Flucht zurück ins Paradies

This used to play all the time on Cinemax back in the halcyon days of 1991-1994, when Cinemax would show a lot of foreign T&A like this movie, the Lady Chatterly movies, the Black Emmanuelle movies, Sahara Heat, and the Marilyn Chambers softcore canon. This film does not disappoint, as there is gratuitous frontal nudity, passionate lesbianism, and a ridiculous plot involving a dictator or something. Hubert Frank is one of the unheralded masters of softcore cinema. Check out his film "Angel and the Beasts" for more fun. "Escape to Paradise" made sneaking into the living room at night worth it when I was twelve. I mastered the art of watching a movie with the sound barely audible thanks to this movie. Thank you Cinemax!

I caught this film many years ago one night one Cinemax. And I wish the day arises that Cinemax and showtime air films like this, instead of their own compilations and other ones they show ad nausea.

The actress, billed in the states as Natalie Moore, has to be simply one of the most photogenic women ever born. Even with the silly plot that somehow leads to an attempt to rob a bank, you find yourself simply watching the movie for her and her alone.

Natalie Moore should have been the 1980's version of Sybil Danning are Slivia Kristal. Why she wasn't constantly making movies I'll never know.

My only annoyance with this film is that through countless attempts on Amazona and Ebay, I've only found PAL versions of this film. Until I own a copy of this film, I will never consider my film library complete.

I encourage anyone who gets a chance to own a DVD of VHS copy, to do so, cost be damned! This is one of the greatest imported soft core porn films ever made, bar none!

A young French girl (Natalie Uher) is in love with her teacher. To get away from the situation, she decides to go on vacation to Portugal. But because of an airline strike, she opts to hitch a ride on the private plane of a wealthy, middle-aged jet-setter, who promptly drugs her, kidnaps her, and takes her to his villa in what is supposed to be North Africa (it looks like Reunion or the Canary Islands). It turns out he is not planning to sell her into white slavery (damn!), but wants to use her for a hare-brain scheme to seduce his own son, who has developed an "Oedipus complex" and run off with his step-mother (the rich man's wife). Of course, being the typical badly dubbed Euro-sexpot, our girl ends up seducing pretty much everybody, INCLUDING the step-mom. And just to complicate matters, the island is experiencing a revolt from third-world "revolutionaries" (who are unwashed, but strangely all-white), and they keep kidnapping our tres luscious heroine and tying her butt-naked to a stake and what-not. . .

Here's another softcore sex fantasy from the redoubtable (just try to doubt him only once!) Hubert Frank. Though less famous than other Euro-sex filmmakers of that era like Jesus Franco or Joe D'Amato, the German Frank is also much more underrated. Like a lot of Euro-sex filmmakers, he takes his softcore erotica to "exotic" and scenic locales, but he's also famous for including a lot of surprisingly competent action sequences (complete with impressive stunt-work and aerial plane and helicopter footage). I'm not personally a fan of softcore/actions films of American Andy Sidaris , but I think Sidaris fans would really appreciate the combination of sex/nudity and well-edited action scenes in Frank films. Frank also always adds a touch of the Jess Franco polymorpous perversity (the boy and stepmother)and the whip-lash inducing tone changes Joe D'Amato was famous for (like D'Amato Frank's films careen wildly from jolly to serious to downright appalling and back again). It's so much more interesting than the softcore sex films of today, which are five minutes of stupid story/exposition followed by ten minutes of boring sex. rinse and repeat, and no one ever leaves the San Fernando Valley condo because they're too cheap to get film permits!

With this particular film, Frank is also treading a little into David Hamilton territory in that his lead, the beautiful Natalie Uher, was (according to highly unreliable IMDb dates) only 16 at the time! But if this what a lot of 16-year-olds look like with their clothes off, then we should all just go voluntarily register as sex offenders and get it over with.(She looks a lot older than 16 to me though). Uher would go to appear in German "Playboy" and then become "Emmanuelle 6". She was a natural beauty who should NEVER have worn clothes. She wasn't much of an actress, but then it's hard to be when you're clumsily dubbed into English.

This one was pretty hard to find, but I'm glad I finally found it.

I can't believe someone else reviewed this film! What more needs to be said? We've got beautiful women and not much plot. I just bought this not long ago. It'd been about 11 years since I'd seen it last. And it didn't disappoint.

A 10 from me!