Les banquiers du vice

As soon as this movie started it was like a breath of fresh air from the non-PC days where anything went! A fun, down and dirty flick like this wouldn't stand a chance in today's climate, which is why I seldom bother with modern action films anymore, unless Quentin Tarantino has a hand in them. Anyway -- I learned later that this is the second movie in the so-called "Ginger Trilogy", starring the sexy and mouth-watering blonde Cheri Caffaro as Ginger, a female James Bond of sorts. An organization of seedy white guys are kidnapping young women, forcing them to strip from top (none of the girls here are well endowed there, if that's your primary interest) to bottom, and then selling them off to rich men who'll do with them what they like. Ginger steps in undercover to crack the ring, and is not beyond teasing her men to extract what she needs from them. Miss Caffaro is alluring enough to keep me interested, and this is just one of those wild and enjoyable sexploitation romps with lots of skin plus funny dialogue and acting that will entertain anyone in the mood for such outlandish smut. I'm going to try and see Cheri's other Ginger films. **1/2 out of ****

This is the second installment in the Ginger series. Ginger (Cheri Caffaro) is a sexy detective who sets out to nail a gang of men who kidnap young, pretty women to sell them as white slaves to rich businessmen, as mistresses and with a view to bondage. Certainly she matches James Bond in terms of enjoying sleeping with the enemy, regardless of whether she converts them to good, as well as anyone else along the way who is attracted to her, which means she will be attracted to him. But this movie goes beyond James Bond in terms of not only graphic scenes, but bondage fantasies, and it seems Ginger enjoys men in bondage even more than her opponents enjoy women in bondage. There are also good action and backdrop, some amusing tension between Ginger and her mentor, and a good feeling or revenge against the bad guys, altho at the very end the movie departs from the main themes. The acting (besides Cheri) leaves something to be desired. Very entertaining, and definitely recommended.

Ever see a tv show where the Evil Guys have kidnapped a beautiful woman and are holding her hostage until the Good Guys can come along and rescue her? Well, I don't know about you, but if I was an Evil Guy and had a beautiful woman tied up, I sure wouldn't leave her fully clothed. And in this film, the Evil Guys think like I do, but they take it to the next logical step - white slavery.

The film starts with a blonde woman, her arms tied behind her back, being led down a hallway wearing only her panties and then thrown in a small room. In the next scene, 3 young women (supposedly cheerleaders) are driving along in a convertible Cadillac when the Evil Guys blow out the Cadillac's tires with a shotgun. When the girls stop, the Evil Guys grab them and tell them to strip down to their panties. While the girls are undressing, one of the Evil Guys throws the discarded clothing into the car, douses the car with gasoline and sets it afire.

The girls are then taken to the Evil Guy's hideout, where the chief Evil Guy tells them that they are going to become sex slaves, and tells them that to show their acquiescence they must remove their panties. To persuade the girls, the chief Evil Guy pulls back a curtain to reveal the blonde woman suspended like a hammock, squirming against her bonds wearing only her panties. The girls quickly decide to surrender (keep in mind that in the 1970's, just showing a nude woman in bondage was pretty racy. Nowadays, where tattoos and body piercing is a form of fashion, the girls would probably say "me next!").

Ginger is a private investigator who is hired to find the missing women. After examining the burned out wreck of the car and doing some mild investigation, she determines that the girls have been kidnapped and used for sex slaves, so she hires a model to act as bait. Naturally, the model gets kidnapped and Ginger uses herself as bait, whereup she is promptly kidnapped, too. Back at the lair, both the model and Ginger are tied up and interrogated by the Evil Guys. Ginger is taken to a separate room while the model is stripped and fondled to get her to reveal information (apparently, arousing a woman is sufficient to get her to spill the beans). In the private room, Ginger is getting a treatment of her own. Fortunately, Ginger and the model had swallowed little disks which enable the Good Guys to track them down and rescue them.

This is a good example of a bondage/adventure/action film. The first film of the series ("Ginger") is not as good as this one. The third film of the series ("Girls Are For Loving"), has more airplanes and speedboats, but the gratuitous nudity doesn't really kick in until that last 30 minutes of the film. "The Abductors" starts with a bang and finishes with a bang, the way a good film should.

This is the second film in the "Ginger" series, and Bridgette Bardot look-alike Cheri Caffaro is back, this time as a private investigator hired to infiltrate a ring of white slave traders.

The film opens with a blonde woman (we'll call her a "stewardess"), wearing only her panties with her arms shackled behind her back, being thrown in a small cell. Next, 3 blonde girls (we'll call them "Cheerleaders") are kidnapped and taken to a strange building where they are stripped down to their panties and have their arms shackled behind their backs (seems to be a recurring pattern). They are then told by the kidnappers that they are going to be used as sex slaves, and when the girls resist they are turned to face a curtain. The chief bad-guy pulls back the curtain and behind the glass we see the stewardess suspended like a hammock in the air, still wearing her panties but squirming quite a bit. It seems that the stewardess had resisted the bad-guys, too. Shocked at the sight, the girls cower and agree to become sex slaves. The reason why the girls were allowed to keep their panties on? As a sign of their submission, they must present their panties to the kidnappers.

Ginger is called onto the case to track down the disappearance of the females, and she launches her investigation by becoming bait for the kidnappers (well, actually she gets another girl to be the bait but they both end up getting kidnapped). At various points in the movie Ginger and her sidekick end up naked, bound, and having sex with the kidnappers. But don't worry, our hero always gets her man.

This installment of the series is much better than the first film ("Ginger") since it had a higher budget to work with. More money = more chicks, more bad guys, more "B" movie bondage/adventures. And since this film was made before the age of silicone implants, they're real (and they're spectacular).

In today's period of conservative politics, feminism, Moral Majority, and sexual restraint (a by-product of the AIDS scare), it's a pretty good bet that no movie series will ever be made quite like the "Ginger" series. Sure, there are X-rated bondage films out there, but none will ever be the "B" movie fare that this film series is.

In this second film of the "Ginger Trilogy" the detective known as "Ginger" (Cheri Caffaro) is called back into action to investigate the disappearance of four beautiful young women. Since the abductions appear to have been planned well in advance and all of the ladies disappeared in the same general area, both Ginger and her boss "Jason Varone" (William Grannel) suspect that this is the work of a local sex slave operation. So, in order to break the case, a beautiful woman has to volunteer to be bait and hope that everything goes according to plan. Now rather than reveal any more of this movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it, I will just say that this film was better in some areas than its predecessor ("Ginger") but lacking in a couple of others. For starters, I thought the acting and camera work were slightly better. However, some of the scenes lacked passion and the script could have used some improvement. In short, I rate this film about the same as I did the previous movie. Average.