[Tangocash1234]

Hello,

I've always thought that sexpliotation film catfights from 60s & 70s are my favourite type of filmed female tussle.This is for a number of reasons.

1) The women were beautiful, feminine and natural which added to the sensuality of the struggle. Plastic boobs and tattoos do nothing for me. There scantily clad or nude struggles were far better for it.

2) The style of fighting was traditional catfighting - hair pulling, close body grappling, slapping. Usually interspersed with feminine groans and crys. None of this turbo charged martial arts style and hyper kinetic editing. For me, these were far more sexier.

3) Whilst many such films were done to a budget, their production values were a cut above your typical pure porn film. For me, the more crafted the cinematic contest the better. The classic is Frwl, where professional editing and choreography really enhanced the gypsy fight.

All these factors add up to a far more erotic catfight "experience". It's shame there are no real equivalent films today. I wonder where future fights such as these will come from?

Does anyone else feel the same way?

I've attached some old Sexpliotation movie magazine covers to show the type of thing I mean.

Tangocash

[cfight]

I agree. The old movies with catfights especially westerns had really good catfights. I'm not into the martial arts type of fights as they are more fake. When real women fight it's hair pulling and ending up on the floor. I do prefer both women wearing skirts and pantyhose, just my thing, when they fight.

[Bear]

I couldn't agree more, but maybe it's just because I'm old.  The fights that now appear in movies and on TV shows are either martial arts battles or outright slugfests.  Neither do anything for me.  You make a good point in targeting the sexploitation films that were apart from mainstream movie catfights.  The cheesiness of these movies gave them a unique flavor.  These types of films were generally filmed in black and white in the 50's, then in color in the 60's and the themes would have included: teenage juvenile delinquency; bikers, women in prison; B grade westerns.     

And I have to give an extra shout out to Roger Corman, the King of low budget flicks.  Almost every one of the movies that he directed (except Little Shop of Horrors) had a catfight scene.  He knew that he would get extra patrons for no other reason than just to watch a catfight. 

[wasteland1952]

I agree 100%!  And like Bear, I'm one of the old "baby boomers," born and raised in the 50's and 60's.

The movie and tv fights back then were real catfights, hair pulling, slapping, kicking, rolling over each other on the floor, breast to breast, and thighs interlocked.  Those were the fights that excited me and still do all these decades later.  And it wasn't just the movie fights that were different back then.  The real fights back then  were kind of like the movie fights.  The girls engaged in hair pulling catfights.  Nowadays, when you see a vid of two girls fighting, you hear the crowd screaming at the girls to stop pulling hair, and if they fall to the ground, you can count on one or two people breaking them up so they can stand up and start again.  They want the girls to fight like guys, and it's just not the same.

Oh well, just my 2-cents worth.  Great subject to post.

[Tangocash1234]

 Hello everyone

Thanks for your replies.

It makes you wonder what potentially excellent sexy film catfights have been lost to history. Either through limited distribution runs or neglect. Though some of the fights never even made to camera (a number of fights were photo-staged for the magazines apparently). Maybe some copies are decaying away in some persons attic awaiting rediscovery.

As I've said before, if a modern producer were to make storyline catfights of a similar retro-style, with a bit of back story, reasonable choreography and beautiful enthusiastic women then I would pay good money for them. Perhaps like California Wildcats (back in their prime) but with a bigger budget to give a cinematic feel. Maybe animated catfights could be the way to go in the future.

It looks like this particular catfight niche is dying out, leaving us with either martial arts mainstream cinema catfights (which leave me cold) or over the top porn fights (which are ok but acting is never great).

One day maybe.......