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.
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