Apparently Honky Tonk Nights represents an attempt by a group of pornographers to make a legit flick for the drive-in circuit, which goes a long way toward explaining the abysmal acting, ghastly filmmaking, and plentiful female nudity. There’s a plot of sorts buried amid the smut and the aimless filler scenes, but coherence and purpose are not the watchwords here. Honky Tonk Nights follows several threads connected to a country-music bar, and the festivities begin when singer Dolly Pop (Serena) gets cranky after being shorted one too many times on her performance fees at the establishment, which is operated by Georgia (Georgina Spelvin). Soon Dolly’s bandmates recruit a replacement singer, absurdly buxom Belle Barnette (Carol Doda), but Belle gets heckled during her fist gig by drunks who expect her to strip onstage. Meanwhile, another young woman vaguely connected to the main plot endures romantic travails with an unfaithful boyfriend trying to make a living as a daredevil auto racer, and country star Bill Garvey (played by real-life musical luminary Ramblin’ Jack Elliott) appears just in time to provide career opportunities for busty striver Belle. All of the events just described comprise perhaps one-third of the movie’s scant 70 minutes—the remainder of the deeply boring flick showcases brawls, hang-out scenes, and, of course, needlessly prolonged sex scenes. As for the country tunes that fill nearly every moment of the soundtrack, it should come as no surprise that they’re wholly unimpressive, arguably notwithstanding Elliott’s sloppy live rendition of the enduring religious song “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?”
Honky Tonk Nights: LAME
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