"She climbed a ladder of lovers into a lap of luxury!" Woolner Brothers issued this 1959 German melodrama (aka Love Now, Pay Later) based on the true story of high-class prostitute Rosemarie Nitribitt, whose violent 1957 murder led to scandal with the discovery of a list of her well-heeled clients. Though she's poorly dubbed, Brit export Belinda Lee (The Runaway Bus) is terrific as Rosemarie. Also with Walter Rilla from the Lee Van Cleef western Day of Anger and Karl Lieffen (Rudy, the Racing Pig). Cinematography was by Kubrick veteran Georg Krause (Paths of Glory). Nitribitt's sad story yielded a novel, radio plays, four other films, and a musical entitled "The Girl Rosemarie."

Three-time NASCAR champion Bob Welborn produced and directed this 1965 "beach" movie that follows an amateur cast through episodic teenage misadventures interspersed with performances by Orlando's The Offbeets, whose sole 45 rpm now goes for three figures, and the great Del Shannon with "Runaway."  Featuring local hopeful Rayna along with Sue Skeen, 1963's "Miss New York State." It was a money-maker throughout the southeast for drive-ins and its distributor, Dominant Pictures of the Carolinas (Six Shes and A He), though is largely forgotten today.

Horse opera movie producer/director Ron Ormond (Outlaw Women) was tasked by Howco Productions to complete an unfinished sci-fi feature by German businessman and bold fabricator Herbert von Schoellenbach. The result was 1953's Mesa of Lost Women, with future Uncle Fester Jackie Coogan as a deranged scientist who transforms spiders into dancing women. Also with hot-headed Allan Nixon (Prehistoric Women), Richard Travis from Blonde Bait, "tarantula girl" Tandra Quinn (Problem Girls), and nutty narration by prolific character actor Lyle Talbot (Trapped by Television). The maddening faux-flamenco soundtrack was by Downey, California's Hoyt Curtin, who later spent decades writing themes for Hanna-Barbera cartoons.

Backsliding producer Albert Zugsmith (Top Banana) wrote and directed this 1966 curio supposedly inspired by German psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing, portrayed here by real-life shrink Dr. Lee Gladden (Zugsmith's The Incredible Sex Revolution). Opening with the violent actions of mama's boy Stephen Long (Ronald Warren, also in The Incredible Sex Revolution), Zugsmith then swerves to the Phaedra complex cooking between promiscuous teen Melissa (Sandra Lynn from Movie Star American Style or; LSD, I Hate You) and her fucked-up father (songwriter Ric Marlow from The All American Hustler). Also in consideration is Melissa's cougar mom (television's Barbara Hines), too busy exhausting her daughter's boyfriends to notice paternal abuse. But wait, there's also belly dancing by Pat Barrington (The Agony of Love) as a welcome breather from facile impersonations of Krafft-Ebing case studies. Zugsmith, far from his days producing Orson Welles, capped his directorial days with the bizarre 1975 "roughie" Violated! starring porn queen Rene Bond.

Cult filmmaker Richard Hilliard (Violent Midnight) co-wrote and directed this dour 1959 tale about an unnamed young outcast (future soap star Karl Light) who stalks and then kidnaps a psychiatrist's young daughter (Jean Evans in her only film role). Light's character is contrasted with creepy voyeur Ben Brown (Carl Collyer), whose status as boarder enables him to ogle Evans under her father's nose. Though the script begs sympathy for the misguided stalker while condemning the socially accepted sleazeball, the campaign was obviously intended to appeal to an audience of Ben Browns.

In 1961 New York film distributor William Mishkin issued a dubbed crime drama from Argentine genre director Carlos Rinaldi with an added Biblical wraparound featuring former Hollywood western star Bill Kennedy (I Died A Thousand Times) and Alice Gardner (her only credit) as original fun couple Adam and Eve. Rinaldi's Argentine cast included Carlos Cores (The Woman and the Beast) along with Eduardo Cuitiño and Golde Flami from León Klimovsky's 1950 The Marihuana Story.

Florida-based film distributor K. Gordon Murray, the poor man's Walt Disney, spun matinee gold by dubbing cheaply-purchased genre films from Mexico and elsewhere and then promoting them with nonstop ballyhoo such as offering patrons "blood" cocktails. This package from 1968 was comprised of two Mexican-made tales of terror. Originally titled Muñecos Infernales, 1961's The Curse of the Doll People was directed by the prolific Benito Alazraki (Santo vs the Zombies) and starred Ramón Gay (The Robot vs the Aztec Mummy) and pulchritudinous star of Spanish-language musicals, Elvira Quintana. It was co-billed with 1957's The Vampire, aka El Vampiro, which featured Germán Robles (Neutron Battles the Karate Assassins) as the titular bloodsucker and Abel The Braniac Salazar as his nemesis Dr. Enrique.

Joel Bloodsucking Freaks Reed's rambling 1971 spy adventure was filmed in the Philippines and Singapore with U.S. actors including future porn star Angelique Pettyjohn (Stalag 69), Victoria Racimo from The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart, Janet Wood (Angels Hard As They Come), and television actor Tom Keena. This, Reed's third feature film, includes the song "Wit's End"by Elliott Chiprut and is noted for its nude shootout. It was reissued as Dragon Lady and The G.I. Executioner.

"He gave his life rather than bend to the yoke of tyranny!" Prolific B-movie director R.G. Springsteen took a break from horse operas for this 1949 anti-Communist propaganda film issued at the dawn of McCarthyism. A disillusioned American soldier (Robert Rockwell) is lured into joining the U.S. Communist Party only to learn that abandoning his new comrades is not an option. German-born Hanna Axmann-Rezzori is love interest Nina, while Chattanooga's Betty Lou Gerson, who the following year would narrate Walt Disney's Cinderella, is "Yvonne, a power-hungry, psychopathic, love-starved woman of destruction." Also with Barbra Fuller (The Roommates) and Leo Cleary from State Penitentiary as fearless Father Leary.

This is Andy Milligan's 1967 The Naked Witch under a reissue title intended to deemphasize the horror angle. It starred LaMama Troupe member Beth Porter (Futz) as the witch/temptress, and also featured Milligan regulars Maggie Rogers (Seeds of Sin) and Torture Dungeon's Hal Borske along with Robert Burgos (The Degenerates) and Lee The Promiscuous Sex Forbes. It's currently unavailable under either title.