Rolls Royce Baby

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.

There is really only one reason to watch this film and it goes by the name of Lina Romay. She is at the top of her form here as she plays a rich, lonely and seemingly troubled woman who satisfies her wanton lust by picking up hitchhikers, both male and female and discarding them after having her way with them. This all stems from an incident in her past when she was abused by a couple of lorry drivers. Eventually, through lucky contacts and contracts, she becomes very well-off which is when we pick up the story.

As in a lot of these films there is nudity aplenty and Lina Romay is well worth the price of admission and the film also contains plenty of spread legs and female genitalia shots which would be banned if submitted to our beloved BBFC for certification. However, it lacks the penetration and climax shots so it is not truly hard core. Lina Romay is definitely the star here and absolutely captivating - so watch and be captivated.

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?

Lina Romay plays the "Rolls-Royce Baby", an irresistible Erotic Diva who rides around in -you guessed it- a Rolls-Royce in search for simulated sex with strangers. She is chauffeured by the great and multi-talented Eric Falk ("Barbed Wire Dolls"), a staple in Edwin C. Dietrich's line of bland-yet-intriguing "erotic" flicks. Here Falk sets aside his usual role as verbal abuser and whipper of female prison inmates to showcase his tender side, his furious nude karate technique, and his ability to drive a Rolls-Royce extremely slowly through the Swiss countryside.

Like in "Gefangene Frauen" AKA "Island Women", Dietrich's sense of light and color adds visual appeal to a fairly dull storyline, which makes this film almost watchable. Another plus is that the film adheres strictly to Dietrich's 10 second rule, which dictates that no more than 10 seconds shall pass without on-screen nudity, preferably in the form of close-ups of female pubes. Yet despite the undeniable effectiveness of these techniques, "Rolls-Royce Baby" starts to fall apart after only twenty minutes, thanks to the complete absence of anything resembling a plot.

It's fair to say that this film doesn't qualify as good by virtually any standards, including prurient ones. Falk almost saves the day with his atrocious performance and spectacular martial arts displays, but doesn't overcome the meandering, repetitive "plot" that eventually calls for the fast-forward button. It's probably best to stay away from this film.

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.