Eve And The Handyman

The film stars Eve Meyer and Anthony-James Ryan. The film was released on May 5, 1961, by Pad-Ram Enterprises.

Eve and the Handyman
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Russ Meyer
Written by	Russ Meyer
Produced by	Russ Meyer
Starring	Eve Meyer Anthony-James Ryan
Cinematography	Russ Meyer
Edited by	Russ Meyer
Production company	Eve Productions
Distributed by	Pad-Ram Enterprises
Release date	May 5, 1961 (1961-05-05)
Running time	65 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

It was Meyer's follow up to The Immoral Mr. Teas, which had been very successful.

Eve is dressed in a long raincoat and follows the handyman around as he makes his appointed rounds. She watches as he has humorous run-ins while cleaning toilets, taking scrap metal to the dump, cleaning windows, delivering a tree, climbing poles, and remaining a gentleman while trying to help a topless hitchhiker. But why is she watching him so carefully?

• Eve Meyer as Eve
• Anthony-James Ryan as The Handyman
• Frank Bolger
• Iris Bristol

The female lead, Eve Meyer, was Russ Meyer's wife. It was the only film of his she starred in although she was heavily involved behind the scenes on most of his early films. She did her own hair and make up and cooked for the crew. "I never worked so hard in my life," she said later.

The film's male lead, Anthony-James Ryan, was Russ Meyer's right hand man. The film was shot in San Francisco over a month in 1960. Ryan recalled, Eve typed the script, it wasn't even a script, just a list of ideas. That's all we had to work with. I improvised some of the stuff." Ryan also assisted in production.

Meyer says there was a crew of four - Russ Myer, his assistant, Eve Meyer and Ryan.

Ryan met his future wife, Jacqueline Stevens, while making the film. She played a nude model.

According to Roger Ebert, the film grossed nearly a million dollars.

Ebert also wrote "One of the most interesting scenes in the movie has Eve dancing in a low-cut dress while playing a pinball machine: the rhythm and cutting suggest sexual intercourse, and the scene has a nice balance between eroticism and humor. A frequent Meyer turnabout theme – the desirable woman who is rejected by the undesirable man – turns up in Eve in a hitchhiking scene. Unable to get a lift, Eve takes off one garment after another, still with no success."