Weekend with the Babysitter

Weekend with the Babysitter original movie poster.

The babysitter fantasy comes back to life in this early 1970 classic flick which would be the sequel to the original 1969 Babysitter, produced and starred once again by Mr. George E. Carey. This flick is a classic in its own right, Weekend with the Babysitter captured the 1970's scene both the good and bad stuff going on and I mean clothes,  music, drugs, parties, and the summmer of love generation. Susan Romen is perfect as a 70's teenager who is just one of many girls of her generation playing with a certain naive rebellion. Her beautiful innocents leads her into seducing a married man and making him see how much he truly loves his wife. For this sequel Romen replaces Patricia Wylmer in the role of Candy Wilson, AKA, the Babysitter.

Despite the suggestive title, and the fact that it was produced by the wonderful Crown-International Pictures (masters in sleazy drive-in movies)

To start with, the movie's male character is not a typical dirty old man who has a thing for lolitas. He's actually ok from early on. It is stated on several scenes of the movie that his marriage is in trouble, and apparently the one to blame for is his wife. Then when he subsequently meets with Candy Wilson (the babysitter you dummi) who is willing to teach him about the way young people hangs out, talk and behave, something that Mr. Jim Carlton finds quite appealing to help him on the production of the final storyboard of the latest flick he's been asked to produce, so it's nothing like Mr Carlton finds the willing teen and starts boning her immediately. In fact that's what makes this movie better in comparison with the prequel, you know, there are more believable scenes that lead to the romance in opposition to the prequel where Candy wanted to be boned all the time at no effort by the main character.

Babysitting done 70's style.

Also a pleasant surprise is how our lead role deals with the babysitter circle of friends. He doesn't talk down to them, in fact he seems to be genuinely interested in their activities. Also pleasing is that these same young people don't seem to have a problem with him being much older than them. They are very friendly to him, and gladly teach him of his ways which is a very good thing for the plot line that doesn't just go straight to the inevitable nudity and sex scenes.

In fact, the movie is actually very dialogue-driven for its first half, giving you a sense of a high quality of written material from which the movie came. 

Mona Carlton will do what it takes for dope.

The movie is probably far from being a masterpiece; the last hour has boring bits which are felt as fillers and there seems to be no clear resolution between Mr. Carlton, the babysitter and his wife but still, the topics depicted here are quite interesting, and described in a moderate fashion to give the viewer the chance to decide who's good, who's bad and who's ugly. Mr Carlton, somehow, represents the "good" in the film, as he is nothing but a naive husband who's been living a frozen relationship with his wife for too long. He needs to see and experience the world, he needs to feel alive again and that's where Candy Wilson delivers. She is not that naive, what she wants she gets, and she's groovy enough to teach Carlton how do new generations get the kicks. On the other side, there's Mona Carlton a sexually absent wife (despite being a bombshell herself) who secretly spends his husband's money in coke & heroine. She doesn't seem to care about reclaiming her marriage and instead prefers to spend her days with drug dealers. Mona hits rock bottom easily and gets involved into a drug smuggling deal that will lead her to more suffering (including begging for a heroine shot & getting involved in lesbian sex) it is this twisted reality that drives Mr. Carlton into Candy Wilson and her friends. Nevertheless by the time he decides to go back for her wife, Candy doesn't seem to care and it's more than ok with it despite the fact they spend a whole weekend fucking like mad. The reasons behind Mr. Carlton going back to her wife are not explained though...

Overall, quite an entertaining piece with bikers, chicks, teenage sex, junkies, pot and lots of good ol' rock music.

Here's the movie trailer:



and here the entire film for your viewing pleasure courtesy of the public domain right: