Ginger (1971)

One of my all time favorites.

Good movie but grossly overrated

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

How come in the 1970s movies they did the best and most erotic femfight scenes? Just think about "The Amazons" (1973) In the beginning of this movie Ginger is challenged on the beach by a group of bad girls. She ends up fighting the girls ringleader in a a short violent tussle in the sand. Tough blonde Ginger defeats her brunette adversary and strips her of her bikini, while continueing to beat her. Ginger uses the bikini of the losing girl to tie up her arms and legs. As the girls tries to get up Ginger sends her crashing back into the sand and into humiliating defeat by a swift kick of her sexy foot into her oppnents belly.

A good setup and a sexy-as-hell (if obviously inexperienced; this was her film debut, after all) leading lady get bogged down by static pacing, poorly lit night scenes, very little and very mediocre action, distasteful (as opposed to tasteful) (s)exploitation, and contradictory genre politics: the filmmakers make Ginger a dominant character most of the way, only to subvert all that in the last 10 minutes. Clearly a B-grade production, "Ginger" somehow remains watchable in spite of its flaws - and as much as I try, I can't think of any reason other than the fact that Cheri Caffaro is so uninhibitedly sexy. Best line (while she's simultaneously kissing and interrogating another woman): "You go on and I'll go on". ** out of 4.

Oh, I know the acting is wobbly, the plot clanks like a medieval dungeon, and the cinematography is dodgy. But this is pure '70s sexploitation.I loved it.Yes it is sexist, unpc and everything modern Hollywood tries not to be. But that is its charm. It is about cute women toting unfeasable weapons and getting naked in an unbelievable B-movie plot. So what? That's what we want with this stuff.If you want boring and complacent cinema, go watch a movie with Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon.....

This film is the first of a 3-film series, and is the worst of the 3, mainly because the other two films have the benefit of a higher budget due to profits from the first film.In this series-opener, our hero Ginger, played by Cheri Caffaro (who won a Bridgett Bardot look-alike contest as a teenager) plays a private investigator who infiltrates a gang of women. As part of her initiation she fights the leader, with the loser being stripped naked and tied up on the beach. The rest of the movie follows pretty much the same theme: women finding one reason or another to get tied up nude and sometimes having sex.One redeeming quality about this film is that its one of the few films to openly use bondage as a recurring event and still come away with a mainstream "R" rating in the US. This is because the film (and the series as a whole) has the benefit of being made in that window of time called the Sexual Liberation and before the feminists and Politically Correct enthusiasts got ahold of the movie industry and theatres. In fact, the "Ginger" series might have disappeared all together had it not been for three simple technological inventions: the VCR, the home computer, and the Internet. Now, like-minded individuals can get together and express their common interests, including mainstream "B" movie bondage/adventure films.Collectors will want to get all three films, but those on a budget will probably just want the second film ("The Abductors") and the third film ("Girls Are For Loving").