Pat Anderson was one of the best looking female exploitation stars of the 70s and this movie gets off to a great start with her running out of the surf in a bikini, then getting changed into her stewardess uniform in a cab driven by Dick Miller. Her two co-stars are very pretty, especially Lenore Kasdorf... but that's about as good as it gets.
This is one of the worst of New World's three girls films, due mostly to poor scripting. None of the plots are interesting: Lyllah Torenah is sex mad, which is fine, but also a drug smuggler, which makes her unsympathetic (girls in these movies smoked grass and helped revolutionaries escape from the Man, but they were rarely out-and-out criminals); they also have her kidnapped by baddies early on so she spends most of the movie kidnapped and topless, which is a little uncomfortable. Pat Anderson wants to have sex with a doctor but her mother follows her - she's meant to be Italian but it doesn't work because (a) it's dumb and (b) Anderson doesn't look remotely Italian. Lenore Kasdorf looks around for her boyfriend and romances an Asian guy, which at least is a bit different in a good way.
It's full of dumb scenes and moments - Kasdorf engages in some hilariously unconvincing martial arts with assassins sent to kill her, the girls wind up in a white slave ring and have to be rescued by a man (the doctor) instead of getting out of trouble themselves, too much nudity is tied up with sexual assault. The music is cribbed from other New World films, in particular The Student Nurses, which was much better than this. Pat Anderson deserves better dammit - but she got it with Summer School Teachers.
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