great period movie. My mom and dad took me to the drive inn movies at Paintsville KY in 1971 and this was playing. They had no idea it was an adult film. When the first nude scene played we left and they were red faced. When I turned 18 the movie was playing at the Trail Drive Inn in Flatwoods KY and I went to see it. I really liked it. I wish they made more movies like this today. The acting was very good and I often wonder what happened to the stars of the film and if I can buy it on DVD. If anyone out there knows of where to buy this film on DVD please put up a post as I would really like to have this film in my collection.