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Calm down, it's just the name of the Caracas nightclub in Alberto Dubois' drama of dope and depravity starring shapely Argentine sexploitation star Libertad Leblanc (Violated Love) as Mara, an exotic dancer who runs afoul of a drug syndicate-cum-slavery racket led by Alex (Néstor Zavarce from the 1952 Cornell Woolrich adaptation If I Should Die Before I Wake). Released at home as Acosada, it was salaciously retitled for U.S. screenings by Cambist Films, who also added inserts featuring New York's own June Roberts (Take Me Naked) to the film's existing nude scenes.
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Filmed in the Republic of Suriname, the 1974 rape/revenge cheapie Operation Makonaima from director Ramdjan Abdoelrahman was picked up by U.S. exploitation specialists 21st Century Film Distribution, dubbed into English, and released in 1977 as The Obsessed One with a campaign that misleadingly suggested supernatural shenanigans that never materialize.
British glamour and fetish photographer and prolific nudie filmmaker George Harrison Marks (Naked As Nature Intended) appeared as himself and his (fictional) ancestors in this taxing 1969 nudie cutie in which Marks, from a psychiatrist's couch, traces his lineage's curse of "feminophobia." The nine skimpy skits feature June Palmer from Taste the Blood of Dracula, Benny Hill Show alumnus Sue Bizarre Bond, Julian Orchard from the "Carry On" series, and Howard Nelson (also in Marks' banned-in-the-U.K. Fornicon). Narrated by Charles Gray from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Manson Films handled distribution in the U.S. the following year.
The first feature from loony Larry Crane (1969's All Women Are Bad), the 1967 Julie Is No Angel is an early starring vehicle for Sharon Kent, later of Doris Wishman's inscrutable Indecent Desires (1968). Kent is the title character, a promiscuous teen who, rejected and abused - not to mention whipped - by the men she encounters, falls into prostitution. Her final reel Sir Galahad, smitten film producer John Dixon, is played by Peter Bradford, also in Crane's subsequent feature The Devil In Velvet. Co-starring busy Janet Anything For Money Banzet and Barbara Wood from Rent-a-Girl (1965) as Dixon's predatory casting director.
Released as Daddy's Deadly Darling but originally filmed as The 13th Pig, actor Marc Key Largo Wallace's porcine horror from 1973 was his second and final attempt at directing feature films. Writer/producer/director Wallace also starred as café proprietor and former showman Zambrini, who takes in a psychotic runaway (portrayed by real-life daughter Toni Lawrence) to help feed his flesh-eating pigs. Also with Jesse Vint from Macon County Line, Iris White Lightning Korn, and Walter Barnes from Italian westerns and peplum. In addition to the retitled Pigs, several other versions were released with additional scenes unrelated to the original feature.
New York-based sound editor Anton Holden (Return to Horror High) cut his filmmaking teeth directing exploitation features, the most memorable being his first, 1966's noir-ish Aroused. His second outing, the grim Cargo of Love, attempted to breathe new life into the silent era genre cliché of forced prostitution, but Olga's Girls it ain't despite a reliable cast including Sheila Britt (Come Ride the Wild Pink Horse), Sam Too Much, Too Often Stewart, Richard B. Shull from Spring Break, Stigma's Jean Parker, Janet Banzet from A Thousand Pleasures, gal about town Rita Bennett (Too Much, Too Often!), skinflint producer Charles Abrams (Commuter Game) as an FBI agent, and an uncredited appearance by future porn star Angelique Pettyjohn (Titillation). It was also the debut of soap star Gloria Irizarry (Fort Apache the Bronx).
Sunshine State skin star Christy Foushee (Blood Feast) and the suggestively named Yanka Mann (Flesh Feast) lead a mostly unknown cast in this Floridian fable about four women whose shared Miami Beach holiday leads to burlesque, a shipwreck, and cavorting with gangsters. Also with future soap star Bob Lee, Monroe Myers from Adam Lost His Apple, Havana-born female impersonator Kismet, and the initial film appearance of blonde Bobbi Shaw (The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini) from the "beach party" movies as "Miss Miami Rendezvous." Filmed among the fossilized mangroves in Key Biscayne's Crandon Park, with interiors shot in Miami Beach's Barcelona Hotel (now the Four Points).
Mighty Monarch of Exploitation David F. Friedman (She-Freak) and Peter Perry, Jr. (Knockers Up) co-produced this soft core yarn with a plot that picks up where the Bible left off. Lucifer (Christopher Stone from Ride, Mister?) sends Old Testament harlot Jezebel (Luanne Trader Hornee Roberts) on a mission from Hell to Earth to bring back a virgin soul (Tobacco Roody's Dixie Donovan). Also with Johnny Rocco (The Exotic Dreams of Casanova), Jay Agony of Love Edwards, Lois Ursone from Two Roses and a Golden Rod, and Alice Friedland (The Adventures of Flash Beaver). No discounts to church groups were offered during its initial screening.
The sole feature from Don Dorsey, the currently unavailable Love and Kisses featured Russ Meyer favorite Charles Napier (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls) as Paul, the husband of hot-to-trot housewife Cheri (Kathy Knight, simultaneously introduced and bade farewell), a blatant rehash of lascivious Erica Gavin from 1968's Vixen. Cheri's carnal conquests include Russian-born Rutanya Alda (Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye) and future porn director Paul Hungry Holes Norman as her married in-laws. Also with some uncredited schmo as a sleazy former fuck mate and a "thrilling snowmobile chase" with a "flaming, screaming finale!" Filmed in frosty Aroostook County, Maine with an original score composed by the late Phil "Twist and Shout" Medley. Distribution was handled by Meyer's own Eve Productions. Not to be confused with the 1965 Ozzie Nelson film of the same title.
Anthony Cardoza produced this cinematic ZZZ-Quil© about a payroll-heisting biker gang led by "Waco" (Elvis' bodyguard Bryan West from the rape/revenge saga The Animals) and his sidekick Chuck (William Angels' Wild Women Bonner). Also with Bambi Allen (Terror At Orgy Castle) and Al Adamson veteran Jennifer Blood Of Ghastly Horror Bishop as biker mamas, and featuring diminutive actor and stuntman Jerry Maren from the bikers vs. Sasquatch curio Bigfoot (1970) as a bartender. It's the only directorial credit for John Huston's son Tony, who shifted from writing and appearing in cheapo Larry Buchanan films such as Zontar: The Thing From Venus to adapting James Joyce's The Dead (1987) for his dad.
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