Though a dubbed and re-edited version had already played the U.S. as Sweet Smell Of Love, producer William Rowland (The Psycho Lover) got his hands on Edward Dein (Shack Out On 101) and Ubaldo The Last Man On Earth Ragona's 1966 Italian/German production Una vergine per une bastardo, haphazardly inserted soft core sex scenes (one featuring sixties' suburban siren Marsha Jordan), slapped on a meaningless new title, and shuffled it out with a ridiculous campaign comparing its unknown star to Hollywood's leading men. Diamond thief and murderer Philip (Bruno Piergentili from Seven Pistols For A Gringo) seduces naive cantina owner Carmencita, played by Marisa Solinas from Ferdinando Baldi's Blindman, and then vanishes from her life. Also known as From Woman To Woman To Woman.

Alberto Dubois' 1962 crime drama La flor de Irupé introduced shapely Argentine sex symbol and Isabel Sarli competitor Libertad Leblanc (El satánico) to cinematic thrill seekers worldwide, and also starred Hector Pellegrini (The Loves of Kafka) and Mario Casado from Armando Bo's Fievre. The steamy script ties together a tale of desperate bank robbers with a folk legend about a naked swamp ghost (Leblanc). Despite the star baring her ample anatomy in the Argentine original, the dubbed 1966 U.S. version of this black and white dermatological drama, now entitled Love Hunger, amped up the skin factor with color inserts featuring a nude flashback scene. The following year Dubois delivered The Pink Pussy: Where Sin Lives, also with the libidinous Leblanc.

Definitely not television's "Golden Girls." Directed by Passion Holiday producer Irwin Meyer, the 1964 Honeymoon of Horror scoped a screwy sculptor whose new wife can't help but notice the mutilated bodies piling up around her. The Miami-made murder mystery was later reissued with the title seen here and nude inserts of New York's own Gigi Darlene. With Monroe Myers from Adam Lost His Apple, Christy Foushee (It's Hot On SIn Island), and Shanty Tramp writer Reuben Guberman. Writer and actor Alexander Panas had previously co-starred in the 1963 Key West Cuban refugee cheapie Escape From Hell Island from actor Mark Stevens (Frozen Alive).

The first feature film from even-tempered soft porn director Don Edmonds (Ilsa, She-Wolf of the S.S.), the 1972 Wild Honey is a late entry into the "teenage runaway falls in with hippies" genre. "Gypsy" (Donna Young from Ed Wood's Take It Out In Trade) escapes her pervert father only to end up in the clutches of a Satanic cult led by Michael Donovan O'Donnell (Satan's Cheerleaders) that includes Russ Meyer fave Uschi Digard (Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens) and Phyllis Stengal from Mrs. Stone's Thing. Also with Lynn Harris (The Erotic Adventures of Zorro), Donna Swamp Girl Stanley, ill-fated Bambi Allen (The Fabulous Bastard From Chicago) and soap star Kipp Whitman from William Castleman's groupie groper Bummer!

British director Terence Young, craftsman of James Bond movies and heavier fare such as Wait Until Dark (1967), helmed this 1960 dive into London's seamy Soho district. On loan from 20th Century Fox, glamour icon and sex symbol Jayne Mansfield stars as "Midnight Franklin," a stripper seeking to split the scene. She's the girlfriend of Pink Flamingo club owner Johnny Solo (Leo Genn from The Snake Pit), who has his own troubles with the cops and a criminal competitor. Also with Karlheinz Peeping Tom Böhm, the ubiquitous Christopher Lee (The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism) as a gangster, and character actor Ian Fleming (not the James Bond creator) from The Return of Mr. Moto. Released in Eastmancolor in the U.K. under the title Too Hot To Handle, the U.S. version was demoted to dupe-y black and white, heavily cut, and slapped with a title intended to cash in on Mansfield's "Playboy" magazine photo spread. 

FACT: This is a Swedish film, originally released in 1953 as Ogift fader sökes, and it's not about New York City. Though a sensitive, socially responsible drama addressing the tribulations behind its subject concern, a subtitled version was distributed in the U.S. in 1956 by President Films with an exploitation-style campaign that failed to mention its Swedish origin.  Eva Stiberg from Gustaf Molander's Eva is a young woman seduced and abandoned by a debonair doctor (co-director and co-writer Bengt Logardt, also a dentist!). Also with Per Sjöstrand (Wild Strawberries) and Lissi Alandh from Mai Zetterling's Night Games.

In 1958, South Carolina's Howco International issued this clumsily-made, low-budget fluff about Johnny Dennis, a young actor (James Dean clone and professional extra Ken Clayton from The Cosmic Man) whose obsession with death threatens to wreck his career along with his sports car. Will he be saved from his own worst instincts, and, more importantly, can you stay awake to find out? With Lilyan Chauvin (Bloodlust!) as Johnny's maternalistic manager, Carol Vice Raid Nugent as "Pinkie," and Barbara Wilson from The Flesh Eaters as the love interest. It's the only feature film from assistant and television director Frank E. Myers (Lassie).

Originally titled Orgasmo, Umberto Lenzi's 1969 thriller starred blacklisted Hollywood star Carroll Baker (Ice Station Zebra) as a wealthy widow whose corruption at the hands of a younger man (Lou Castel from Marco Bellocchio's Fists In The Pocket) and his "sister"  (Colette Descombes from The Erotic Adventures of Robinson Crusoe) leads to a twist (and twisted) conclusion. Lenzi peppers the usual misogyny with a trace of class consciousness, though Baker's character is, as might be expected of the genre, the target of both. The assistant to the director was none other than award-winning Bertrand Tavernier ('Round Midnight).

Ultra Pictures released an English-dubbed version of critic turned filmmaker Rafael The Ship of Damned Women Matarazzo's 1956 La risaia ("rice field") with a campaign capitalizing on the sex appeal of star Elsa Martinelli as title character Elena. Apparently made to cash in on Giuseppe De Santis' earlier hit Bitter Rice with Silvana Mangano, the moralistic Rice Girl is middling melodrama steeped in Catholicism. Also with Michel Auclair from Cocteau's classic Beauty and the Beast and Folco Lulli from the Henri Georges-Clouzot thriller The Wages Of Fear. Martinelli would subsequently appear in films by everyone from Roger Vadim (Blood and Roses) to Howard Hawks (Hatari).

With nary a teen nor a bride to be seen, first-time director Gary Troy's 1974 Teenage Bride is a tale of multiple seductions that goes beyond the usual limits of soft core porn. The screenplay, merely an excuse to manipulate its characters into humping one another, is the product of three guys with no other screenwriting credits. Cast members with more than a one-credit resumé include future hardcore stars Colleen Brennan (Sulka's Daughter) and Cyndee Stiff Competition Summers, along with juicy Jane Tsentas from Ed Wood's The Only House In Town. Marlene Buckalew (Sweet Georgia) was the editor, Vic Lance (Mantis In Lace) the scorer, and executive producer Harry Novak's Boxoffice International the distributor.