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BACK HOME |
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A CLOSER LOOK IN TO THE WORLD OF OLGA !!! |
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WHITE SLAVES OF CHINATOWN
(Jul 7, 1964) |
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OLGA'S HOUSE OF SHAME
(-Feb. 6, 1964) |
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OLGA'S GIRLS
(Sep. 30, 1964)
Extra distribution cited as being through Audubon FIlm and Olympic International |
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MNE. OLGA'S MASSAGE PARLOR
(July 8, 1965) |
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OLGA'S DANCE HALL GIRLS
(1966?) |
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It is usually noted that WHITE SLAVES OF CHINATOWN is the first Olga film, but after looking at the AFI playdate for OLGA'S HOUSE OF SHAME, it's one-sheet looking more rough than the more polished vision of WHITE SLAVES... (Which looks a bit like the sheet for CHAINED GIRLS), and the descrition of the film in the AFI book being very brief compared to the other Campbell-starred films, it is a strong possibility that OLGA'S HOUSE OF SHAME could be the first. Pushing this guessing aside, however, is easy to do, as this is a classic S/M film featuring Olga and her girls in a deserted mill complete with several great scenes. Olga's image of a sharp styled leader and master of a whip was way above anything in the Exploit Film world, leading to the interest in these films all of these years, and the film's scenes of a hot iorn aimed for a clevage, torturing a victim with a wire brush, using an electric chairm and other harsh punishments blended in with the Sin and Skin action, are ground- breaking as well as the film's campy but strong mix of Prostitution Ring ("White Slavery") stories which would be a trend in the Exploit field for a while, Hard Drug syndicate stories, and the ever-popular (at least for the 42'nd Street fans) punishment initiations.
In this, Olga and her brother (W. B. Parker) control a crime syndicate that has a number of seductive girls carrying out the evil and getting punished if they fail. Olga's brother, Nick, is the classic aide-to-evil who's close-up is quite the ugly mug, and a new member to the crew is introduced in Elaine after convincing her that being with Olga is the way to go after her time with Nadia, someone brought in by one of Olga's linksetters (someone who is not used in other films). Elaine's uase of the whip ignights Olga's lust (forget "passion," this is OLGA not GONE WITH THE WIND!) and it would be her excellent performance which would make Weiss and Mawra decide to use her in the Post-Campbell MASSAGE PALOR, which has it's ad put in as an extra. There are some Hollywood producers who like to create the occasional risky film, but their creations are nothing compared to the raw and low-budget madness on display here.
This is also known as 36 HOURS OF TERROR (A better name for a fest of recent Hollywood hits) and HOUSE OF SHAME. |
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WHITE SLAVES OF CHINATOWN brings the action to New York's Chinatown district, and introduces a new member(Lenore Rhein), a major rival in Collette (Rickey Bell), and a victim in Elaine (Marlaina Abbie). Top it off with the usual Prostitution and Drug stories, Kinky Torture devices, an abortion of an addict (Abbie) who dies (Weiss playing the doctor!), and on-screen lesbianism, and another Exploit classic is made. This film was played up in the end with a classic "White Coat" explaination warning against the use of hard drugs, but I wonder if anyone in the audience actually cared about that as the OLGA series was really one kinky classic scene after another, although it does remind the viewer of Weiss' Roadshow past. The Chinese music can get overplayed, but the striking visuals and the sharper plot make up for the negatives, as well as the excellent line-up for the "photo shoot" at the end. This is also known as WHITE SLAVES. |
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OLGA'S GIRLS Renames Olga from Petroff to Salgo (as it should be in the Crime World!), but everything else is even more sick, perverted, and great for the third round as she kidnapps a member of a rival gang (Darlene Bennett-usually seen in the very low-budget films of Barry Mahon), gets into a fight with a snitch in the organisation under orders from "Mr. B" ("Snitches will taken care of" Lynn Fromme-MANSON, 1972), and "blow torches" another when wearing a cape of persuasion-making me wonder if HG Lewis saw this in thinking about the opening to SOMETHING WEIRD (The great-looking clothes are something all good schoolgirls should be into!), and more. Other great scenes include an electricution, a pot party, and a tounge-cutting. The film was distributed through Radly Metzger's Audubon, and there was a mention of Bob Cresse's Olympic International promoting it as well, a tribute to the film's harsher torture and style! |
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MADAME OLGA'S MASSAGE PARLOR
switches leaders after Campbell left the scene, but despite a slight toning-down, it is still another good shot of sleaze as a massage parlor is used as a front for the games played by some of secondary players of the series, as Elaine from OLGA'S HOUSE OF SHAME provides some excellent style while the health club setting is a perfect way to bring in the torture devices, Still, despite the style being there, it will be proven that the "Old Management" will always be the best in the world of Olga. OLGA'S DANCE HALL GIRLS (1966) is something else, as it was not made by the same team that brought us the first three films (A wild guess is William Rose of THE SMUT PEDDLER infamy), but it still has some decent stripping action and a good plot twist that should have been more developed as a "Dance Hall" (Strip Club) is used as a front for a Satanic Cult complete with the usual rituals and bare essentials. DANCE HALL GIRLS also includes Doris Wishman regular Larry Hunter as one of the head honchos, but the main attraction here is watching a group of cute women in Satanic outfits performing out their fantasies during the start and the end, leaving the viewer in a state of not caring about who really made this quickly made film, although the Olga here is lacking in the cool Campbell brought to the name in 1964 and that the time-wasting Job Interview scene proved that Hunter was best at licking feet and not talking.
It may be a bit of a specualtion, but I do think that there is a bit of link between the George Weiss/Leroy Griffith film THE CASE OF THE STRIPPING WIVES, and DANCE HALL GIRLS, knowing Mawra's moving down to FLA for his last few years of Film and Hunter's character having his name changed between Nick and Vince. There was a bit of Satanic Cutie action in THE WEIRD WORLD OF LSD, done by a couple who would do the lensed-in-FLA film FIREBALL JUNGLE, there is a possible story with all put together. |
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Mention must be said of a film called MONDO OSCENITA, a compilation of clips from the vaults of American issued in 1966 (AFI playdate, June 30, 1966). Ranging from imports like SUNSWEPT (AFI playdate July 31, 1963) and MY BABY IS BLACK (AFI playdate Feb. 10, 1965) and even a touch of Ed Wood outtake footage, bits of the OLGA series are played in order to challenge the viewer about the subject of censorship...or really to show off these wonderful scenes again in a White Coat style best-of collection. |
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| Using a number of great information sources to gather all of this wild information on these B-Films can get very confusing and mind-bending, and when they range from The American Film Institue catalog of Motion Pictures (Kenneth White Munden and Richard P. Krufsar, editors - published in 1976 by R. R. Bowker), various websites like the official Something Weird website and it's various linernotes to it's releases by noted writers and experts in the world of this world of film, and to the writings of the legends like Michael Weldon and Bill Landis, it blends in all kinds of facts and figures that sometimes contradict, but always amuse. |
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