Campus Cutups of 1969

"See that guy over there?" whispers one frat man to another. "He scored 50 times before he was a sophomore." The object of this muted envy is an undergraduate operator named Paxton Quigley, who conducts a personal course in concupiscence. Quigley cracks feminine reserve the way a grind cracks books--with a dedication that borders on frenzy. Yet, according to a breezy little movie called 3 in the Attic, he is also a prime target for a fate worse than dearth.

Putting a cursory make on a lovely blonde English major named Tobey (Yvette Mimieux), Quigley (Christopher Jones) finds a pleasant way to spend his summer vacation. When the fall term arrives, however, his libido is once again diverted. While still dating Tobey, Quigley also beds a beautiful black fox named Eulice (Judy Pace). Commuting on his Yamaha between Tobey and Eulice, he meets Jan (Maggie Thrett), a freaked-out flower child who tempts him with "magic brownies" and wins his heart by asking, "Do you think it's possible to be Jewish and psychedelic at the same time?"

Sleazy Charm. Tobey, of course, discovers Quigley's triplicity and decides to punish him with overindulgence. The three girls imprison Quigley in the attic of their dorm and proceed to visit him, one every hour. After endless days of lovemaking, with only an occasional rare steak or cup of yogurt to keep up his energy, Paxton is finally sprung from the attic and manages to tell Tobey what she wants to hear: the reasons for his capricious infidelity.

If there is little subtlety in the plot, there is even less in its telling. Yet Attic's unabashed vulgarity has a certain sleazy charm, and Producer-Director Richard Wilson manages an occasional telling glimpse of current campus life styles. The abilities of the Misses Pace and Thrett are less apparent when they open their mouths than when they take off their clothes, but Jones and Mimieux actually manage to bring an air of wounded innocence to their roles. Jones has an unhappy tendency to recite many of his lines with a kind of Method fidget, but he could yet become one of the better young actors in Hollywood. As Tobey, Yvette Mimieux uses her doe-eyed vulnerability to maximum effect. Her fragile beauty could reduce any ethics professor to acute schizophrenia and radicalize the entire student body of Southern Methodist University.

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