2009
Erotic Comedy
Germany
Secret Key
Motion Pictures
R0 DVD
This film dates back to 1972 when it was
called (translated from German) Love Thirsty Girls and is a German take on
erotic movies. It is a light-hearted little romp in which the comedy seems more
important than the eroticism. It seems to be a typical cheapie release destined
for the world’s drivein theatres, and it is here that I first saw it.
The plot is fairly basic and obviously
intended as a comedy. The local puritan pharmacist has three daughters.
Elizabeth (Sybil Danning) is Miss Virgin, and she keeps losing jobs because she
refuses the advances of her superiors. Her two sisters, stuck at home, are
outright nymphomaniacs who are having it off with their boyfriends each night
in their father’s house. The sisters and their boyfriends can’t get married yet
as their father has an old fashioned idea that the oldest girl should be
married first. When Elizabeth returns home after losing her latest job she
finds out what is going on and threatens to expose her sisters. There is only
one solution – they must get Elizabeth laid. This is not as easy as it seems.
She has an ex-boyfriend in the town but sex with him is out of the
question. The doctor at a local
rejuvenation clinic is a possibility, but since she has recently had a bad time
with men in her life she rejects him also. She does, however, accept a job
there as a nurse.
In an old medicine book the boys discover
a potency pill recipe. They try it on some of the villagers and it works, so
they decide to try it on Elizabeth’s potential boyfriends to see if they can
get her aroused enough to lose her virginity. Unfortunately it is taken by the
elderly men at the rejuvenation clinic instead. Now the comedy and
misunderstandings start.
The film is not particularly erotic by
today’s standards – a bit of full frontal nudity, no male organs in sight
anywhere, more suggestiveness than sex. The women are however quite attractive
(Sybil Danning was definitely at her best at this time) and the acting is quite
good. The plot is silly, but still fun – better than its American equivalents
at the time. The film has suffered badly from age, though, and the colour is
unnaturally bright and contrasty as if it has been enhanced but not
colour-corrected. Still, it’s not too bad for its age.
The film is not a masterpiece but it does
bring back some good memories.
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