Softcore Reviews

This movie does not pretend to be anything other than what it is—a low-budget b-movie romp that delivers some laughs and more than a few bouncing bazoongas. It’s the type of flick that some people will call a cult classic, others will call trash…

We are going through a Golden Age of reissuing 1970s softcore on DVD, and have given a long-debased genre its due, uncovering rare and surprising items. Here we have a series called Classics of French Erotica, featuring three forgotten independent French movies from the early to late 1970s. Unfortunately, when you’re mining for gold, sometimes you end up digging up lumps of coal instead…

It’s not often that we review hardcore movies here at Softcore Reviews. We’ll make an exception for this one on the basis of historical relevance…

The films of Joe Sarno’s greatest period, the 1970s, are all well-known, but his movies from a decade earlier are lesser-known and in many cases lost forever. Here’s one such movie except—lo and behold, in 2008, somebody found a pristine negative in a vault.

What we have here is not so much softcore as the historical gateway drug to softcore. With no nudity and no sex, this movie is tame even by 1966 standards, but there’s something about it that leaves you wanting more…