This is an Italian decamerotici, basically a
portmanteau-style movie of sexy, period-based tales inspired
by Pier Passolini's Decameron and other Trilogy Of Life Movies.
While some of these decamerotic were loosely based on Boccacio's
famous literary work The Decameron (via the Pasolin film), this
is very, very loosely based on 1001 Arabian Nights.
It is set in Arabia and the characters are all costumed accordingly,
but sex-minded stories, the obsession with female sexual satisfaction
and cuckoldry, and gay-panic humor in the second story are all
VERY 20th-century Italian .
The frame story involves a powerful sultan who is unable
to, um, rise to the occasion with a new harem girl (Femi Benussi)
even after she does a very sexy dance of the seven veils for
him.
He brings in three storytellers to, uh, inspire him with sexy
tales.
The first story is about another powerful sultan who become
jealous of the town stud and wants to test his prowess by
putting him in a dark room and seeing if he can identify each
of several town girls who he sends in to have sex with him.
But it all goes horribly awry.
The second story is a variation on Aladin and the genie, but
Aladin here is a horny sod who really only wants to have sex
with the wife of a rich merchant (Barabara Bouchet, who could
blame him?).
The magic flying carpet the genie gives him will not go down
until the couple on it have had sex three times.
But what happens when the wrong people end up on it?
The third story is about a cruel princess who executes any
man who can't satisfy her thirteen times in one night.
This was directed by Anthony Dawson (aka Anthony Marghereti).
He is not in the class of Pasolini perhaps, but he was probably
one of the more talented directors to have done films in this
genre.
Although neither was Italian, Barbara Bouchet and Femi Benussi
were both ubiquitous (and ubiquitously naked) in 70's Italian
exploitation fare like this.
Barbara Marzano, who some may recognize as the big-breasted
girl dancing topless at the hippie party in Torso, plays a
local girl in the first story who the Sultan tries to Dehydrate
so the guy in the room doesn't recognize her bounteous bosoms
(it doesn't work).
She was also memorable in Ferdinand DiLeo's The Seduction.
Cast:
Femi Benussi, Barbara Bouchet, Pupo De Luca, Ignazio Leone,
Gastone Pescucci, Gigi Ballista, Esmeralda Barros, Carla Mancini,
Gino Milli, Barbara Betti, Vassili Karis, Barbara Marzano,
Elisabeth Felchner, Salvatore Puntillo
Director:
Antonio Margheriti |
