Melvin Shyer's reductionist 1939 exploitation feature about teenage Marian (Mary Ainslee), who finds herself threatened by a prostitution ring, arrives at the damning conclusion that it's all the fault of mom (silent film star Betty Compson). If the wealthy society dame hadn't hired a male prostitute (oily Willy Castello) for her own pleasure, only to find him drooling over her daughter instead, virtue would have prevailed and audiences would have been spared this hectoring, paternalistic rant of a roadshow release.

​Shyer, whose career began in the silent era, worked primarily as assistant to directors such as Richard Thorpe and Edward Dmytryk, and served in that function on classic horror fave Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman (1943). His final credit was as assistant director for 1962's Creation Of The Humanoids, purportedly Andy Warhol's favorite film.

Here's another sicko abomination from "Zoltan G. Spencer" (Spencer Crilly), the auteur behind the horror porn outing Terror At Orgy Castle (1971). Ron (Doctor Masher) Dyer and Crilly himself (as "Mr. Zoltan") are "unscrupulous promoters," two-bit Harvey Weinstein prototypes who use the lure of filmmaking to molest and humiliate aspiring actresses. Implied sex with a gorilla hearkens back to musty Ingagi transgressions. In an earlier career, Crilly was an industrial filmmaker responsible for award-winning shorts such as Stampede Stopover (1955) and Breakthrough (also 1955) for the Ingersoll-Rand Corporation.

A pre-Fellini Marcello Mastroianni starred with Eleonora Rossi Drago (Radley Metzger's Camille 2000) in this 1952 potboiler about a femme fatale and two tempted brothers (Mastroianni along with Amadeo Nazzari from The Valachi Papers). Director Clemente Fracassi, who also co-wrote with Ennio DeConcini and Alberto Moravia, followed up with a filmed version of Verdi's Aida starring Sophia Loren.

Russ Meyer's follow-up to his omnibus feature Erotica (1962) was this faux western with the usual poverty of plots endemic to the nudie cutie genre, yet looking far better than most of its creatively anemic competitors. The cast features co-writer (and former child star and car thief) John E. Moran, Julie Williams from Coleman Francis' pitiful The Skydivers (1963), and Terri Taylor as "Golden Nuggets." Watch for cameos by Meyer and the notorious Princess Livingston.

"Throbbing adventure and blazing lips!" Over a decade before becoming known to television viewers as Lisa Douglas on television's Green Acres, "Hollywood's hottest bet" Eva Gabor starred as the Balinese beauty Sarna in this 1952 Polynesian potboiler, the final film directed by silent era vet Bud Pollard (The Horror). Paul Valentine from the noir classic Out Of The Past is a Navy pilot who crash lands on a remote island populated with savage amazons who...wait, wrong movie. It's populated with beautiful island women who scheme for his attention and inflame the jealousy of the villainous Uraka (Malcolm Lee Beggs, who in four years would be beaten to death by two teenagers in a robbery attempt). This soporific scenario is padded with scenes scissored from the 1935 feature Legong: Dance Of The Virgins, which is reviewed elsewhere on this site (see September 2014).

This 1961 teengenerate saga from the U.K. was originally released as Beat Girl to an immediately hostile press. David Farrar (Black Narcissus) is a respectable architect whose impetuous teenage daughter Jennifer (Gillian Hills from A Clockwork Orange) exploits her ex-stripper stepmother's past. Christopher Lee is a sleazy strip club owner with his eye on Jenny. Also with pop singer Adam Faith, Oliver (Curse Of The Werewolf) Reed, and Shirley Ann Field from Peeping Tom. Director Edmond T. Gréville followed up with a so-so remake of the silent horror classic The Hands Of Orlac, while the film's soundtrack composer, John Barry, would soon find fame scoring the James Bond series.

An attempt to cash in on the success of the lurid Mandingo (1975) and its imitators, this 1977 reissue of a distinguished 1965 European adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous novel offered additional titillation with new scenes of sex and sadism as directed by schlockmeister Al Adamson on behalf of Independent-International Pictures and the legendary Kroger Babb at the tail end of his long career. With John (Dr. No) Kitzmiller as Uncle Tom, former "Phantom" Herbert Lom, Biff Yeager from Adamson's Jesse's Girls, and Marilyn (Nurse Sherri) Joi. It played some dates under the title White Trash Woman.

Kendall Stewart (Casting Call) directed this unlikely 1970 sex comedy about housewife hookers featuring Barbara (Wild, Free and Hungry) Mills, Stephen Treadwell from The Erotic Circus (1969), Luanne (Bonnie's Kids) Roberts, and Robert Cole (Night Of The Animals), who also wrote the script. It was the introduction of Allessanora, who apparently took her exit immediately afterwards.

William Mishkin's 1965 sexploitation snoozer was directed by Jerald Intrator, who previously had overseen his The Orgy At Lil's Place (1963). A unique framing device in which the alleged filmmakers discuss their project between clips from their purported film does little to alleviate the lethargy. Lana Lynn stars as Liz Adams, yet another newcomer to New York itching to be a star. With Rusty Allen from Daughter Of The Sun as "Connie Mason" (!), John Lyon from The Horror Of Party Beach, and Davee Decker (Diary Of A Nudist). 

Ray Dennis Steckler's first outing as director, Wild Guitar (1962) was produced by Arch Hall Sr. (Eegah!) as a showcase for his son Arch, Jr. to star as budding rocker "Bud Eagle." Steckler also appears as hired goon "Steak" along with then-wife Carolyn Brandt, Nancy Czar (Winter A-Go-Go), and Hall Sr. himself as Bud's corrupt manager. Cinematography was by future Academy Award winner Vilmos Zsigmond.