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Private Resort (1985)
Part Three of R Ben Efraim's Private Series
Israeli Producer R Ben Efraim make three unrelated movies all with Private in the title. Private Lessons 1981, starring Emmanuelle Sylvia Kristel as Mallow, the crooked maid in the home of Mr. Fillmore, who is away on business leaving his son Philip behind to discover sex and intrigue, also starring Howard Hesseman. 1983's Private School starring Phoebe Cates, Betsy Russell, Matthew Modine and Sylvia Kristel would also star in this film about a Private School. The third film, 1985's Private Resort starred Johnny Depp, fresh off Nightmare On Elm Street, Rob Morrow, Andrew Dice Clay, and the late Emily Longstreth as Patti, a teenage maid working at the exclusive Florida resort where Depp and Morrow are vacationing. Morrow and Emily's fling is touching. Very stereotypical Mid-1980's Drive-In fare turned Cinemax Gold. Johnny Depp still manages a A++ performance.
The Takers (1971)
Literally the same movie as The Wild Riders but as a porno
This movie, is literally the same as The Wild Riders with minor differences. The movie begins with a murder of another biker by EJ as Willie Boy watches. No one knows who exactly these men are, in old school illegal porn, real names were seldom used. EJ then proceeds to pick up two Hippy girls, get them high and he and Willie Boy have sex with them. Later EJ kills a Gas Station Attendent and witness a redhead Barbie played by early 1970's porn star Anna Travers as credited as Susan Apple in this film. The driver who picks her up in a 1969 Chrysler Town and Country Wagon is Laura 1963 September Playboy Playmate Victoria Valentino, credited as Kim Kaya. EJ and Willie Boy follow them home and begin a continuous session of rape and victimization. The film ends with Laura's traveling husband coming home and killing both men. Then everyone laughs and the cast and crew burst onto the set as the cameras roll. EJ is like Pete in The Wild Riders only a legitimate badass. Willie Boy isn't like Stick but he does everything EJ tells him. Valentino would go on to become famous again when the Bill Cosby trial began.
Wild Riders (1971)
This movie is the Sixties in a nutshell
The Wild Riders will be dismissed by the casual viewer as Mr. Crown's Drive-In Schlock. Actually it is a deeper commentary on the Sixties period, a period that began on January 1, 1963 and ended on March 31, 1973 when the last US Combat Troops came home from Vietnam. This movie is also a commentary on the Manson Family. The Sixties being an era of free love, free movement and free wheeling, kids were hitchhiking all over creation. At the beginning of the movie, our protagonists Stick (Alex Rocco) and Pete (Arell Blanton) crucifying a hippy girl played by Linda Johanesen for sleeping around on Pete. This gets Pete and Stick exiled from their Biker Gang. The two drift out to California and while bullying a nerd at the Griffith Observatory, Pete looks through the telescope and sees two young women home alone. He then plans a trip to their home. He and Stick arrive where Pete comes onto Rona (Porn Actress Elizabeth Knowles). He then decides to break into the back patio/pool area and does. Rona's friend Laure (Sherry Bain) immediately realizes things are going from bad to worse, but is too scared to leave the house or call the cops. After a few days of rape and torture, the man of the house (Ted Hayden) returns and exacts a fatal revenge. The movie is a comment on the Sixties culture, showing the ugly underbelly of it. The movie also is a commentary on how lax the wealthy in Los Angeles and in most areas were with security. Up until the Tate-Labianca murders, stuff like this could easily happen, some Hollywood stars didn't even lock their doors. This movie also showed the fear the wealthy and Hollywood had of the bikers, black radicals and the hippies of invading their privileged spaces. A good time capsule.