Revenge of the Virgins

You can almost smell the mould from the basement they undoubtedly found this one in. At first glance, this film looks like another one of the many low-budget westerns cranked out in the thirties and forties, even though it was made sometime later. It "borrows" its basic idea from THE TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE, i.e. a small group of people go prospecting for gold and fall victim to their own greed. A new twist is that they're prospecting in "injun country," and are being watched by a small all-female tribe.

This brings us to the real point of this movie. All of these Indian maids are TOPLESS. REVENGE OF THE VIRGINS was made at a time when independent film producers were just starting to put nudity into their product. Because this is such an early example, it is a very tame one. It's hard to imagine now that people would actually leave their homes to see a few brief, black and white shots of darkly-photographed breasts - but they did.

For all of you fans of cheap movies,this one is narrated by Ed Wood regular Kenne Duncan, reuses the music from THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS and is directed by Pete Perry - who gave us the amazing KISS ME QUICK!

Revenge of the Virgins (1959)

* 1/2 (out of 4)

A group of men and a woman head into the Old West because one of the men located gold there years earlier. As the group begins their search for gold they come under attack by some topless Indian ladies protecting their land.

REVENGE OF THE VIRGINS is best remembered for being the first nude Western, which I guess is good enough of a reason for people to check this film out. It should be noted that it really does appear that a Western film was taken and edited down with the nude scenes added. I say this because the Western cast is never in the same scene with the nude Indian ladies but I will admit that the filmmakers did a good job at editing the footage together.

With that said, there's really not too many reason to check this out unless you're a fan of sexploitation and want to see this extremely early example of flesh on screen. The Indian ladies are all extremely good looking and show off their breasts whenever their long (fake) hair isn't covering stuff up. As far as the Western film, it's pretty typical for the era and is extremely boring.

REVENGE OF THE VIRGINS is pretty bad on all levels but thankfully it lasts just 53 minutes.

Let's not beat around the busy--this isn't a Howard Hawks or John Ford film. If you're a normal person with pedestrian tastes then go find an episode of Bonanza to watch. For the rest of you though....

Revenge of the Virgins is a sublime nudie-cutie written by the great Ed Wood and directed by Peter Perry Jr who would later go on to produce the fantastic steaming pile of trash "Hollywood High" in 1976.

The acting is about as poor as you could hope for, and the breasts are above average. It's like alchemy!

The plot is pedestrian and could easily have been culled from a long forgotten TV Western...prospector leads a party into Indian territory to find gold, interpersonal conflicts threaten them from within while they are slowly hunted by natives. Except in this film, the natives are nude, buxom beauties.

Revenge of the Virgins is less than an hour long so don't waste any more time--go watch it.

Hard to believe 2 cinematographers receive credit for this. All medium shots, no closeups, and the camera stationary. Inter-cutting within a scene is almost non-existent. Everything feels like it's happening from a distance.

The music score by Gene Kauer was lifted from the previous years THE ASTOUNDING SHE-MONSTER to which he is also credited. Kenne Duncan who narrates this at the beginning and closing portion also acted in aforementioned film.

The print quality of the Something Weird Video release is flawless which shouldn't be too surprising as it's doubtful the negative received any wear and tear beyond generating a few prints for circulation at the time of it's release.

Henry Darrow, who is best known for his awful acting, horribly fake Spanish accent, and bowl haircut when he played Manolito Montoya on High Chapparral; made his screen debut among bouncing breasts in Revenge of the Virgins.

Like the stories in hundreds of other movies and TV Westerns, the white guys are on Indian land trying to steal Indian gold. The only difference in this movie is that the Indians are all topless women. These girls are pretty cute, and they love to dance around topless. They also like to kill any whites that come to their land to find gold. That is gist of the story.

The only reason to fast forward through this movie is for the scenes of the Indian girls. The movie ratings system was not instituted until 1968, or this would have been rated R. The only other notable fact about this movie is that it was written by the notorious Ed Wood, Jr.