Larry steals a valuable mafia list and wants to use it to blackmail people. But a mafia boss orders harsh retribution, so his henchmen, Captain Hook and Tony, kill Larry in his own apartment. The murder is overheard by Larry's buxom wife, Crystal, over the phone. Crystal decides to track down the two killers and take revenge. She takes a job as a striper, seduces Captain Hook, goes to his room, tranquilizes him with a drink—and then suffocates him with her giant breasts. Crystal tracks down the second killer in a hotel, Tony, and suffocates him with her breasts, as well. Back home, Crystal finds out her dad is the mafia boss, so the two shoot each other.
One of the those 'guilty pleasure' cult films, "Deadly Weapons" has an incredible concept that someone actually dared to put down on script—a woman kills two men with her large breasts—and is even more surprising that it was directed by a woman, Doris Wishman, yet, predictably, it does not have much more to offer save for that idea, whereas the ending is bad. Unfortunately, the film is really slow and never as exciting as its initial premise might suggest, since it is kind of boring to wait for 75 minutes to see the two minutes in which the heroine kills just those two men with her cup size. It is very straight-forward, humorless, lax and clumsily edited. Today it lost a lot of its luster—but the beauty of the leading actress, Chesty Morgan, still seems timeless, and at least it has that going for it. Sadly, her accent was allegedly so thick that she was dubbed, and thus it seems as if the camera avoids showing her face whenever she speaks, which seems awkward. Even when she speaks with her father, the camera only shows his face while her voice is only heard off-screen, even though she is sitting next to him. In another scene, her face is hidden behind the guy kissing her, so that her dubbing will again be less apparent. There is one funny moment: Chesty enters a striptease club to apply for a job, but the boss is reading a newspaper and rejects her without even looking at her because she has no "experience". So she just unzips her vest and shows her breasts, and the boss simply lifts his head up and says: "You got the job". If at least there were more of such scenes which show Chesty's charm and control, since in many others, she is just a passive character, save for the two said "pleasant assassinations". Great it is not, but it sure is hot.
Grade:+
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