C.B. Mamas Review

Distributor: Mitchell Brothers Film Group Edition Details: Standard Streaming/Download Movie Specs: Genres: Golden Age Classic, Feature Film Run Time: 56 minutes Rated: X Release Year: 1976 Director: Jim Mitchell (as James Mitchell), Artie Mitchell Written by: Billy Boyer Cast: Lesllie Bovee (as Leslie Bovee), Justine Taylor (as Sally Foremost), Melissa Cooke, Jon Martin (as Bill Eastman), Buck Lacey, Desiree West (as Pat Lee), Cherie Mills, Rushka, Al Russo (as Al Savino), Joey Silvera (as Joey Sivera), Paul Thomas Release Specs: Audio: English Mono Subtitles: none Video: Full Frame, 1.37:1 Video Format: NTSC Format: Streaming/Download Regional Code (for DVD/Blu-ray): N/A Number of discs: N/A

C.B. Mamas is the return to feature films, if you can consider C.B. Mamas to be a feature film, for the Mitchell Brothers Film Group after their massive commercial failure Sodom and Gomorrah: The Last Seven Days. After Sodom and Gomorrah: The Last Seven Days crashed and burned, the Mitchell brothers turned to making Ultrakore, a porn depreciating loop series, to show at the O'Farrell Theatre. C.B. Mamas was the brothers' return to the feature film market, however, C.B. Mamas is essentially nothing more than a collection of loops loosely tied together.

C.B. Mamas doesn't have a narrative arc that ties the film together, instead, it just has a premise which is that a group of bored housewives use a CB radio to seek out sex partners while their husbands are away at work. After the set-up, the film just becomes a series of sex scenes, one after another, until the narrative pops back in at the end to complete the bookend the film.

The sex scenes are mediocre; there isn't anything overly great nor anything overly horrible about them. Some of the scenes attempt to create a narrative but, honestly, none of it fits together well. For instance, The Milklady (Justine Taylor) purports to be Leslie's (Lesllie Bovee) daughter who wants to have fun too but she is lactating, which is made a big part of the sex scene and doesn't fit at all with the narrative. Honestly, this film would have been better staying a series of vignettes with a better lead for each one than trying to make it a coherent singular project.

C.B. Mamas is a huge drop in quality for the Mitchell Brothers Film Group. Anyone who has seen Jim and Artie Mitchell's earlier works knows they are capable of so much more than this. C.B. Mamas feels like the Mitchell's have returned to their loop roots than continuing their feature film empire — but aren't quite willing to admit it.

The edition of C.B. Mamas screened is the streaming and the downloadable version available, as of the time of writing, exclusively from HotMovies. Mitchell Brothers Film Group has done a horrible job with their streaming and the downloadable version of C.B. Mamas. C.B. Mamas was shot on film and is presented in the academy aspect ratio of 1.37:1 in standard definition. Mitchell Brothers Film Group clearly used a video master for this release, likely an old VHS tape with a definition of 250i. The image looks horrible and is essentially bootleg quality with a serious lack of definition and glitches in the video. There are places where there are large and obvious pixels during the presentation and places where there were tracking issues on the VHS. The colors in the film look washed out. Overall, this is a horrible video presentation.

C.B. Mamas is presented with an English monaural audio track. The audio isn't in much better shape than the video is. The audio has distortion at the beginning of the film and a hiss and a hum present throughout the presentation. There are also pops and crackles present during the presentation. The dialog in the film can be understood during the presentation.

Mitchell Brothers Film Group hasn't included any extras for this release.

C.B. Mamas is more of an all sex film, or maybe a vignette film if one is being generous, than a feature film that is completely mediocre in all aspects. There is nothing spectacular about the film nor is there anything horrific about the film. The video and the audio quality of the Mitchell Brothers Film Group streaming and the downloadable version is subpar and barely considered watchable.

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