WONDERLANDS: ALICE IN WONDERLAND, 1976

Today's adaptation of Alice in Wonderland comes to us from that strange period in the 1970s when porno movies briefly broke into the American mainstream.

In 1974, producer Bill Osco brought the world the softcore Flash Gordon parody Flesh Gordon. The movie was a big hit, so in 1976 Osco set his sights on pornifying the Lewis Carroll classic. Osco's Alice in Wonderland (sometimes re-titled Alice in Wonderland: A Musical Porno) played in multiplexes alongside Star Wars, and was a massive success, earning 90 million bucks and scoring some surprisingly positive reviews. Roger Ebert was one of the critics charmed by the film, writing of leading lady Kristine De Bell, "Maybe it's her perpetual look of total innocence and astonishment in the face of Wonderland's jolly pastimes that makes her seem so sexy. She looks just like the healthy blond with wide-set eyes and Toni curls that sat across the aisle in high school -- or should have."

Every adaptation of Alice is weird in its own way, but Osco's Alice is weirder than most. Here's a musical number that would be perfectly at home in a cheapie kid's movie of the era.



And here's a sequence that absolutely could not be mistaken for a kid's movie. There's no nudity, but this clip is probably not safe for work due to adult concepts, ladies in their underwear and some extremely creepy talk about parts of Humpty Dumpty I don't even want to think about.



The film has been released in both X and R-rated versions, but it's not widely available today. I've never actually seen it, and judging by the clips online, I think I might be OK with that. Porning up Flash Gordon is no big crime, that comic strip was pretty kinky already. But you start porning around with beloved children's stories and doing musical numbers about Humpty Dumpty's bedroom troubles, and I am out of there like a White Rabbit late for a croquet date with the queen.

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