Director/actor Peter Savage (Doris Wishman's Double Agent 73) enlisted his pals, former World Middleweight Champion boxers Rocky Graziano (Teenage Millionaire) and Jake "Raging Bull" LaMotta (Confessions of a Psycho Cat), to appear with him in inserts to enliven Heißer Sand auf Sylt, a turgid 1968 sex comedy about a wayward husband from German director Jerzy Macc (Ready, Willing and Able). The original German feature starred former SS member Horst Tappert from Jesús Franco's The Devil Came from Akasava, actor/director Charlotte Kerr (the 1966 German sci-fi series Raumpatrouille), Solvi Stubing from Secret Agent Super Dragon, and Renate Those Fantastic Flying Fools Holt. Along with the prior palookas, Savage's new footage featured Jennifer Stone from Frank Perry's 1963 nuclear annihilation drama Ladybug, Ladybug and shapely Sheila Murder In Mississippi Britt as a nudist. Both LaMotta and Graziano hit the talk show circuit to promote the film and also appeared in Savage's deservedly obscure 1970 gangster comedy Cauliflower Cupids. Not yet down for the count, Savage later contributed to the script and portrayed fight promoter Jackie Curtie in Martin Scorsese's Academy Award-winning film about LaMotta, Raging Bull (1980).
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