Rolls Royce Baby

Swiss director Erwin C. Dietrich is responsible for producing some of Franco's best movies, including JACK THE RIPPER, FRAUENGEFANGIS, and TROPICAL INFERNO, but as a director, manages to be more consistently enjoyable than Franco. His gore-sodden, laugh-riot biker thriller MAD FOXES, the near-hardcore WIP exploiter CAGED WOMEN, and NIGHT OF THE FEMALE COLONEL - the latter two starring Brigitte Lahaie - are well worth a look. So is this one, even if it is quite repetitive to watch, being not that much more than your usual hardcore filth. The plot, or what counts as one, involves a young woman (Romay, who looks stunning here) who gets humiliated by two crude long-distance truckers whilst hitch-hiking. After they've both had their way with her, they throw her out of the truck and keep her clothes.

She becomes rich and famous, thanks to a fortuitous movie-role. The incident is still very much on her mind, and she apends her days reversing the role she played. Picking up numerous lucky sods in the back of her Rolls Royce, and satisfying herself on them, she drives off and moves onto the next.

Dietrich regular Eric Falk plays her chauffeur, and almost steals the show with his scenes of intense, straight-into-the-camera kung-fu, clad in a pair of disappearing karate trousers. These are the standouts of the movie, as is the sequence where the truck-driver gets a fit of the giggles watching Romay get off with his mate.

The rest of the film concentrates on hardcore couplings, but these are very nicely-shot in bright yellow and greens, mirroring the countryside where Romay's character lives. Most hardcore movies get more than a little tedious with their repetitiveness, and this one is no exception, but at least Dietrich has the good sense to throw in a lot of humour.

Any movie that has Lina Romay brushing her pubes in close-up can't be all bad, can it?

I freely admit that I watched this movie simply for the sight of Lina Romay, nude and in her prime. It was well worth it, if that's what you're looking for. The previous reviewer mentions hardcore more than once, but all I saw was a lot of spread-eagled female nudity; being male I have absolutely no problem with that.

Lina Romay is in her prime here, young and fresh. She has a habit of driving around in her Rolls, naked and spread out in the back, picking up any hitchhikers she may see; male or female.

There is nothing special about the plot, you could say the whole plot is nothing more than an excuse to show Lina nude, and you would probably be right. The photography is good and clear, the production values are good, and the acting....well, how much acting do you really want to see in a movie like this? What acting there was on display was acceptable, let's leave it at that.

It's too bad that today's sexploitation films think they need some thinly veiled reason to show naked women: comedy, horror, whatever. Rolls Royce Baby presents no excuse and glories in it. If you like watching beautiful naked women then check it out, you won't be sorry.

The PAL ABCDVD release appears to be completely uncut. This movie is very porn-like in nature.

This particular DVD has a blow job scene with Lina Romay & it contains a lot of nudity including parts of both male & female anatomy.

Definitely not something you want the kids to see. It is a relatively slow film about a nymphomaniac (Romay) who has her driver driving her around while she has sex in her Rolls Royce.

Not something I can recommend unless you're a Romay fan or a fan of classic erotica.

If you want to see a good Lina Romay film, then definitely check out Jess Franco's Eugenie.

Erwin C. Dietrich's Rolls-Royce Baby is the perfect example of pornography with elegance in terms of music, design, atmosphere, color, and ultimately sex and masturbation. The film stars Lina Romay as Lisa, a sex-addict who is launching into stardom but still needs her sexual fix, just more discreetly. She resorts to constantly masturbating in her private time, hitchhiking to have sex, and eventually getting a chauffeur (Eric Falk) to drive a Rolls-Royce while she has sex in the back seat of her car.

The film works on levels often higher than American pornographic cinema at the time which was focused on the birth of conventions, chic, and making names out of its stars (many of them, the hard way as we came to learn in future decades). Rolls-Royce Baby, made in West Germany, seems to be more concerned with decadence in its sex scenes, as well as atmosphere and effect. For example, the opening scene, which depicts Romay completely nude, albeit crotch-less fishnets, in her spacious mansion. She is sitting on her rocking chair, masturbating and in her room is beautiful carpeting, a beautiful red leather chair, as well as gorgeous lights and a soothing, sensual environment. Dietrich employs lengthy long shots, allowing our eyes to move around the scene's specific location to absorb the aura of whatever room he focuses on.

It also helps that Romay is the gorgeous soul she is, lean, pale, with curly and lively black hair, almost always entirely nude throughout the whole film and consistently engaging in a wide variety of sexual activity. Dietrich doesn't discriminate, allowing various positions of masturbation, oral sex, lesbian sex, and even group sex to engage before his camera. The film has an erotic power to its material, combining Romay's goddess-like traits with an accompanying xylophone tune that you will hear in your sleep and the incredible atmospheres from Lisa's mansion to the outskirts of West Germany while she travels in her Rolls-Royce.

The film is almost incomparable to films of America's "Golden Age of Porn." Despite showing both full-frontal male and female nudity, compared to the standards set forth by films such as Debbie Does Dallas and Deep Throat, Rolls-Royce Baby is rather tame. However, it has the power of mesmerizing based on the attributes of its set design and its lead actress, both of which are stunning and capable of holding ones attention. Rolls-Royce Baby, thus far, may be the best pornographic film aesthetically that I've seen thus far.

Starring: Lina Romay and Eric Falk. Directed by: Erwin C. Dietrich.

Rolls-Royce Baby (1975)

** (out of 4)

Dietrich, best known for producing several Jess Franco films, takes the director's chair and delivers an average sexploitation film, which stars Lina Romay. In the film, Romay plays a sex addict who has become a famous movie star. To get her sexual needs, she has her chauffeur (Eric Falk) drive her around in the Rolls-Royce to pick up various men and women for sex. This film is pretty much softcore except for a small oral scene and this mix really gives the film a what the hell feel because I'm not quite sure what Dietrich was going for. The film is never really erotic because the sex scenes are more graphic than anything else but at the same time they never go hardcore so all of the scenes are in a rather strange mix in terms of what's going on. When I first watched this film I was shocked to see Romay doing the oral sex scenes but since then I've seen over a hundred Franco movies and know that Romay has gone onto do countless hardcore movies. She's pretty good in the film and one could argue that she's never looked better. The film opens up with her shaving her private areas with a straight razor so she certainly isn't shy. In the end the film comes off rather flat but fans of Romay will certainly want to take the ride (no pun of course).