This tribute to the strippers of days gone by from Something Weird Video is a simply exhaustive set of shorts, features, trailers and more. Spread over two discs, each disc has a feature length attraction, and a wealth of extra features. The back of the packaging states that this package is 'The most striptacular DVD ever made!' and I tend to think that that may very well be true.

One thing worth mentioning about this set, before I get to the rest of the review, is that it works best in small doses. It's the perfect type of movie to put on in the background during a party or something like that, where you're not really paying attention to it. The majority of this material is just plotless stripper footage and although I personally have a strangely high tolerance for that type of stuff, others who do not will find themselves getting bored by it. Here's what you get for your hard earned $24.99.

Feature #1 – A Virgin In Hollywood (1952): A pretty young woman named Dorothy Sloan is an adventurous reporter for the local small town newspaper. Her mission is to head to the Hollywood hills and uncover the real scoop on the secret lives of the stars. She follows a lead to a photography studio setup at a ranch in the middle of nowhere outside of the city. Here she finds lovely young beauties being photographed in their bikinis. She tries to escape but it's all in naught and she ends up being asked to model. What better way for her to experience the world than to attend a burlesque show, I hear you ask? Well there is no better way and that's exactly what she does, with these sequences appearing in 3-D no less. They look like they might have been edited into the movie just so that it could have some 3-D in it, but 3-D hotties are 3-D hotties and sometimes that's all it takes to amuse me. After this, she's convinced and ends up in front of the camera for a few sessions. She heads back to her small town, kisses her boss on the cheek, and explains how she really learned something in California. What exactly that was we don't really know, but it was fun watching the scantily clad ladies. The 3-D sequences worked reasonably well on my 20" TV set but when I checked them out on the bigger set, they weren't as effective for some reason and I had to sit perfectly centered in front of the TV for them to work – but once I did that they worked well.

Feature #2 – Too Hot To Handle (1950): This second feature is essentially a feature length burlesque compilation. Some comedians with cute but dated material are spliced into the set between the hip shaking hotties that do their thing. Dixie Evans and Patti Waggin (got to love that name!) are two of the girls in this piece. If you're not a burlesque fan this set may be tedious as there isn't a whole lot of variety here but I can watch this stuff all day and never get tired of it so I found it to be pretty enjoyable material.

Video:

Everything is fullframe here, which is how I would assume it was all shot. Video quality is decent, but not great. There is some compression evident in a few spots, and I'm sure the fact that there's so much material crammed onto these two discs may have had something to do with that. Plenty of grain, mild print damage, scratches, splices, etc., but it all looks good enough and really, did we expect perfect video quality for a release consisting of old stripper films?