Yvonne D'Angers Movies

Russ Meyer followed-up his delirious Beyond the Valley of the Dolls with this surprisingly straighforward drama, which offered little of Meyer's traditional tongue-in-cheek humor or remarkably proportioned women in favor of a serious message about the evils of censorship. A bookstore sells a copy of a notorious erotic novel, entitled The Seven Minutes, to a teenager who is later arrested for rape. A prosecutor on a crusade against pornography seizes upon this as an opportunity to have the book declared obscene, and the trial sparks a heated debate about the issue of pornography vs. free speech, as well as revealing a startling revelation about the novel's true author. Adapted from a novel by Irving Wallace, The Seven Minutes featured one of Meyer's more interesting casts, including veteran character actors John Carradine and Alexander D'Arcy, a post-Munsters Yvonne de Carlo, a pre-Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck, lounge comic Jackie Gayle, and Wolfman Jack as himself. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Any resemblance to the character of this film and the actual poet Sappho of Lesbos is only in quoting some of the poetry. Sappho (Carol Young) repeatedly spurns the advances of various men and finally winds up in bed with Brigitte (Yvonne D'Angers). Despite poetry and quotes from Freud and Kinsey, this is nothing more than a sexploitation feature. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi