Maraschino Cherry

Director: Radley Metzger

1977 / 93min / DCP

“Borscht Belt sketch-comedy porn. A thinly plotted ‘loop carrier’ assembled largely from leftover scenes from The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976) and Barbara Broadcast (1977), Maraschino Cherry sees Metzger make good on his stated aspiration to imbue sex films with Jewish humor. It was also Metzger’s last outing as Henry Paris; after all, as one character puts it, ‘We all have our crosses to schlep.’” —Rob King, series curator, film historian and author of Man of Taste: The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger

Introduction by Rob King and Ashley West, writer and founder of The Rialto Report on Saturday, April 25th

Part of The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger: Restorations