Given that the production company behind it is the notorious Crown International Pictures, you'd expect FRENCH QUARTER to be a run-of-the-mill sexploitation story about a young woman with plenty of aspirations who finds herself exploited on the sleazy streets of New Orleans. Instead, for the first part of the film this is exactly what plays out, except that the film takes on a sci-fi twist by transporting the characters back a century to when they were working at a brothel with all of the trials and tribulations of prostitute life.
It's a pretty quirky little production, made with more imagination than talent and no real explanation for what's going on. There are mild voodoo and magic elements to the tale. The cast is surprisingly decent for a forgotten, zero budget outing, particularly Alisha Fontaine as the beautiful, tragic Gertrude, and Bruce Davison as her love interest, Davison of course achieving fame of sorts in Hollywood later on in his career. The introduction of real-life supporting characters into the cast and some thriller elements make this more interesting than most, so you get actual story alongside the skin, which typically involves striptease routines from the starlets. It's better than you'd expect.
It's a pretty quirky little production, made with more imagination than talent and no real explanation for what's going on. There are mild voodoo and magic elements to the tale. The cast is surprisingly decent for a forgotten, zero budget outing, particularly Alisha Fontaine as the beautiful, tragic Gertrude, and Bruce Davison as her love interest, Davison of course achieving fame of sorts in Hollywood later on in his career. The introduction of real-life supporting characters into the cast and some thriller elements make this more interesting than most, so you get actual story alongside the skin, which typically involves striptease routines from the starlets. It's better than you'd expect.