SLAVES - DVD-1977-JESS FRANCO

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• Release Year: 1977
• Genre: Crime; Drama
• Plot: An exotic island. A sex club. A kidnapped girl. 5 million in ransom!; Out of all the movies Spanish exploitation film maverick Jess Franco and Swiss producer Erwin C. Deitrich realeased, 1977's SLAVES is perhaps the rarest and most sought after. The film (also known as SWEDISH NYMPHO SLAVES and DIE SKLAVINNEN) stars Franco's wife and muse, the inimitable Lina Romay (MARQUISE DE SADE) in a rare villainous role as Madame Arminda, the owner of a notorious high end brothel called The Pagoda, who overseas the kidnapping and sexual torture and humiliation of a young society girl (Martine Stedil, BARBED WIRE DOLLS). When the girl's father pays the ransom but doesn't get his daughter back, he and his nasty manservant (played by Franco himself!) raid The Pagoda and enslave Arminda, subjecting her to untold indignities while trying to find out what happened to his child.; As with all France/Dietrich productions, SLAVES packs a sleaxy wallop but its grimy doses of sex and violence are juxtaposed by rich production values, gorgeous cinematography by Peter Baumgartner and lush music by Wlater Baumgartner. Filled with enough female nudity to fill 10 films and bolstered by Romay's intense performance, SLAVES is a classic piece of Franco-philia that needs to be seen and is presented here totally uncut and digitally remastered from Dietrich's own negative.
• Cast: Lina Romay; Martine Stedil; Vítor Mendes; Esther Moser; Peggy Markoff; Aida Vargas; Jesús Franco; Raymond Hardy; Ronald Weiss; Yvonne Eduser; Eric Falk; Aida Gouveia; Diotta Fatou; Karl Gysling; Martina Domingo; Gerd Duwner; Roman Huber; Joachim Kemmer; Mike Lederer; Paul Nussbaumer; Erwin C. Dietrich
• Director: Jesús Franco
• Runtime: 1:16
• Company: Full Moon Features
• Media Format: Movie