
Original
Italian title AVVENTURA
AL MOTEL [Adventure in a Motel]
director:
Renato Polselli (Ralph Brown)
starring: Eva Bartok · Anthony Stephen · Maria Pia Luzi · Margaret Lee
· Franco Franchi · Ciccio Ingrassia

Popular
cult director Renato Polselli delivers an Italian sex comedy containing
a series of interrelation stories about people who have illicit affairs
in a motel. Among the sketches is one about a starlet and a pilot, another
dealing with two a pair of competing Casanovas, plus a company manager
and his secretary. Here is a fascinating look at morality in the mid '60s,
just before the Love Generation. It must have seemed very shocking
at the time, while today, it raises more eyebrows due to the politically
incorrect themes of relationships between the sexes.
This
is quite a rarity from director Polselli, made just before his VAMPIRE
OF THE OPERA. He usually made films under the pseudonym ‘Ralph
Brown’ and is best known for DELIRIUM,
TRUTH
ACCORDING TO SATAN and BLACK
MAGIC RITES AND SECRET ORGIES OF 14th CENTURY. As his career continued,
Mr Polselli films became more excessive; some critics wrote that he had
gone insane. Two films, REVELATIONS
OF A PSYCHIATRIST ON THE PERVERSE WORLD OF SEX and OSCENITA
marked the start of his 'extravagant period,' both contained hardcore
(XXX) segments and cultural taboos. In the early '80s, after a
brief retirement, he returned with a series of highly unusual hardcore
movies (including WHITE
MOUTH BLACK MOUTH and THE
WOMAN AND HER HOT BEAST. Renato Polselli died of natural causes
at age 84 in October of 2006.
Director
Polselli is credited as 'discovering' actor Anthony Steffen, born
Antonio Luiz De Teffè in Rome Italy. After appearing in numerous
early Polselli films [see pic, below center], Steffen switched to the
lucrative Spaghetti Western field. He became one of the few consistently
bankable stars of the genre (DJANGO
THE BASTARD, COFFIN
FOR A SHERIFF, SEVEN
DOLLARS ON THE RED et al). But over the years. Anthony
Steffen has also appeared in many other cult favorites including the S&M
thriller NIGHT
EVELYN CAME OUT OF THE GRAVE, Marisa Mell's perverse thriller
THE
CHAINED, and the sexy giallo TROPIC
OF CANCER. Mr Steffen died from cancer at age 73, July 2004.
Maria
Pia Luzi - better known by her alias Jane Avril - made the adult SciFi
thriller PLANETS
AGAINST US just prior to this film. She met and married insane
director Alberto Cavallone in the late '60s. She spent a career starring
her husband's borderline crazy productions from MAN,
THE WOMAN AND THE BEAST to ZELDA
before retiring in 1977.
And lastly,
Franco Franchi starred in over 100 movies as part of an Italian comedy
duo with partner Ciccio Ingrassia. A couple years later (in 1965), they
made a similar Italian sex comedy with Jayne Mansfield called PRIMITIVE
LOVE. Franco was also amazing (playing Marlon Brando's role) in
the parody LAST
TANGO IN ZAGAROL. He died in December of 1992 at age 64. Ciccio
died ten years later, April 2003 at 80.


An
Italian film with English subtitles; uncut (90 minutes);
DVD encoded
for ALL REGIONS NTSC FORMAT; extras include selected trailers
SemiNudity/Adult
Material/Sexuality:
For Mature Audiences

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