Bordello (1981) Poster

(1981)

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5/10
A Mexican/Spanish Western comedy that boasts a great cast with plenty of veteran and new actors
ma-cortes5 August 2022
Set in Nogales where lives a stiff-upper-lip Church Minister named Jeremias (Jorge Rivero) and his attractively mature wife Tamar (Isela Vega) with four gorgeous virgin daughters (Maria Jose Cantudo, Ana De Sade, Taida Urruzola , Verónica Miriel) inherit a bordello from the deceased sister . The land contains a copper mine and the ambitious Dalton brothers , Spencer (Michael Conrad) and Jonathan (Chuck Connors) , helped by a corrupt Judge (John Ireland) attempt to force them to leave.

This is a Western comedy with entertaining situations , amusement , shootouts , silly messes and fights in Terence Hill/Bud Spencer style . There is a lot of nudism , erotic scenes and some sexual elements prevail during the cinematic narration . But here stands out the explosive veteran starring and the newcomers , some regular ¨Destape¨actresses , as the Spanish María José Cantudo, Taida Urruzola, Verónica Miriel , and Mexican Ana De Sade , all of them along with the forty-and-some mother played by Isela Vega provide the best scenes of the movie , at the begining , when they take a joint shower before the eyes of their allegedly rigid father, Jorge Rivero , these set-pieces imitate the box-office film : ¨Vicente Escriva's La Lozana Andaluza¨in which Italian actress Maria Rosario Omaggio took a famous and similar shower . The film stars Jorge Rivero , a Mexican hunk whose debut film was playing a masked wrestler and his face was never shown . Rivero soon became a sex symbol and a major Mexican box-office star , and was called by Hollywood to star with John Wayne in Howard Hawks's Río Lobo (1970) and others as The Last Hard Men or Blue Soldier . Since the 1980s he has worked only occasionally in Mexican films and soap operas, he has lived in Southern California for more than a decade but uses to show up in international productions , sometimes billed as "George Rivero¨. And the Mexican idol Isela Vega , who from her beginning in small roles in Mexican films in the early 1960s , her career grew and Isela became very popular as a sex symbol in the late 1960s , being her most popular film : Sam Peckinpah's Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia and others as Deadly Trackers , Las siete cucas , The black Widow or Joshua . Furthermore, the picture is full of known American secondary actors, usual in the 50s , 60, and 70s , such as : John Ireland , Chuck Connors , Mike Moroff and Michael Conrad .

The motion picture produced by Carlos Vasallo in budget enough was regular but professionaly directed by Ramón Fernández , though it has a lot of shortcomings , faults , flaws and gaps . Ramón was a prolific artisan who directed all kinds of genres , such as thrillers and Giallos : ¨Rueda de sospechosos¨ , ¨7 minutos para morir¨, ¨La muerte ronda a Monica¨ ; Westerns : ¨Las mujeres de Jeremias¨ ; Musical: ¨Las aventuras de Enrique y Ana¨, ¨A Tope¨ . Being expert on Spanish comedies, such as : ¨Aqui estan las vicetiples¨, ¨Cateto a babor¨, , ¨Ahi va otro recluta¨, ¨Simon contamos contigo¨, ¨Sor YeYe¨ , ¨Margarita se llama mi amor¨, ¨Los novios de mujer¨, ¨El adultero¨, ¨El donante¨, ¨Cuando los maridos iban a la guerra¨, ¨Doctor me gustan las mujeres es grave¨, ¨Matrimonio al desnudo¨, ¨El señorito y las seductoras¨, ¨El gran mogollon¨, ¨Aqui el que no corre vuela¨ and he made ¨No desearas al vecino del quinto¨that was considered to be the most box-office film in the Spanish cinema . Rating 5/10 . Average but passable.
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5/10
Mexican Sex and Slapstick Comedy with Jorge RIVERO and Andres GARCIA
ZeddaZogenau17 February 2024
This Mexican-Spanish co-production also offers everything: Western, drama, sex comedy and slapstick comedy in one!

Jorge RIVERO plays a Protestant priest in a small Mexican town. With his wife (Isela VEGA) he has four well-grown daughters (Maria Jose CANTUDO, Ana de SADE, Taida URRUZOLA and Veronica MIRIEL), whom all the men in the village are after. That doesn't suit the tough man of God at all. Especially because his beautiful wife is also lusted after by the muscle-bound village blacksmith (Andres GARCIA). It's wonderful how the two Latin lover sex idols RIVERO and GARCIA exchange blows for the crown as the biggest dazzler in Mexico! One day the pastor learns that his sister has left him a ranch in Arizona. When he goes there with his whole family, it turns out to be a former brothel. And then the Dalton brothers (including Chuck CONNORS) also cause trouble. It's good that the wife and daughters know how to use a woman's weapons...

This film is really bizarre: between the funny beatings and the hearty sex scenes, things get really dramatic at times. The five beautiful ladies strip naked several times, but RIVERO and GARCIA also have to put their luxury bodies on the market. In Mexico you had to do everything you could to get people to the cinema.

Unusual mix of genres, you can take a look!
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