Fur Lined Bikinis and Dinosaurs

Some original French stills from Val Guest's 1970 Hammer film, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, featuring eurostarlets Victoria Vetri, Magda Konopka, Imogen Hassall and Jan Rossini. Rossini can also be seen in The Oblong Box (1969) and Cry of the Banshee (1970).

Czech Mate: Olinka Berova

Pretty Olinka Berova, née Olga Schoberová, in a Continental Film Review article. The lovely starlet is best known for her appearance in Hammer's 1968, The Vengeance of She. Her charms can also be admired in a couple of German Krimi, Das Geheimnis der Chinesischen Nelke (1964), Kommissar X - Drei Grüne Hunde (1967), the German western, Die Schwarzen Adler von Santa Fe (1965) and in the late 1960s sexy historical adventures, Lucrezia Borgia, l'Amante del Diavolo (1968) and Le Calde Notti di Poppea (1969). She was also the first girl from her country to appear on the cover of Playboy (March 1964, Vol. 11 - Iss. 3).

Heroines in Distress (or perhaps just Disarray)

The Bathtub #001

Martine Beswick in a lushly appointed prehistoric bathroom, all furs and blankets (and a judiciously placed jar) in this original still from Michael Carreras's 1967 Hammer movie, Prehistoric Women (Slave Girls).

Eurostarlets #006: Lynne Frederick

Vampire Circus, Part a

Dora Müller (Lynne Frederick) running through the dense forest, trying to elude the men pursuing her from the roadblocks, in an effort to reach the plague-ridden town of Shtetl. Vampire Circus has remained one of my favorite Hammer horrors from the first time i saw it - i must have been about 15 or 16 at the time. That first viewing also resulted in a tremendous crush on the excruciatingly beautiful Ms. Frederick who was 17 at the time of shooting. And although that first viewing is now almost 25 years ago, i can still feel that strange vibe when i watch the movie again, and again...

The sequence depicted is how the lovely young girl is first introduced in this wonderfully atmospheric movie.

What little there is written about Lynne Frederick, usually concerns her marriage to and divorce from the famous Peter Sellers, and her tragic downward spiral into alcohol and drugs. Check the comprehensive "The Lynne Frederick Story" by Victoria Mary Clarke for a detailed  and quite depressing background on her tragic later life. 

(http://www.victoriamaryclarke.com/articles/Frederick%20The%20Lynne%20%20Story.html)

But to genre fans like me she will always be remembered for her parts in "No Blade of Grass" (1970), the two eurowesterns, "Giubbe Rosse" (1974)" and "I Quattro dell'Apocalisse" (1975), both opposite genre fav Fabio Testi (the first directed by Aristide Massaccesi, the second by Lucio Fulci), "Phase IV" (1974), the elusive "El Vicio y la Virtud" (1975), Pete Walker's "Schizo" and, of course, the marvellous Vampire Circus (1971).