Nude on the Moon
Oh, those crazy moon-hopping kids! There's something endearingly  innocent about Doris Wishman's ridiculous 1960 nudie romp with a science  fiction twist. The nation's most brilliant young rocket scientist decides  to build his own private rocket ship to the moon with his uncle's  inheritance and takes off secretly with his partner, a pipe-chomping  professor. Much to their surprise, it turns out to be a lush landscape that  looks suspiciously like Florida, with a nudist camp in a nearby crater  stuffed with topless beauties, posed and poised and waiting for the cameras to  click. "I feel like a schoolboy!" exclaims our hero. "Just remember,"  the professor cautions, "we're scientists." To that end, he snaps as many  photos as he can before their air runs out. One of Wishman's best-looking  films, it's shot in soft, luscious color, which only makes it look more  like a Vargas calendar come to life. The special effects are special only  by virtue of their tinselly cheapness, and a cool vibes score accompanies  the moon scenes. The print is remarkably well preserved, and the disc also  features a cosmic-striptease short subject and a Doris Wishman poster  gallery.--Sean Axmaker