Eve and the Handyman
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| Starring | Eve Meyer Anthony-James Ryan | |
| Directed by | Russ Meyer | |
| Produced by | Russ Meyer | |
| Written by | Russ Meyer | |
| Editing by | Russ Meyer | |
| Studio | Eve Productions | |
| Cinematography | Russ Meyer | |
| Distributed by | Pad-Ram Enterprises | |
| Released | May 5, 1961 (in USA) | |
| Runtime | 65 minutes | |
| Country | United States | |
| language | English | |
Eve and the Handyman is a 1961 American comedy film written and directed by Russ Meyer. The film stars Eve Meyer and Anthony-James Ryan. The film was released on May 5, 1961, by Pad-Ram Enterprises.
It was Meyer's follow up to The Immoral Mr. Teas, which had been very successful.
Plot
Eve is dressed in a long raincoat and follows the handyman around as he makes his appointed rounds. She watches as he has humorous run-ins while cleaning toilets, taking scrap metal to the dump, cleaning windows, delivering a tree, climbing poles, and remaining a gentleman while trying to help a topless hitchhiker. But why is she watching him so carefully?
Cast
- Eve Meyer as Eve
- Anthony-James Ryan as The Handyman
- Frank Bolger
- Iris Bristol
Production
The female lead, Eve Meyer, was Russ Meyer's wife. It was the only film of his she starred in, although she was heavily involved behind the scenes on most of his early films. She did her own hair and makeup and cooked for the crew. "I never worked so hard in my life," she said later.
The film's male lead, Anthony-James Ryan, was Russ Meyer's right-hand man. The film was shot in San Francisco over a month in 1960. Ryan recalled Eve typed the script; it wasn't even a script, just a list of ideas. That's all we had to work with. I improvised some of the stuff." Ryan also assisted in production.
Meyer says there was a crew of four - Russ Myer, his assistant, Eve Meyer and Ryan.
Ryan met his future wife, Jacqueline Stevens, while making the film. She played a nude model.
Reception
According to Roger Ebert, the film grossed nearly a million dollars.
Ebert also wrote "One of the most interesting scenes in the movie has Eve dancing in a low-cut dress while playing a pinball machine: the rhythm and cutting suggest sexual intercourse, and the scene has a nice balance between eroticism and humor. A frequent Meyer turnabout theme- the desirable woman who is rejected by the undesirable man- turns up in Eve in a hitchhiking scene. Unable to get a lift, Eve takes off one garment after another, still with no success."
References
- Wikipedia article: Eve_and_the_Handyman
External links
- {{Imdb title|0054859|Eve and the Handyman}md*Eve and the Handyman at TCMDB
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