A rich society girl is recruited to go undercover and expose a drug/blackmail/prostitution ring in her small town.A rich society girl is recruited to go undercover and expose a drug/blackmail/prostitution ring in her small town.A rich society girl is recruited to go undercover and expose a drug/blackmail/prostitution ring in her small town.
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Casey Donovan
- Rodney
- (as Calvin Culver)
Lise Mauer
- Elizabeth Anderson
- (as Lise D. Mauer)
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Tracey Walter
- Ginger's Brother
- (as Tracey Walters)
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Sexploitation at its best
Oh, I know the acting is wobbly, the plot clanks like a medieval dungeon, and the cinematography is dodgy. But this is pure '70s sexploitation.
I loved it.
Yes it is sexist, unpc and everything modern Hollywood tries not to be. But that is its charm. It is about cute women toting unfeasable weapons and getting naked in an unbelievable B-movie plot. So what? That's what we want with this stuff.
If you want boring and complacent cinema, go watch a movie with Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon.....
I loved it.
Yes it is sexist, unpc and everything modern Hollywood tries not to be. But that is its charm. It is about cute women toting unfeasable weapons and getting naked in an unbelievable B-movie plot. So what? That's what we want with this stuff.
If you want boring and complacent cinema, go watch a movie with Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon.....
Utterly worthless? You be the judge.
In my honest opinion, watching this movie qualifies as an utter waste of life. I can't think of any other movie (I hesitate to call this a "film") that displays less intrinsic value to the viewer. As a matter of fact, I feel dumber for having seen it. Beware the "chicks and bullets" cover, it's utterly misleading, and there is nothing remotely erotic in there. If you're in the mood to be utterly disgusted, by all means watch it. As a matter of fact, this movie engenders a certain dissapointment in the human race in general for having produced it.
Not For Those Who Are Easily Offended
"Ginger' (Cheri Caffaro) is a young woman from New York who has been recruited by a private investigative company to gather intelligence on a criminal named "Rex Halsey" (Duane Tucker) who has a small operation in New Jersey which capitalizes on drugs, prostitution and blackmail. To get the evidence required for a conviction she has to infiltrate his small circle of accomplices and the last two who tried have ended up dead. Now rather than reveal any more of this movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that I found this to be a sleazy but somewhat entertaining film all the same. Having said that I should probably add that this movie is not for those who are easily offended as it contains scenes with full frontal nudity, bondage, rape and racial slurs. Along with that it was a low-budget film which includes some weak fighting scenes, a poor script and some very basic acting. But Cheri Caffaro does a decent enough job in spite of it all and manages to keep the film moving along all the same. Likewise, having attractive young ladies like Michele Norris (as "Vicki Jennings"), Cindy Barnett ("Jean Oliver") and the aforementioned Cheri Caffaro certainly didn't hurt. Accordingly, I rate this movie as about average.
This "Ginger" lacks spice
I don't have too much else to post here that the previous commenters haven't mentioned. Extremely cheap (a lot of it obviously filmed in motel rooms), surprisingly unerotic despite the ample nudity and sex, and sorely lacking in action and excitement. And with a lead character running around all of this who never comes across as cunning, intelligent, or even sexy. The movie is also sorely lacking linking footage, with people all of a sudden in situations that come out nowhere, or their fates left up to question. Apparently, the filmmakers didn't care enough to show us this, so why should we at all for the entire movie?
The first of a three-movie series
This film is the first of a 3-film series, and is the worst of the 3, mainly because the other two films have the benefit of a higher budget due to profits from the first film.
In this series-opener, our hero Ginger, played by Cheri Caffaro (who won a Bridgett Bardot look-alike contest as a teenager) plays a private investigator who infiltrates a gang of women. As part of her initiation she fights the leader, with the loser being stripped naked and tied up on the beach. The rest of the movie follows pretty much the same theme: women finding one reason or another to get tied up nude and sometimes having sex.
One redeeming quality about this film is that its one of the few films to openly use bondage as a recurring event and still come away with a mainstream "R" rating in the US. This is because the film (and the series as a whole) has the benefit of being made in that window of time called the Sexual Liberation and before the feminists and Politically Correct enthusiasts got ahold of the movie industry and theatres. In fact, the "Ginger" series might have disappeared all together had it not been for three simple technological inventions: the VCR, the home computer, and the Internet. Now, like-minded individuals can get together and express their common interests, including mainstream "B" movie bondage/adventure films.
Collectors will want to get all three films, but those on a budget will probably just want the second film ("The Abductors") and the third film ("Girls Are For Loving").
In this series-opener, our hero Ginger, played by Cheri Caffaro (who won a Bridgett Bardot look-alike contest as a teenager) plays a private investigator who infiltrates a gang of women. As part of her initiation she fights the leader, with the loser being stripped naked and tied up on the beach. The rest of the movie follows pretty much the same theme: women finding one reason or another to get tied up nude and sometimes having sex.
One redeeming quality about this film is that its one of the few films to openly use bondage as a recurring event and still come away with a mainstream "R" rating in the US. This is because the film (and the series as a whole) has the benefit of being made in that window of time called the Sexual Liberation and before the feminists and Politically Correct enthusiasts got ahold of the movie industry and theatres. In fact, the "Ginger" series might have disappeared all together had it not been for three simple technological inventions: the VCR, the home computer, and the Internet. Now, like-minded individuals can get together and express their common interests, including mainstream "B" movie bondage/adventure films.
Collectors will want to get all three films, but those on a budget will probably just want the second film ("The Abductors") and the third film ("Girls Are For Loving").
Did you know
- TriviaGinger includes Cheri Caffaro's first nude scenes. She was 25 at the time. In a 1974 interview, she explained why she decided to get naked and how it was very upsetting. "Nudity is one way to get into the movies. I'm not saying it's the best way, but right now (the early 1970s) we're going though a nude cycle so you have to go along with it." She started auditioning for movies in her early 20s, but they all required nudity, which she did not want to do. But, she said, she finally got tired of fighting it after not being cast in anything. "I took the role of Ginger....There were some nude scenes in the picture, but I decided it would be all right." When the time came to film her first scene, suddenly she was not so sure. "I looked at all of the technicians and crew members and got upset. But I'd signed the contract and I don't believe in not keeping my word. So I stepped in front of the camera without a stitch on." When she noticed the mostly male group staring at her, she remembers blushing all over. Director Don Schain was so impressed with her, he cast her for the sequel, where she again spent considerable time running around and even performing fight scenes naked, as well as having steamy borderline X-rated sex scenes with naked guys. At that point, Caffaro said being exposed in front of everyone was habit forming. She and Schain started a relationship and soon got married. He directed her in a few more films and asked his wife to get naked in all of them. She said being married to him actually made her more comfortable and secure being nude. She then joked that the naked male actors she had sex scenes with were a lot more nervous, because they knew they were kissing her and fondling her body in front of her husband.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Twisted Sex Vol. 19 (1998)
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- $872,256
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- 1h 30m(90 min)
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- 1.85 : 1
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