Girls Are for Loving

Say what you want, Cheri Caffaro is an amazing (and committed) screen presence. I can't comment on her acting since it's really beside the point.

Fearless nudity, she sings two numbers wearing almost nothing and puts it all out there. Can she sing? Again, beside the point.

She gets tied to a table fully nude for about 10 minutes.

What's the plot? Who cares?

Who else is in it? Who cares?

Is it a good or bad movie? Who cares?

You're just going to fast-forward anyway.

This third movie in the "Ginger" trilogy also has the benefit of Jocelyne Peters as the villain who also fearlessly does her full frontal nude scenes (and is also tied to a table for 10 minutes totally naked.)

Can Ms. Peters act? Who cares?

Soft-core, sexist, misogynistic trash like this, is, again, the reason fast-forward buttons were invented.

This is the last of the "Ginger" movie series and had a higher budget than the first two films. Bridgette Bardot look-alike Cheri Caffaro is back as Ginger, a private investigator hired by the CIA to infiltrate a spy ring.

The movie opens with a man and a woman making love in a small A-frame lodge. Suddenly the bad guys burst in and grab the man as the woman runs, naked, out into the snow where she is caught by a bad guy and bound to a tree. He, being a bad guy, promptly has sex with her and then, with a broad grin, shoots her. In fact, at various points in the film, all of the evil people show broad grins (must've been part of the Evil Guy recruiting campaign - "Ok, fill out this form and show me your grin.")

The mastermind behind the spy ring is a woman, Ronnie St. Claire, and the CIA has hired Ginger to bodyguard the next probable victim of St. Claire's ring. Sure enough, Ginger and her escort are kidnapped and tied up naked and tortured (well, actually more like taunted and fondled) by St. Claire and her henchmen. Not a girl to lay around, Ginger manages to escape from her bonds and with the help of her escort she captures St. Claire and ties her to the same table to which Ginger had been tied. The kidnapped diplomat/spy that Ginger had been sent to recover is then told to molest St. Claire so that she'll regret ever having been Evil.

In between the beginning of the film and the end, just about everybody ends up naked and bound in one way or another. One interesting scene is: two Evil henchman have been captured and bound naked with their hands above their heads. Actually, they aren't completely naked - they've been dressed in metal jock straps that have an electrical wire poking out right about where their manhood is supposed to be. Ginger flips a switch and the Evil Guys twitch a bit as Ginger gets them to reveal secret information about St. Claire and the hide-out.

And then there's the scene where Ginger, as a test by St. Claire, is strapped naked to a table and told to resist the efforts of her henchman to get her aroused. She fails the test, of course. This scene is repeated at the end, only its St. Claire bound naked on the table and molested by the diplomat. What goes around comes around.

Worth seeing if you don't mind 1970's "B" movie quality film. See the commennts for the first two films, too.

This movie is the 3rd film in the "Ginger Trilogy" after "Ginger" and "The Abductors" respectively. In this particular movie a high-ranking diplomat is kidnapped by a mysterious group who want information pertaining to the "Asian-American Trade Alliance" he was in the process of negotiating. When they discover that he doesn't have the knowledge they want they murder him and then set their sights on a higher level diplomat named "James L. Whitney III" (Scott Ellsworth) who will now assume the responsibility of negotiating the trade pact. Realizing that James Whitney is a potential target the CIA turns to an outside source and recruits "Ginger McAllister" (Cheri Caffaro) to essentially stay with him night and day in order to protect him. But neither the CIA nor Ginger fully fathom just how resourceful their enemy actually is. Now rather than reveal any more of this movie and risk ruining it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this film had some definite good qualities with the two most noticeable being the presence of Cheri Caffaro and Jocelyn Peters (as "Ronnie St. Clair"). Unfortunately, it also suffered from some of the same weaknesses as the other two movies as well. For example, the combat scenes and dialogue were rather clumsy at times and tended to give the movie a Grade-B quality. In short, I thought this movie was essentially on the same level as its predecessors and have rated it accordingly. Average.

It's hard to decide which is more disturbing. That the makers of this movie actually thought viewers could be tricked into believing leading lady Cheri Caffero is beautiful, glamorous, and sophisticated, or that they actually believed it themselves. One doesn't know whether to cringe or laugh at the results.

Surprisingly, the movie does have a bright spot of sorts. The movie begins when a "fourth assistant undersecretary" named "Steve" is stripped and kidnapped with his girlfriend from an A-frame house. The girlfriend is promptly shot dead but Steve is beat-up, questioned, and eventually executed by the evil Ms. St. Clair. The actor playing "Steve" is H-O-T yet he's not even listed in the movie's end credits. Who is this guy?

The worst scene? So many choices, but the prize must go to Cheri Caffero's nightclub number when -- swathed in a cocoon of blue feathers -- she tries to sing and look sexy at the same time.

Girls are for Loving: 4/10: The Ginger films have always been well…different. An acquired taste if you will. An acquired bad taste in particular. The rap against the first two Ginger films (besides the obvious fact that they are misogynistic in the extreme) is that if you took away the sadism, bondage, rape and acres of young nubile flesh on display you would have a pretty bad movie.

This is completely true and as if to prove this fact Girls are for Loving removes the sadism, rape and nubile young flesh completely and is half hearted at best about bondage. So what we have left is one of the most confusing an inept action films I have ever seen.

Sure there is nudity from the two stars (Cherri Caffaro and Jocelyne Peters) and while the ladies aren't quite ready to make up half the Golden Girls sitcom even Mr. Magoo wouldn't mistake them for nubile. (One suspects Caffaro demanded that the producers not allow any naked women less attractive than her after being horrible upstaged by the delicious Jennifer Brooks in her last outing The Abductors. This might also explain why the audience is also forced to sit through not one two entire songs sung by Caffaro in a Las Vegas style review.)

The plot is about as silly as you can get. The bad guys fight like a combination of the Special Olympics and a zombie movie running at half speed. The explosions are half hearted .The sex scenes are... hold on what's the opposite of erotic. The film is shot in that Hart to Hart style of bad seventies television drama.

On the plus side Timothy Brown isn't a bad male lead/action hero and there is a Kelsey Grammar look-alike that brought me much mirth. But this simply doesn't feel like a real Ginger movie. Towards the end of the film the villain captures the ambassador's nubile daughter so the government will give her stock tips (I told you the plot is silly) anyhow in the last two Ginger movies this nineteen-year old beauty would be stripped, whipped and god knows what else.

Instead she is released unmolested and fully clothed. Caffaro, for the umpteenth time, however is tied naked to a table. Which would work better if she didn't look like someone's mom.