Orgy American Style (1973)

Peruvian-born porn meister and theater owner Efrain "Carlos" Tobalina (Notorious Big Sin City) made a number of soft-X films prior to going explicit with such fare as 1982's Lust Inferno. His Orgy American Style from 1973 is one of the former, though released in separate "hot" and "cool" versions. The film's imdb.com entry mistakenly outlines the scenario of Bethel Buckalew's The Dirty Mind Of Young Sally, whereas Tobalina's celluloid mess mostly consists of poorly rendered orgy scenes with unlikely partners (a policeman, a minister, a psychiatrist, etc.). The cast is a "who's who" of west coast pornography, including Colleen Brennan (nom de porn: Sharon Kelly) and Sandy Carey, both from A Scream In The Streets, the ever-popular Rene Bond (Teenage Fantasies), Sandy Violated! Dempsey, Becky Sharpe from Inside Pussycat, Rick Lutze (Beach Blanket Bango) as compromised cop "Lee Ronder," balding Keith Erickson (Let's Lick Dick), and Angela Carnon from Lee Frost's nasty A Climax Of Blue Power. Prolific bit player George "Buck" Flower (Please Don't Eat My Mother) also appears (as "Buck La Fleur"). The name-dropping press book posits resplendent redhead Sharon Kelly, who displayed genuine acting talent, as "the new Marilyn Monroe."

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