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THAT GOSH DARNED MORTGAGE
Produced and Directed by Pamela Sutch
Written by Jack DastardlyPamela Sutch
Tina Krause
Debbie D
Stephen McKayTHAT GOSH DARNED MORTGAGE is a strange movie indeed. It truly wants to be sweet and innocent like the silent melodramas of 1920's, but the problem is all the breasts. Pamela Sutch, Debbie D, and Tina Krause all reveal their perky pulchritude in this Sutch directed effort.
Not that I have a problem with the female form, mind you. Far from it. There's nothing I like more save for the possible exception of a frozen lemonade from Fazolli's (have you actually ever tried one of those babies? Heaven, man, pure heaven!). It's just that if there ever was a movie where boobs seemed out of place it's this one.
The story is simple enough. Sutch plays a woman who believes her love for the local Mounty is unrequited. The Mounty believes his love for Sutch is unrequited as well. It isn't until a local robberbarron tries to force Sutch to marry him that the two finally come to terms with their silent admiration.
All the plot conventions are lovingly present. A woman about to loose her home to the back. An unexpected windfall from a newly deceased relative. A gripping climax with the damsel tied to the railroad tracks. And then there's those boobs. As glorious as they are, they just seem out of place.
Cinematic sexual repression was never more predominate then in the silent era. Can you picture Buster Keaton or Laurel and Hardy doing the nasty with Tina Krause? Neither can I. Whenever Tina would try to corrupt our poor Mounty, I kept thinking back to Keaton. Would his character in SHERLOCK JR. even know what to do with someone like Debbie D or Krause? I can't see it either.
But that's the point of THAT GOSH DARNED MORTGAGE, to illustrate the taboos of sex and in world where sex itself is taboo. Think David Lynch's BLUE VELVET made by Charlie Chaplin and you have a good idea what a happily bizarre movie THE GOSH DARNED MORTGAGE is. Unlike Lynch, the sex is never treated as being or vile. All the nudity is played with the innocence of a fifth grader sneaking into his first carnival peepshow. After years of wondering what the bog boys get to see, there's the visual feast in all it's amazing splendor.
Yes, you can see all the women from THAT GOSH DARNED MORTGAGE in other movies more explicit in tone. But there's something to be said about making sex fun. After all, that's how it should be enjoyed.