House of 1000 Dolls
Umbrella Entertainment
R4 DVD
House
of 1000 Dolls has never before been released on DVD and stars Vincent Price and
Maria Rohm. Originally released in 1967 it is a white slavery
story with a twist. Nightclub magician Felix Manderville
(Vincent Price) and his mentalist partner travel the world entertaining
audiences and along the way hypnotize young women, kidnap them and send them back
to Tangiers in coffins where they are used and abused in the brothel known as
the House of 1000 Dolls.
The
story opens as a young man travels for Madrid in search of his girlfriend who
has gone missing. He believes she has been seen in Tangiers and he arrives to
search for her. It is not an easy task as Tangiers is filled with brothels and
the locals do not trust foreigners much at all.
Out
on the town for the night he somehow improbably finds his girl amount a myriad of
sex clubs at the House of 1000 dolls but is brutally murdered on his way home.
His friend Doctor Armstrong (George Nader) a dislikable
and arrogant American doctor of criminology decides to investigate on his own
but not before the danger reaches into his own home when this wife goes
missing.
It
was made as an international production with both English speaking and
non-English speaking actors; much of the dialogue is dubbed and hence somewhat
wooden but it is a typical cult film of its period.
A
classic exploitation film filled with scantily clad women, a domineering madam
and punishment for escaping young women it is somewhat dated but loads of fun.
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