The Nymph and the Fishmen

You won't find these images in the film!! Lovely Barbara Bach reveals more in a cool photoshoot for a special issue of vintage magazine, Ciné-Revue, concerning Sergio Martino's hugely enjoyable L'Isola degli Uomini Pesce (1979).

 

 

 

Euro Jungle Girls, Tarzana and Luana

Some Cinema X images from two eurojungle adventures. In Tarzana, Sesso Selvaggio (1969), directed by the infamous Guido Malatesta, some hunters on safari in Kenya discover the remains of a small plane. Inside are two skeletons and a girl's doll. When the news of the discovery reaches London, Sir Donovan, an old millionaire who has lost his son and daughter in law, along with their baby girl Lizabeth, in the same region some 16 years previously, realizes that his granddaughter, and now 18-year old heiress, may still be roaming around the slopes of the Kilimandjaro. An expedition is organized, headed by Glen Shipper (Ken Clark), the best hunter in Kenya. On his search he will be accompanied by Donovan's blonde secretary, Doris, Groder (Franco Ressel), a distant relative of Donovan, and Groder's shady friend, Fred (Raf Baldassarre), who is out to kill the girl, leaving the greedy Groder in possession of Donovan's millions...

Tarzana in her cushy jungle den and Doris in the privacy of her tent.

Doris washes some of that jungle grime away.

Apart from the ever lovely Femi Benussi as Tarzana, the film also features black genre fav Beryl Cunningham as Kamala, a native dancer and Franca Polesello as the ditzy secretary. Also known as Tarzana, The Wild Girl.

Luana, la Figlia delle Foresta Vergine features Mei Chen who, according to the original publicity, is 'the most beautiful savage ever seen on the screen, lythe as a lynx, agile as a fawn, as sinuous as a panther and warm as the tropic sun.' This sounds even more seductive in Italian, '... flessibile come una liana - flessuossa come una pantera - calda come il sole dei tropici...' The lovely Evi Marandi shows off her considerable charms as well.

 

 

Heroines in Distress (or perhaps just Disarray)

The Nude Swim #002

Lovely starlets taking a nude dip in this Ciné-Girl image from Ruggero Deodato's 1969, Zenabel. The gorgeous waterfalls in the sequence are the famous and often used Cascate di Monte Gelato, a familiar recurring location for fans of eurowesterns, pepla, war movies, historical films  and various gialli. Among many others the falls are to be admired in such movies as, I Corpi Presentano Tracce di Violenza Carnale (1974), Delirio Caldo (1972), Milano Trema: la Polizia vuola Giustizia (1973), Il Giorno del Giudizio (1971), Sepolta Viva (1973) and Quel Maledetto Treno Blindato (The Inglorious Bastards - 1978).

Carlo Pedersoli & Mario Girotti in the Tub

More familiar under the names of Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, these two Italian actors made 18 hugely popular films together, amongst which a great deal of Eurowesterns. Perhaps the two funniest are the 1970, Lo Chiamavano Trinità (They call me Trinity) and the 1971, ... Continuavano a Chiamarlo Trinità (Trinity is STILL my Name), where they appear as the unlikely brothers, Trinità (Hill) and Bambino (Spencer). Here are some original French and German stills from both movies, along with a few from one of their earlier efforts, the 1967 Dio Perdona ... Ii no! (God Forgives ... I Don't!).

Heroines in Distress (or perhaps just Disarray)

The Nude Swim #001

Original still from Roger Corman's 1955 Swamp Women. An undercover policewoman, Lt. Lee Hampton helps three female convicts escape from prison so that they can lead her to a stash of stolen diamonds, hidden in the vast Louisiana swamps. Soon Josie (Marie Windsor), the leader; Vera (Beverly Garland), a ruthless hothead; Billie, a weak-willed flirt and Lee are stranded in the swamps because of a leaking canoe and complications arise...