King Leer's 1965 mechanized Mojave melodrama follows a savage cycle gang, led by crazed Vietnam vet Steve Oliver (The Naked Zoo), who meet their match in an aggrieved veterinarian (Alex Rocco from The Godfather in his first film). Also featuring Russ Meyer regular Haji in a meaty role as a vengeful widow. Meyer would return later that year with the superior and better known Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
This 1971 white coater benefited from the carnal contributions of a cast that would become better known in the post-"educational" phase of hardcore porn features. Rene Bond, Ric Lutze, the Sandys Dempsey and Carey, and Suzanne Fields ("Dale Ardor" from Flesh Gordon) are counseled by a sex therapist (busy character actor John Dullaghan, who had previously appeared in the similar Postgraduate Course In Sexual Love). Within the year, co-director Eric Jeffrey Haims had also given us The Jeckyll and Hyde Portfolio.
Watch out, ladies: a smitten lesbian may be inducing your dating service to set you up with johns and perverts to make you turn queer. At least that's the head-scratching scenario of writer/director Joseph Jacoby's first feature, 1969's Shame, Shame, Everybody Knows Her Name, which features Karen Carlson (Fleshburn) as the object of lady lust and "Getti" Miller as the Sapphic seducer. Also with Dennis Johnson from television's Dark Shadows and John Career Bed Cardoza as pervs, with an appearance by Rita Bennett as (surprise!) a go-go dancer and the late character actor Vic Vallaro as a deranged antiques dealer. Jacoby later wrote, directed, and starred in the 2008 made-for-television documentary A Case Of Mistaken Identity? in which he sought to use DNA science to uncover his unidentified father.
From Amin Q. Chaudhri, the Punjabi director and cinematographer whose move to Los Angeles in the mid-sixties resulted in sexploitation fodder, though his unrealized pet project was an adaptation of Finnegan's Wake, comes The Love Generation (1967) and its profile of a wealthy hedonist and his movie camera.
In this lost 1967 softcore spectacular from Dore Productions, the only film from its director, Abe Lutz, private detective Johnny Mustang, played by, uh, "Johnny Mustang," is hired by a shifty attorney Stompano (Spiros Hatzes) to trail femme fatale Rena Davis, played by "Rena Davis." The path leads to a Nazi plot, sadomasochism, and bad acting. Website imdb.com humorously states this was made in 1961.
Actor Robert Hossein (Rififi) made his directorial debut with the 1955 Les bastards vont en enfer (Bastards Go To Hell), a grim and gritty tale of escaped convicts and their hostages. That one of those hostages is Marina "The Body" Vlady provided Hossein with an exploitable element, as can be seen in the campaign.
Before Megalopolis there was Tonight For Sure (1962), an oddball western nudie that's considered Francis Ford Coppola's first feature though co-written and co-directed by an uncredited Jerry Schafer (Like It Is). With Karl Schanzer from Spider Baby, Janet Leigh body double Marli Renfro (Psycho), and Virginia Gordon from Hot Spur. The same year Coppola tinkered with a 1958 German sex comedy, resulting in the lamentable The Bellboy And The Playgirls with June Wilkinson.
Former RAF flying ace Barry Mahon alerts grindhouse audiences to the dangers of hippie pads in this retitling of his grim 1968 feature Prowl Girls. With Sue Akers (Trailer Camp Sex Ring) and Kristen Blowdry Steen. Currently missing under either title.
Ron Baker (Wade Nichols from "The Edge Of Night") has a problem: an obsession with his teenage niece has led him to lust after underage girls. Directed by the late Carter (Punk Rock) Stevens, Jailbait features the under-appreciated Tina Lynn as the babysitter who instigates Ron's downfall, Sharon Mitchell (Wanda Whips Wall Street) as Ron's lesbian wife, Herschel Savage from Debbie Does Dallas, and Sexual Freedom In The Ozarks star Eric Edwards as the "Groundskeeper." Not a remake of the Ed Wood movie with the same title.
Former child star Russ Tamblyn, miles away from West Side Story, is Anchor, the aphorism-spouting leader of the titular cycle gang in this coarse cheapie from the inimitable Al Adamson. It also starred stuntman/actor Gary Kent (The Black Klansman), Lawrence Tierney's brother Scott Brady (Johnny Guitar), filmmakers Greydon Clark ("Acid") and "Bud" Cardos ("Firewater"), and Adamson's missus, "Freak Out Girl" Regina Carroll, as Anchor's neglected moll. With Bambi Allen (Linda and Abilene) as a geology student.
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