Mudhoney

California McKinney (John Furlong) is hitchhiking to the state he was named for after serving a five-year sentence for manslaughter. He runs out of money in Spooner, MO, and finds work at a farm run by Lute Wade (Stuart Lancaster) and his niece, Hannah Brenshaw (Antoinette Christiani). All Calif ...more

Exploitation pioneer Russ Meyer helms this sweaty, swampy, hillbilly melodrama which bursts with bulging bustlines and black emotions. Though the director is famously obsessed with large-breasted women, with Mudhoney he most clearly displays his gift for choosing unique character actors with unforgettable faces. Craggy jowls and pop-eyed countenances abound, most memorably Princess Livingston as local madam Maggie Marie and tree-dwelling village idiot Mickey Fox. Mudhoney also boasts the first ...more