The Booby Hatch
The Booby Hatch (1976)
Director: Rudy Ricci and John Russo
Also known as: The Liberation Of Cherry Jankowski
Tagline: “The ultimate in sexual fulfillment!”
Plot: Cherry Jankowski (played by Sharon Joy Miller) isn’t getting all she hoped for out of the sexual revolution. She’s dating a Bible-thumping closet transvestite who shows no interest in her filmy négligées. Her next-door neighbor keeps asking for her help hanging curtains and straightening rugs, then molesting her when she’s in compromising positions. Her psychiatrist is awfully hands-y, and more concerned with getting himself off than with listening to Cherry’s problems. And her building’s stammering superintendent keeps pestering her with the most depressing obscene phone calls in the history of perversion.
Meanwhile, Cherry spends her days working for Theophilus Suck’s marital-aids company Joyful Novelties, testing sex toys that only make her hornier. But the JN product line is having the opposite effect on her co-worker Marcello Fettucini (played by Rudy Ricci, The Booby Hatch’s co-director), who’s suffering a prolonged bout of impotence. Fettucini’s bosses would fire him for his failures, but they’d risk the wrath of Fettucini’s brother, a mobster who talks like Humphrey Bogart for no apparent reason.
Mr. Suck tries to get Fettucini back on track by giving him free rein with his technologically advanced robotic sex-doll—“I left my wife for one of these!” Suck says—but Fettucini isn’t interested. Plagued by fears that he might be gay, or at least perpetually joyless, Fettucini tries to kill himself, but he’s hauled in by the cops, who find it hard to believe his tale of woe.