She Walks by Night, A Prurient True Story

Belinda Lee, a sultry actress through the 1950s. Alas, by unnatural and violent means, she was killed at the age of 25 in 1961.  Just before she died, the sultry blonde portrayed Rosemarie Nitribitt.  This becomes weird as Miss Nitribitt died at the age of 24 in 1957. Yep, she died by most violent means.  The German  beauty had the life viciously strangled out of her in what is still the most famous, or infamous, cold case in European history. Rosemarie was screwing a member of the Royal Family during the months leading up to her murder.  Miss Lee was screwing an Italian prince at the time of her suspicious car wreck. Miss Nitribitt caused scandal, for awhile, in the British Royal Family.  Miss Lee caused scandal in the halls of The Vatican. Let us look at 1959's "She Walks by Night," a Hugo Grimaldi film directed by Rudolf Jugert.

With no way to earn a living, what is a young single babe to do?  In Berlin, Rosemary Nitribitt becomes a prostitute.  A good one.  She even enjoys it. Quickly she finds a, for lack of a better term, sugar daddy. The very wealthy and very much older Alexander (Walter Rilla) finds her, saves her from arrest, and moves her into his luxury flat. She screws around on him any chance she gets.  Though she promised never to be a prostitute again, she likes doing it too much. Eventually, Alexander throws her out. Now she goes full force finding wealthy guys and screwing them.  She actually finds her tricks, no pimp involved. Uh oh, an opportunistic pimp (Karl Lieffen) shows up. He tries to tough talk Rosemarie into working for him.  Rosemarie turns the tables, infatuates him, and she merely strings him along as a drooling admirer.

Rosemarie abuses everyone in her life including her housekeepers.  Then she finds a hunk fur dealer named Frank (Claus Wilcke).  He will be a tough conquest, but Rosemarie has assets and ultimately even the good-souled Frank is corrupted.  Now the film turns on the dread.  Rosemarie is visited by a mysterious sort.  Is he an angel?  Is he her own conscience? Rosemarie is faced with the reality that she has never loved anyone.  All that she does love are material things that will not last.  Then, with a million souls in Berlin, male and female, who would like to strangle her to death, Rosemarie becomes an almost insane paranoic.  The sultry lady of the night in gowns, lingerie, negligees, and other alluring costumes may have seemed to have had it all, especially with money, but will that be enough?

Who did murder Rosemarie Nitribitt? Is the fact that the case is still unsolved a suggestion that is was a member of the Royal Family that murdered her?  Is the mindset of Rosemarie Nitribitt now the prevailing mindset of today's youngsters?  This is a morality tale indeed.  Miss Lee is sultry and seductive in every frame of the film.  Gritty, horrific, and ominous, the beauty of Rosemarie Nitribitt (and of Belinda Lee) provide great contrast to what we see on the screen.  For a sad, horrific, and sometimes hard to watch thriller, see "She Walks by Night."  

Code Name: Dancer, Kate Capshaw as a Secret Agent

The U.S. and Cuba insist on living in the past. The 1960s are gone, thank God! Still U.S. Neo-Cons hang onto the myth that the Cubans will host an initial Communist invasion of the Florida keys. The Cubans still think Communism is a good idea even though the Russian threw it out with the trash. Then there is Kate Capshaw, a sultry dame, with some gratuitous swimsuit scenes, baring lots of cleavage, and playing a secret agent. Set in 1987, our feature today was made before the end of the Cold War.  Let us look at 1987's "Code Name: Dancer," a TV movie directed by Buzz Kulik.

She has a perfect life.  Annie (Capshaw) is a sultry schoolteacher with a rich, handsome, and doting husband (Cliff De Young). Paul and Annie even have a great kid in mind they are talking about adopting. Then Annie gets a mysterious phone call, "The Dancer is locked in the candy store and only you have the key." What does that mean? Annie's past, and very secret life has caught up to her. She flees her comfortable and loving California life, and sneaks into Cuba. Yep, her old CIA buddy, Vic (Gregory Sierra) apparently has been captured by Fidel Castro's forces. Now back in Cuba, reactivated CIA agent Annie contacts a hunk, Malarin (Jeroen Krabbe). The Cuban hunk is Castro's best buddy and Annie seduced him eight years earlier in order to gain information of Soviet troop deployments in Cuba. They had a lot of pre-marital sex and legitimately fell in love before Annie had to betray him.

Now eight years later Annie shows up at Malarin's mansion to beg him to spare Vic's life. Hey, it's Kate Capshaw showing a lot of cleavage, Malarin immediately has more pre-marital sex with her. However much he was betrayed by this CIA operative, he still loves her.  Hey, it's Kate Capshaw! Uh oh...yep, you guessed it.  The CIA and the Soviets are involved and we know what that means.  Not all is what it appears.  It also means that Annie's allies may not be allies.  Now Annie is on the run in Cuba, and to make matters worse, her lover has been arrested by Fidel Castro's security forces. 

Kate Capshaw is stunning in every moment she is on screen.  Sadly, this is not the feel good movie of 1987, as the Cold War was not the feel good story spanning four decades. The allure of Annie in a swimsuit or sweating in the Cuban heat is matched by danger at every turn and betrayal is also lurking.  For a great Cold War film with a very alluring performance by Ms. Capshaw, see "Code Name: Dancer" and see how it plays so well here in 2025.

No Contest II, Shannon Tweed Returns

Carnage at a beauty pageant was such a beautiful plot device. Evening gown clad beauties in much peril played well on the silver screen in the 1995 "No Contest" (aka "Face the Evil") starring Shannon Tweed. Ms. Tweed's character killed a lot of terrorists and saved some of the beauty contestants...alas, not all. You can't keep a good babe down and in 1996 Ms. Tweed made "No Contest II," also directed by Paul Lynch. Would our blonde Kung Fu babe return with a machinegun and an attitude? Yep!

Sharon Bell (Tweed) is making a Kung Fu film. Between shoots, she takes her director, Jack (Bruce Payne) and male lead, Steve (Jeffrey Max Nicholls) to go scouting for a location. Sharon takes them to a artsy-fartsy museum. Sharon's babe sister, Bobbi (Jayne Heitmeyer) is assistant curator there. Sharon hopes to rekindle a relationship with Bobbi. Over the years, Bobbi developed much resentment to Sharon. Just by coincidence, Eric (Lance Henriksen) arrives. He is donating a priceless statue he managed to buy in Moscow. The priceless statue was originally stolen by the Nazis during the war and ended up buried in Moscow after the war. The thing is priceless. As Sharon arrives with her crew, the statue arrives.

Uh oh! Bobbi is not happy to see Sharon. Even worse, Eric's men and babe femme-fatale, Lisette (Fiona Highet) start killing museum personnel. Now Eric has everyone locked in the museum as his people cut into the statue to find a Nazi formula for a nerve gas that can wipe out an entire country. As Eric and crew make the nerve agent and kill some more, Sharon fights back. Of course she will get into a catfight to the death with Lisette. Kung Fu and Uzis will prevail and now Sharon must free her sister, her co-star, and her director and foil Eric's plans to export the nerve gas to rogue nations. Oh yeah, some of the nerve gas gets loose and it actually melts people...you'll see. 

Why is Bobbi hostile to Sharon and will Sharon's Kung Fu efforts change their relationship? What does Eric want to do with the nerve gas bombs? Will Sharon or Eric end up melting by the end of this sequel? Gunfights, beautiful women, an evil mad-scientist, and melting victims provide some good entertainment. Ms. Tweed is stunning and her martial arts ability does present a great action hero. For a great time, and some nice Shannon Tweed cheese, see "No Contest II." 

The Wild Women of Wongo, Sultry Babes in Togas Want Hunks

As wokeness begins dying, thank God, perhaps more films like our feature today will be made.  Back in 1959, we did not have to worry about nauseating plots featuring "strong, independent women shattering the glass ceiling."  We didn't have to listen to the mindless drivel about women working twice as hard to have to prove herself in a male dominated society.  We didn't have to pretend ugly women were women of true beauty.  Today, with wokeness, obesity, purple hair, septum rings, and tattoos are forced on us. Well, times are changing again...ugly women get away!  Bring on the sultry dames that we actually want to look at.  So, let us take a look at 1959's "The Wild Women of Wongo," directed by James L. Wolcott.

Omoo (Jean Hawkshaw), the king of Wongo's daughter, is promised to a man she does not find attractive.  Omoo is a babe and wears a leopard-print toga around.  The other maidens of Wongo, all babes, are also dressed in revealing togas. Mona (Mary Ann Webb) has a nice leather one, and the perky blonde Wana (Adrienne Bourbeau) is my favorite. There are several others. The dragon god, an alligator, will pick their mates. One day a hunk visitor comes to Wonga, the handsome Engor (Johnny Walsh).  He's never seen beautiful women before.  All the women on his island are right out of 2020 woke-America...ugly! Omoo and Engor lust for one another, but the king makes it clear, Omoo is promised to a local milquetoast man. On his exit, the king orders Engor killed, but Omoo and the other awestruck maidens save him. 

Engor escapes, but the maidens will be punished by spending a month in the wilderness until the dragon god eats one of them. The babes bicker and dance.  Ahtee (Cande Gerrard) asserts herself as Omoo's rival. Ape men and alligators attack, and the babes fight them off with spears. Now the babes get bold and take canoes to Engor's island.  Engor and his mates are all promised to the local beast-women of his tribe. Omoo and her buddies act and capture all the men from Engor's tribe in nets.  The men are upset at this but we wonder how upset they are given the women of their own tribe are...UGLY! Fat, too!

Just what will Omoo and the other babe maidens do with the captured hunks?  Will the ape-women of Engor's tribe mount a counteroffensive and catfight with the Wongo dames?  Will any ape men capture a maiden and have their way with her?  There will be catfights, nice ones!  Skinny-dipping!  More catfights!  There will also be aroused maidens doing alluring dances fit for exotic dance clubs.  This is an alluring one that celebrates beauty and manhood.  For an anti-woke film to combat Hollywood's current releases, see "The Wild Women of Wongo."  

Angel of Vengeance, Babe Hunted by Survivalists

Jannina Poynter is known only for one film...the one I'm reviewing now.  Sultry and quite fit, the actress will be put through the grinder in this one. She'll also do something that many actresses refuse to do...she'll be gang raped as part of her portrayal. Miss Poynter is not an atypical actress to appear in a Ted V. Mikels film.  He finds babes, who can act, and who will do what most won't.  Tortured, humiliated, and violated, Miss Poynter will come through just fine in our exploitation gem today, the 1987 Ted V. Mikels spectacular, "Angel of Vengeance."

The sultry Tina (Poynter) is back in the town she grew up in. Now she is all grown up and has quite a shape. She rents a cabin in the woods with a plan to write a book about her dad...I know...yawn! A group of ne'er-do-well survivalists notice her and feel compelled to rape her. These survivalists first introduce themselves to Tina when Manny (Macka Foley) heads over to her cabin to rape her. Tina beats him up, calls the cops, but doesn't press charges. Major Hargrove (David O'Hara) leads the survivalists inside a desert compound.  He hates women...all of them are trouble.  He has no idea.  He brings his survivalists into battle with a neer-do-well biker gang and they massacre the bikers.  A sultry biker babe, Linda (Linda Eden) is taken prisoner..  She'll be raped a lot by Manny.

Then Tina is captured.  She is beaten up, tied up, strung up upside down, and humiliated.  She'll be put in the same cell as Linda.  Manny comes by and promises to rape her.  Unfortunately for Tina, she will be raped one by one by all the survivalists.  Now the Major wants to slit her throat.  When Tina gives him sass, he decides to let her loose in the wilderness and allow his men to hunt her down.  Oops...he did not know Tina also has a survivalist background...he'll find out.  Crossbows, grenades, machineguns, daggers, booby-traps, and sticks will all assume the role of weapons of choice.  As hordes of survivalists begin the hunt, they have no clue they are the underdogs.

Will the gang rape of Tina make the deaths of the hulking survivalists bloodier?  Is there a chance that Major Hargrove can prevail in his plans to cut Tina's throat?  Is this the greatest feminist anthem, as far as film goes, since "I Spit on Your Grave"?  Ms. Poynter gives an energetic performance and we love watching her run, sweat, being tortured, and prevailing.  For some gratuitous revenge exploitation, see "Angel of Vengeance." 

Paranoia, Restricted X Action

Giallo! Italian horror (thriller, actually) with some deviant sex and a lot of it. Now, to be honest...only a prude would see this film as Rated X. That is...a prude or the people marketing this Umberto Lenzi film. Still, we can agree this is at least a hard R rating...still good. Shower sex, threesomes in bed, lesbian passion...and of course, heterosexual sex. This is Italian and we can even say Euro-trash so throw in some brother-sister carnal relations...oh, those Europeans...everyone is related over there in that continent. Our feature today is the Carroll Baker film, 1969's "Paranoia" (aka "Orgasmo").

Kathryn (Baker) is a hot widow. Her older husband died and left her half the world's wealth. She comes to Italy to take possession of a mansion, now hers. An over-fawning old lawyer, Brian (Tino Carraro) helps her settle the affairs of the estate. She is a bit of a boozer and as we find out...a nymphomaniac. By chance (yeah, right) a stranded motorist, Peter (Lou Castel), breaks down in front of her estate. He's quite handsome...looks like Steve McQueen. Of course, he invades her shower and the two will have a long sex scene as the steaming hot water enhances the moment. He, apparently, hates wealth and wants nothing to do with money. She loves sex with this younger man. He keeps sneaking onto her estate and eventually is invited to move in. Guess who he brings? His hot sister, Eva (Colette Descombes).

Eva is actually part of a nefarious plan. She will seduce Kathryn and addict her to booze and pills. Now Kathryn joins the Rome nightclub scene with her two new friends. There will be threesomes and Eva will have more personal sex with her brother...and Kathryn. Uh oh again...our brother-sister duo begin their evil plan. After addicting Kathryn to pills and booze, they keep her captive. Eva and Kathryn will have a nice cat-fight and Peter will whip and slap her senseless. All this leads to more sex. It is apparent that Kathryn is in mortal danger. Our two amorous invaders claim they don't want her money. As Kathryn falls into an abyss of helplessness and peril, Eva and Peter get more aggressive and violent.

If not money, what do Eva and Peter want from their new sex-slave? With her continued fall into addiction and vicious torture, does Kathryn have a prayer at surviving? As far as deviant sex moves...who has the most to teach...the older Kathryn, or the two young perverts? This is a gratuitous and salacious one. Not the feel good film of 1969, and you will need a shower after seeing it. For some prurient fun see "Paranoia."  

008: Operation Exterminate, A Sultry Spy Frolics

Ingrid Schoeller is a sultry German actress and the star of our film. In this James Bond rip-off, the sexy actress dominates the screen and even when she is not on it, we long for her entrance into the scene.  She'll be clad in revealing evening gowns, perky and fashionable dresses, swimsuits, ski outfits, and other formal wear.  Sequins or satin, the dame looks like she belongs in them.  Yep, today we have a James Bond rip-off from Italy, "008: Operation Exterminate," directed by Umberto Lenzi.  

An anti-radar invention has been stolen and if it comes under the wrong hands, the free world will be endangered! Don't ask. The Brits send their best agent, Frank (Alberto Lupo), aka Agent 606.  He meets the American superspy, Agent 008 (Schoeller) in Cairo where the plans for the invention were stolen. The two sexy beings team up and sexual tension erupts. 008's cover is the nightclub singer Piper Astor, and she wears the sexiest gowns while performing.  606's cover is gambler/playboy.  The duo stick out and the seediest of Egyptian thugs move in to try to kill them. 008 is swept off her feet by the Japanese baddie, Tanaka (George Wang)...this won't go well for Tanaka.  606 is almost thrown off a tower, but kills his would-be assailant instead.

008 and 606 realize they are getting close to the man who stole the invention. Soon they realize the evil hotel manager, Kemp (Ivano Staccioli), is the culprit. He's very capable and arranges for 008 to be offed at a beauty institute...catfights will ensue.  008 has a plethora of gadgets including the obligatory lipstick tubes that spray nerve gas, and other deadly accessories.  Frank battles his own would-be killers and prevails.  The two manage to save one another's behinds and they eventually swap a lot of spit. Oh no!  Surprises abound and the pretty 008 will be imperiled from surprising forces.  As Frank gets beat up, and 008 is put under a spell to make her vulnerable to the advances of the bad guys, both spies need a bit of luck or they'll perish.

Will the Egyptian thugs and Kemp turn the tables on 008 and have their way with her?  Will Frank break out of his binds and save the nubile spy?  Can two spies, who make a living at deception and lies, trust one another?  This film is the magnum opus for Ms. Schoeller and her presence on the screen is 99% of the enjoyment one would glean watching this Bond rip-off.  For a highly seductive movie night, watch the beautiful Ingrid Schoeller in "008: Operation Exterminate."