Even the most threadbare porno needs a minimum of set dressing. Among the scant accoutrements on the X-rated Tarzan parody being, er, shot in this film is a West African tribal mask. Unknown to all, said item is cursed, having been stolen by a genocidal white man in the late 19th century. Anyone donning it … Continue reading Mask of the Devil (2022)
You may not find it in your version of the Bible, but on the eighth day, God created Mamie Van Doren. And He saw that she was good — very, very good. So to me, it kinda makes sense to have her play the world’s first woman in Albert Zugsmith’s first sex comedy, The Private … Continue reading The Private Lives of Adam & Eve (1960)
Hoping to follow AIP’s Beach Party to a box-office bonanza, Warner Bros. made its own film following that hit’s formula with one glaring exception: setting it nowhere near a beach. In fact, Palm Springs Weekend posits that each Easter weekend, horny college students from Los Angeles would rather flock to the California desert county for … Continue reading Palm Springs Weekend (1963)
In the early 1930s, Hollywood tapped Olympic gold medalists Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe to play Tarzan. Half a century later, when high-concept action became big box office, studios wanting to shepherd the next Stallone or Schwarzenegger again looked to the middle of the medal podium; within 13 months of one another, moviegoers could see … Continue reading American Rickshaw (1989)
Not that you needed it, but for further proof Italy never saw a movie trend it couldn’t rip off, I give you Karzan, Maitre de la Jungle, aka the Tarzan wannabe Karzan, Master of the Jungle, starring “Johnny Kissmuller Jr.” (actually Loaded Guns’ Armando Bottin) as the illiterate lord of the loincloth. The setup Xeroxes … Continue reading Karzan, Master of the Jungle (1972)