''Deadly Weapons'' is a 1974 American

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directed and produced by

Doris Wishman Doris Wishman (June 1, 1912 August 10, 2002) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. She is credited with having directed and produced at least 30 feature films during a career spanning over four decades, most notably in the ...

. It stars

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performer Chesty Morgan and

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Plot

Crystal is an advertising executive who tracks down the mobsters who killed her boyfriend. One by one, she seduces each man, drugs them, then smothers them with her huge breasts. At the end, she finds out that her own father was implicated in her lover's death before being fatally shot in the chest by her father and turning her own gun on her father, killing him.

In popular culture

A clip from the film is featured in

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's ''

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''. In 1986, Waters told

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about visiting the

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Sequel

'' Double Agent 73'', also directed by Wishman, is an ostensible

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to ''Deadly Weapons''.

Cast

* Zsa Zsa as Crystal * Harry Reemes as Tony * Greg Reynolds as Larry * Saul Meth as Nick /

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* Phillip Stahl as Crystal's father * Mitchell Fredericks as Captain Hook * Denise Purcell as Eve * John McMohon

Sources

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External links

* 1974 films 1974 drama films American drama films 1970s English-language films Films directed by Doris Wishman American sexploitation films 1970s American films {{exploitation-film-stub