Girls Are for Loving (1973)

Strong and Moving!

Fantastic!

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

Ginger has been taking martial arts classes! Well, she's still a beginner, but the leap forward in her fighting abilities is already hugely noticeable. It's like watching a different character between "Ginger" and "Girls Are For Loving" - and I mean that as a compliment for the latter. Other new elements in this film that separate it from its predecessors are a female main villain, who brings an interesting new dynamic between her and Ginger as both of them are not used to being challenged by other women, an interracial romance for Ginger, and a plot with more emphasis on politics and economy rather than a simple "abduct girls and use them as sex slaves" story. "Girls Are For Loving" is not a great film - it suffers from the usual pacing problems of the series; all three films feel twice as long as they are - but it is easily the best of this trilogy, and the only one I am likely to rewatch sometime soon. ** out of 4.

As with the first two "Ginger" movies(Ginger and The Abductors), Girls are for Loving is fun in that cheesy 70s way that you will really only find in films from this decade. This one has the biggest budget of the three, the most competent actors, the best direction - in point of fact, it is easily the best made of the three. Cheri Caffaro as Ginger seems so at ease with her role in this one that her performance(and that word can be defined in oh so many ways) out-shines her previous two stints as the James Bond girl out this time to save some trade treaty fiasco. Plot-wise this one is sketchy at best, but you won't care what with Ginger being naked most of the time and when she is not she has on skin-tight white pants or some other revealing outfit. Aiding and abetting her is Jocelyne Peters as the villainess Ronnie St. Clair(love that name). Peters is beautiful, can act, and I just loved that voice. I am surprised she really didn't go on to do much after this film, but then being tied spread-eagled nude and then forced upon by a male in similar dress might not have spurred that career the way she might have hoped - too much laying on the job one might suppose. The film has a nice pace, lots of inferior yet entertaining action scenes, and some great one-liners(most delivered by Ginger). The low point of the film is Caffaro dressed in a blue fur belting out a song with lines like "Cheese entertains," etc... Caffaro cannot sing very well, but then again the scene is save by the number ultimately being a striptease act. While my favourite of the series is the first for more sentimental reasons and some God-awful sets and acting fashioned into enjoyable entertainment, Girls are for Loving is first-rate sleazy entertainment. Where is Caffaro now? Shouldn't Quentin Taranteno being using her in a film. She would be perfect in one of his vehicles.

Girls are for Loving: 4/10: The Ginger films have always been well…different. An acquired taste if you will. An acquired bad taste in particular. The rap against the first two Ginger films (besides the obvious fact that they are misogynistic in the extreme) is that if you took away the sadism, bondage, rape and acres of young nubile flesh on display you would have a pretty bad movie. This is completely true and as if to prove this fact Girls are for Loving removes the sadism, rape and nubile young flesh completely and is half hearted at best about bondage. So what we have left is one of the most confusing an inept action films I have ever seen.Sure there is nudity from the two stars (Cherri Caffaro and Jocelyne Peters) and while the ladies aren't quite ready to make up half the Golden Girls sitcom even Mr. Magoo wouldn't mistake them for nubile. (One suspects Caffaro demanded that the producers not allow any naked women less attractive than her after being horrible upstaged by the delicious Jennifer Brooks in her last outing The Abductors. This might also explain why the audience is also forced to sit through not one two entire songs sung by Caffaro in a Las Vegas style review.) The plot is about as silly as you can get. The bad guys fight like a combination of the Special Olympics and a zombie movie running at half speed. The explosions are half hearted .The sex scenes are... hold on what's the opposite of erotic. The film is shot in that Hart to Hart style of bad seventies television drama.On the plus side Timothy Brown isn't a bad male lead/action hero and there is a Kelsey Grammar look-alike that brought me much mirth. But this simply doesn't feel like a real Ginger movie. Towards the end of the film the villain captures the ambassador's nubile daughter so the government will give her stock tips (I told you the plot is silly) anyhow in the last two Ginger movies this nineteen-year old beauty would be stripped, whipped and god knows what else. Instead she is released unmolested and fully clothed. Caffaro, for the umpteenth time, however is tied naked to a table. Which would work better if she didn't look like someone's mom.

This is the last of the "Ginger" movie series and had a higher budget than the first two films. Bridgette Bardot look-alike Cheri Caffaro is back as Ginger, a private investigator hired by the CIA to infiltrate a spy ring.The movie opens with a man and a woman making love in a small A-frame lodge. Suddenly the bad guys burst in and grab the man as the woman runs, naked, out into the snow where she is caught by a bad guy and bound to a tree. He, being a bad guy, promptly has sex with her and then, with a broad grin, shoots her. In fact, at various points in the film, all of the evil people show broad grins (must've been part of the Evil Guy recruiting campaign - "Ok, fill out this form and show me your grin.")The mastermind behind the spy ring is a woman, Ronnie St. Claire, and the CIA has hired Ginger to bodyguard the next probable victim of St. Claire's ring. Sure enough, Ginger and her escort are kidnapped and tied up naked and tortured (well, actually more like taunted and fondled) by St. Claire and her henchmen. Not a girl to lay around, Ginger manages to escape from her bonds and with the help of her escort she captures St. Claire and ties her to the same table to which Ginger had been tied. The kidnapped diplomat/spy that Ginger had been sent to recover is then told to molest St. Claire so that she'll regret ever having been Evil.In between the beginning of the film and the end, just about everybody ends up naked and bound in one way or another. One interesting scene is: two Evil henchman have been captured and bound naked with their hands above their heads. Actually, they aren't completely naked - they've been dressed in metal jock straps that have an electrical wire poking out right about where their manhood is supposed to be. Ginger flips a switch and the Evil Guys twitch a bit as Ginger gets them to reveal secret information about St. Claire and the hide-out.And then there's the scene where Ginger, as a test by St. Claire, is strapped naked to a table and told to resist the efforts of her henchman to get her aroused. She fails the test, of course. This scene is repeated at the end, only its St. Claire bound naked on the table and molested by the diplomat. What goes around comes around.Worth seeing if you don't mind 1970's "B" movie quality film. See the commennts for the first two films, too.