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{{film|Deadly Weapons|style=infobox}}
'''''Deadly Weapons''''' is a 1974 film directed by [[Doris Wishman]] and starring [[Chesty Morgan]].<ref>Infobox data from {{cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/12508|title=DEADLY WEAPONS (1974)|accessdate=August 11, 2008|publisher=[http://www.bfi.org.uk/ British Film Institute]|language=English}}, release month and runtime from {{imdb title|id=0069952}}</ref>
==Synopsis==
[[Chesty Morgan]] (still using her previous stage name, Zsa Zsa) plays the role of Crystal. Crystal avenges her police snitch boyfriend's execution by his fellow mobsters. Since the mobsters didn't know her, she can approach each of them anonymously and seduce him into taking her to his room. Once there, she drugs the victim and uses his dazed state to smother him to death with her huge breasts. Eventually, her own father betrays her and they shoot each other to death.
==Cast==
* Chesty Morgan - Crystal Davies<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/12508|title=DEADLY WEAPONS (1974)|accessdate=August 11, 2008|publisher=[http://www.bfi.org.uk/ British Film Institute]|language=English}}</ref>
* Harry Reems - Tony
* Greg Reynolds
* Saul Meth
* Phillip Stahl
* Mitchell Fredericks
* Denise Purcell
* John Mcmokon
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==Critical reception==
[[Image:deadly_weapons.jpg|200px|thumb|left|[[Chesty Morgan]] in ''Deadly Weapons'' (1974)]]
A contemporary Boston reviewer criticized Morgan's "lethargic" performance and characterized her as "pretty close to a zombie." The review continued, "It's obvious that Chesty... can't act," and summarized her performance techniques as, "she makes contortions with her mouth, she talks in 3 word sentences, and she fondles herself a lot."

The reviewer was also critical of Morgan's physical appearance, writing, "The skin on her chest was translucent and she had a bulging vein on the inside of her left breast. Her derriere was flabby and saggy." Nor did the reviewer find the costumes used in the film to his approval. "All she wore was frilly scoop neck shirts and frilly v-neck shirts that did not enhance the lure of her chest."

The review ended by noting that Morgan's genitalia are never exposed in the film, "a fact that has led to some nasty rumors that, perhaps. Chesty is really a man... I mean, you gotta have a strong back to carry around all that excess weight!"<ref name="Half-Elf">{{cite news |last=Half-Elf|title=Hefty Cleavage Does More Than Fill Custom-Made Bra|work=The Mass Media (Boston, Massachussetts)|publisher= |page=12|date=April 25, 1974}}</ref>

Drive-in goers in Elyria, Ohio could choose from two screens showing ''Deadly Weapons'' in April 1975, one of them offering 1,000 "Chesty Morgan" calendars, one per car.<ref name="Lorain and Aut-O-Rama">{{cite news |title=Lorain Drive In Theater and Aut-O-Rama Twin Drive-In Theater ads|work=Chronicle Telegram (Elyria, Ohio)|publisher= |page=16|date=April 25, 1975}}</ref> The first 200 cars in Nashua, New Hampshire's Tyngsboro Drive-In's showing of ''Deadly Weapons'' got the calendar.<ref name="Tyngsboro Drive-In">{{cite news |title=Tyngsboro Drive-In Deadly Weapons ad|work=Nashua Telegraph (Nashua, New Hampshire)|publisher= |page=46|date=April 10, 1974}}</ref>

==Availability==
[[Image:Deadly Weapons - DVD cover.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Cover to the 2000 ''Something Weird Video'' DVD release]]
''Deadly Weapons'' is currently available on two DVD releases. Image Entertainment / Something Weird Video released the film as a solo feature on June 27, 2000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Weapons-Chesty-Morgan/dp/630587123X/|title=Deadly Weapons (1974)|accessdate=August 10, 2008|publisher=Amazon.com|language=English}}</ref> On February 13, 2007, the company re-relased the DVD paired with [[Chesty Morgan]] and [[Doris Wishman]]'s other film together, ''[[Double Agent 73]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000KGGZW6/|title=Deadly Weapons/Double Agent 73 (1974)|accessdate=August 10, 2008|publisher=Amazon.com]|language=English}}</ref>
[[Image:Double Agent-Deadly Weapons-DVD.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Cover to the DVD release with ''[[Double Agent 73]]'']]

==Reviews==
* {{cite news |last=Half-Elf|title=Hefty Cleavage Does More Than Fill Custom-Made Bra|work=The Mass Media (Boston Massachussetts)|publisher= |page=12|date=April 25, 1974}}
==Bibliography==
* ''CinemaTV Today'' (September 28, 1974) n. 10102, p. 13.
* {{cite web |first=Todd|last=Doogan|url=http://www.thedigitalbits.com/reviews2/chestymorgan.html|title=Chesty Morgan on DVD|date=February 2, 2001|accessdate=August 10, 2008|publisher=[http://www.thedigitalbits.com/ www.thedigitalbits.com]|language=English}}
* ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' (August 1975), v. 42 n. 499, p. 189.
* ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' (November 1974) v. 41 n. 490, p. 249.

==References==
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