Marcia (Gretchen Rudolph) has been called to a small town in the middle
of nowhere, USA, because her sister (Garaldine Baron) has promised her a
job as hostess at a gogo club. When Marcia arrives though, the sister is
dead, strangled, and the police doesn't have a clue. Marcia decides to
start working at the club, but under an assumed name, to investigate her
sister's death, and she soon learns about a prostitution ring among the
dancers, a lesbian pianist (Joy Durden), and of course about George (Tony
King), the son of a rich publisher (Liz Love) who seems to have been
engaged to her sister. Weirdly enough, George and his mom come to the club
every day, but Marcia soon finds out mom was opposed to George's
relationship with her sister. George feels drawn to Marcia though, so mom
eventually lures her to a barn and a violent fight erupts, only to be
interrupted by investigating cop Loring (John Aristedes), who has long
taken a liking to Marcia himself. However, it's eventually revealed that
George's mother was not the killer but the lesbian pianist, who now takes
Marcia captive, which leads to a carchase that results in the girl's car
going over a cliff, but only after Marcia has saved herself ... Joe
Sarno making an erotic whodunnit - and the result is ... well, uneven.
Some scenes are highly erotic, and Sarno certainly hasn't forgotten his
general, very involved approach to sex and perversion. Plus, some of the
dialogue scenes are really nicely shot and give the film some class
exceeding its obvious low budget. But that said, the movie falls flat when
it comes to the actual mystery aspects of the story: The story is rather
clumsily built up, a red herring is thrown into your face way too
violently, and then exculpated without any narrative rhyme or reason, and
the actual culprit seems to be pulled out of the hat, and an explanantion
for her actions is never even given. Still, the film looks pretty fine -
too bad it's not better written.
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