Girls Are for Loving (1973)

Who payed the critics

Too much of everything

One of the worst movies I've ever seen

just watch it!

As with the first two "Ginger" movies(Ginger and The Abductors), Girls are for Loving is fun in that cheesy 70s way that you will really only find in films from this decade. This one has the biggest budget of the three, the most competent actors, the best direction - in point of fact, it is easily the best made of the three. Cheri Caffaro as Ginger seems so at ease with her role in this one that her performance(and that word can be defined in oh so many ways) out-shines her previous two stints as the James Bond girl out this time to save some trade treaty fiasco. Plot-wise this one is sketchy at best, but you won't care what with Ginger being naked most of the time and when she is not she has on skin-tight white pants or some other revealing outfit. Aiding and abetting her is Jocelyne Peters as the villainess Ronnie St. Clair(love that name). Peters is beautiful, can act, and I just loved that voice. I am surprised she really didn't go on to do much after this film, but then being tied spread-eagled nude and then forced upon by a male in similar dress might not have spurred that career the way she might have hoped - too much laying on the job one might suppose. The film has a nice pace, lots of inferior yet entertaining action scenes, and some great one-liners(most delivered by Ginger). The low point of the film is Caffaro dressed in a blue fur belting out a song with lines like "Cheese entertains," etc... Caffaro cannot sing very well, but then again the scene is save by the number ultimately being a striptease act. While my favourite of the series is the first for more sentimental reasons and some God-awful sets and acting fashioned into enjoyable entertainment, Girls are for Loving is first-rate sleazy entertainment. Where is Caffaro now? Shouldn't Quentin Taranteno being using her in a film. She would be perfect in one of his vehicles.

The third of the 'Ginger' series and the one that had all the money spent on it. For much of it's length this is a cheap, crap Bond wannabe. But it also wants to have it's gutsy, attractive star, Cheri Caffaro naked most of the time (when dressed she has a different costume every time) and it also wants to be a bondage movie. So, along the often tedious way but especially during the more concentrated last half an hour we get lots of tying up culminating, it has to be said, in a couple of super naked spread eagle tie downs. Even that is not all. Our bound girls are told by the other (on both occasions) that they will be raped whilst in this restricted position AND that they will not be able to resist enjoying it. I cannot recall another film where this idea of women trying NOT to enjoy the forced act is made so explicit. The fact that with the role reversal revenge we get it all again with exactly the same connotations rams home the point (as you might say)!

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.

This film is a continuation of the Ginger series, with Cheri Caffaro once again playing the gorgeous, very-hot-for-sex female spy. Lots of action, in exotic, outdoor settings, on the water, at nightclubs, and parties. As is Cheri's trademark, there is no shortage at all of sex, including kidnapped and tied-up innocent women, male masochism, and lots of full nudity, but this time we get an expansion of the bondage theme, as Ginger's antagonist is another beautiful lady, Ronnie St. Claire (Jocelyne Peters), ensuring female dominance of the film--the two women, with their entourage of men, vs. each other. Ronnie enjoys sex too, and like Ginger, with the enemy as well, but paradoxically (and definitely unlike Ginger) resists pleasure and being conquered, wanting control instead. This theme is played out until the climax, by which time we have seen each lead bombshell woman bond the other, fully naked and spread eagled, for the pleasure of the men, yes, but most of all to test the other on resistance to genuine sexual fulfillment. Guys, don't miss this one.