User Reviews

Barry Mahon may struggle to make a decent movie at times, but he's always great at coming up with titles that make me grab his films. This time, he's telling "the startling story of a girl who would do anything with anybody at anytime." "A young girl alone...marked for death by the crime syndicate!" "The exciting story of Laura...a call-girl!"

Despite their lurid titles and rampant nudity, Mahon's films are the very antithesis of sexiness. Instead, Lauren (Gretchen Rudolph*, My Body Hungers) goes out of control, from bad teen to someone using drugs and selling sex. Then, you know, as these things happen, a sniper starts shooting at her. Bob Strong, who is in this, is better known for writing the song "I Hear Wedding Bells," which is in the movies Breaking Up and Grumpier Old Men. He appears alongside several women who show up in more than one Mahon film, like Susan Evans (she played Fanny Hill in more than one of his movies) and Janice Kelly. Oh yeah! Keith McConnell is in this and his career stretches from 50's adventure movies and TV to exploitation like this and ending his acting career as Lord Cavendish in one of the first adult - well, softcore - movies I ever saw, Young Lady Chatterley II. *Rudolph is billed as Elizabeth Bing.

This film is totally a product of the drive-thru era of film-making, perfect for a teenage couple looking to see something sexual, and without much merit otherwise. You can tell the budget is is far south of about $10,000 for this movie, as it is rife with jump cuts, and the filmmakers couldn't even afford color film in 1967. The girls in this film, including the main one were mostly quite attractive, so that is a plus. For JFK assassination enthusiasts, there is a nice nod to Lee Harvey Oswald in the beginning of this film too, though the sniper is going after a bikini clad hottie instead of the President. All in all, If you would like to see a proliferation of pre-boob job breasts without much plot or artistic significance, then this is the film for you!

Luscious young brunette Laura (nicely played with considerable pluck by fetching and shapely brunette Elizabeth Bing) runs away from home after she is raped by some creep. Laura goes to Los Angeles and hooks up with her drug peddling Aunt Mary. When that doesn't work out, Laura leaves and joins a call girl racket run by the mysterious Schneider (a pleasingly slimy portrayal by Vincent Van Lynn). However, things go awry after Laura discovers Schneider's dark secret and then finds herself the unwanted target of a lethal sniper. Writer/director Barry Mahon keeps the enjoyably seamy story moving along at a snappy pace, gives this picture a grimy noir vibe, populates the eventful plot with a rich rogues' gallery of colorful lowlife characters, and delivers a handy helping of both tasty female nudity and foxy babes in skimpy lingerie. William Hennigar's stark and grainy black and white cinematography provides a suitably seedy look. The groovy free-form jazz score does the funky bumping trick. A solid and sordid outing.