This movie has some parallels with "Sinister Urge" and "The Girl in Gold Boots"...and for a while, I was thinking this was an "Ed Woodie" - but it's not. It is another attempt to expose the drug and sex culture of Hollywood and how that is used to manipulate young girls aspiring to the silver screen. It was made in 1961 which means the stripper scenes (including Rue Maclanahan) were apparently added later. In 1961 there were already stripper type movies (like this one) at rare theaters; those listings stating "Men Only" or similar, and it would be years before actual laws got enacted regarding the "Adult" classification.
There are some other edited-in segments here and there (stock footage?) but really not as much as in similar B movies of the era. This movie is somewhat confusing - in the first segment it is unclear what is going on at the junkyard, and the part where Rue gets shot with a drug and gets manhandled is also unclear who he is. I couldn't tell. I thought it was Tony. It's dark and all the guys look alike.
This movie is poorly shot in many ways and as one might expect in a film of this nature (soft porn) it has a very low lumen rating. Even the beach scenes are strangely drab. It just looks cheap - and story line aside, I can see why Rue struck this from her list of roles - it just looks way B-; actually a C- movie. And, despite poor lighting Rue looks all of 45 years old. I guess Maybelline was still putzing with 18th century make up formulae.
But I like the violence segments near the end (I am not a fan of violence) and these are relatively creative and not drawn out.
I saw this on an MST crew post-MST3K segment, and they are very funny, here (in a couple of spots I almost died laughing). And that alone, is where it gets points from me. Otherwise a drab dreary depressing movie with halfass treatment of the subject. If you have no sense of humor, just skip it. Use the hour to iron your jeans or something.
