Former teen idol James Darren (Gidget Goes Hawaiian) and singer/actress Barbara McNair (If He Hollers, Let Him Go) somehow ended up cast in a Jesus Succubus Franco film, this one originally conceived by the director as an interracial love story until American International nixed the notion and imposed a title suggesting the writings of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Darren is trumpet player Jimmy Logan, whose discovery of a dead body (Maria Rohm from Night of the Blood Monster) washed ashore triggers disturbing memories that gradually erode his already fragile perception of reality. Or so it seems. Also with Klaus Kinski (Marquis de Sade's Justine) as a wastrel, a jazz band featuring director Franco as well as U.K. musician Manfred Mann, and, purportedly, a script contribution from jazz great Chet Baker.
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