Brazilian actor J.P. Carvalho, aka Billy Davis, directed two films including this one,1963's Bonitinha, Mas Ordinária (Pretty, But Ordinary), a bleak depiction of societal corruption and malevolence. Its script was based on a play by controversial Brazilian playwright and sports commentator Nelson Rodrigues ("All Nudity Shall Be Punished"), who referred to his own work as "theater of the unpleasant." Victoria Films dubbed the film, added nude inserts, and tweaked the title for a 1965 tour of U.S. fleapits. With Jece Valadão (José Mojica Marins' Embodiment Of Evil) and Odete Lara from Glauber Rocha's 1969 classic Antonio das Mortes.
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