Nude On the Moon
1961, X, 83 min.
Directed by Doris Wishman, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Marietta, William Mayer, Lester Brown, Pat Reilly, Ira Magee, Shelby Livingston, Lacey Kelly.

Doris Wishman was the queen of the nudies, soft-core exploitation films made during the Sixties. Wishman wrote, directed, produced, cast, and edited all her films, and she was incredibly prolific and singular. Nude on the Moon is the story of scientists who travel to the moon only to find it inhabited by – gasp! – hordes of nude women.

This article appears in September 15 • 2000.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.