Jess Franco does it again with this classic tale of abduction, preversion, rape and murder. The two strippers are taken out of prison and promised freedom if they investigate the dissapearence of an international swimmer. Their previous experience in espionage will give them the edge they need in this case. Soon they learn that the swimmers abduction is just the tip of the iceberg and that this mission is not as straight forward as it seemed. With some outrageous dialogue that i cant repeat here and a plot that will leave you reeling this is Franco at his best. Filthy, Unrepentant and Entertaining.
3 Reviews
Pick Up Girls
Michael_Elliott27 February 2008
Pick-Up Girls (1981)
* 1/2 (out of 4)
Private Eye Al Crosby (Robert Foster) is hired to do some tracking down and he gets the help of two hookers (one played by Lina Romay). At first Crosby thinks this is your typical murder hunt but it turns out a woman has hired him to find her missing penis. You see, she was once a man and after her operation, she returned home with her penis in a jar and someone stole it. Yep, this is a Franco movie. That big revelation doesn't come to the end, which is a shame because it would have been a lot more fun if the PI was going after that instead of the murder plot we have to sit through. The story makes no sense whatsoever so the film becomes very boring. There's a great music score by Pablo Villa and Franco and of course there are countless sex scenes with all sorts of beautiful women getting naked. There's an erotic threesome at the start of the film as well. Franco is known for leaving mistakes in his films if they come off as something that might happen and one of these is the highlight in this film. During the threesome, Romay is trying to get Foster's pants off but both of them are struggling to do so and they finally break out of character and just start laughing.
* 1/2 (out of 4)
Private Eye Al Crosby (Robert Foster) is hired to do some tracking down and he gets the help of two hookers (one played by Lina Romay). At first Crosby thinks this is your typical murder hunt but it turns out a woman has hired him to find her missing penis. You see, she was once a man and after her operation, she returned home with her penis in a jar and someone stole it. Yep, this is a Franco movie. That big revelation doesn't come to the end, which is a shame because it would have been a lot more fun if the PI was going after that instead of the murder plot we have to sit through. The story makes no sense whatsoever so the film becomes very boring. There's a great music score by Pablo Villa and Franco and of course there are countless sex scenes with all sorts of beautiful women getting naked. There's an erotic threesome at the start of the film as well. Franco is known for leaving mistakes in his films if they come off as something that might happen and one of these is the highlight in this film. During the threesome, Romay is trying to get Foster's pants off but both of them are struggling to do so and they finally break out of character and just start laughing.
Mystifying and sleazy.
parry_na13 October 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Spanish director Jess Franco and regular leading man Antonio Mayans must have been really good friends. Not more than a few minutes into this, and Franco's partner Lina Romay (playing prostitute Suzy) and Mayans are getting very intimate, as they would continue to do at regular intervals throughout the ensuing 100 minutes.
Mayans here plays Private Eye Al Crosby (but he may as well be Al Pereira, a similar role he would play more than once later on in his career). His current situation involves him in various sexual dalliances and dangerous liaisons involving Susy, Bijou (Doris Regina) and Harry and Carla, two gangster-types who are in the process of splitting up. He's also beaten and drugged in a series of events interspersed with plenty of muggy sex.
So what is this? A sex-thriller. A sleazy spy romp. Pornography with a vague storyline winding through it. As with most of Uncle Jess's projects, it falls between several definitions without claiming to be wholly one or another. And that is why his work is fascinating to many - certainly for me, even a grainy 'skin flick' like this is engaging in an, er, impenetrable way. The dialogue (dubbed, of course) is coarse and unnatural, and the editing is somewhat choppy and inevitably this is a very low budget production. And yet the acting is convincing throughout, more so than is usual with this kind of film, with curly-wigged Lina Romay, constantly under-dressed and proving extremely watchable as always.
100 minutes is a very long time for this kind of film, and just when you question what exactly it is you are watching, the twist/revelation in the plot hits you with a sharp incredulity. "I hate looking like an ***hole," complains Crosby at one stage. If only he knew what his mission truly entailed!
An Enjoyably mystifying, sleazy flesh show.
Mayans here plays Private Eye Al Crosby (but he may as well be Al Pereira, a similar role he would play more than once later on in his career). His current situation involves him in various sexual dalliances and dangerous liaisons involving Susy, Bijou (Doris Regina) and Harry and Carla, two gangster-types who are in the process of splitting up. He's also beaten and drugged in a series of events interspersed with plenty of muggy sex.
So what is this? A sex-thriller. A sleazy spy romp. Pornography with a vague storyline winding through it. As with most of Uncle Jess's projects, it falls between several definitions without claiming to be wholly one or another. And that is why his work is fascinating to many - certainly for me, even a grainy 'skin flick' like this is engaging in an, er, impenetrable way. The dialogue (dubbed, of course) is coarse and unnatural, and the editing is somewhat choppy and inevitably this is a very low budget production. And yet the acting is convincing throughout, more so than is usual with this kind of film, with curly-wigged Lina Romay, constantly under-dressed and proving extremely watchable as always.
100 minutes is a very long time for this kind of film, and just when you question what exactly it is you are watching, the twist/revelation in the plot hits you with a sharp incredulity. "I hate looking like an ***hole," complains Crosby at one stage. If only he knew what his mission truly entailed!
An Enjoyably mystifying, sleazy flesh show.
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