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The Old West: Cowboy Rick (Jim Gentry) brings some excellent news to
Indian chief Minowa (Kedric Wolfe), so Minowa gives him some sort of
amulet. A short time later, while on his way home, Rick is ambushed by an
outlaw (Bobby Beausoleil) who knocks him out and steals the amulet. Tuwana
(Kathy Williams), a virgin girl from Minowa's tribe, finds knocked out
Rick, nurses him back to health, and gives up her virginity to him. At
the same time, the outlaw rapes and kills chief Minowa's daughter
(Catherine Share), and leaves the amulet he has stolen from Rick at the
scene of the crime ... so everybody in Minowa's tribe is led to believe it
was Rick who committed the crime. Tuwana steals away from the tribe to
warn Rick, but ruins into his wife Lucy (Julia Blackburn), and the two
women get into a catfight, until the gang of braves led by Minowa's son
catches up with Tuwana. The two women are taken captive, but Lucy seduces
Minowa's son so Tuwana can escape and warn Rick. When Rick learns about
the accusations, he enters Minowa's village on his own free will to give
himself up, believing his friendship with the chieftain will pretty much
save him ... it doesn't, and he is convicted to a castration - when Tuwana
finally speaks out, admitting to having lost her virginity to the white
man. According to the tribal law though, a woman who has lost her
virginity may be taken as wife by any member of the tribe - and Minowa's
son immediately claims her. Rick protests, but he has no say in this
matter, thus he travels back home with his wife, whom the experience with
the chieftain's son has opened up, sexually. Meanwhile Minowa's son ties
Tuwana to a tree, strips her naked and whips her violently ... which gives
her an unexpected spontaneous orgasm. Rick and Lucy stumble upon a naked
white girl who was raped by several of Minowa's men. These men are
expelled from the tribe immediately, but the whole tribe is sent packing,
too, because the white are sure to retaliate, and they are known to make
little difference between good and bad Indians. At least though the outlaw
who has killed Minowa's daughter is found and violently castrated on the
spot ... The Ramrodder is one of these films that have a
title so catchy that it's almost impossible to live up to it - and this
movie doesn't, it's basically just a cheaply shot Western that makes up
for its shortcomings in almost every other department with lots of
(topless) female nudity - which of course is not essentially a bad thing,
but then director Van Guylder sure is no Russ Meyer, and thus he delivers
nothing more than a routine nudie that gets a tad boring before long. Of
course, lovers of vintage erotica like myself will still find something to
like about the film, but that said, it's certainly no masterpiece.
By the way, this film was filmed on the legendary Spahn Ranch
when Charles Manson and Family had already put up camp there. Two of the
castmembers in this film, Catherine Share and Bobby Beausoleil, were
actually Manson Family members as well.
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