Giovannona Long-Thigh (1973)

Description

Threatened with the stink of a pollution scandal, the Straccolone Cheese Company hires a gaudy streetwalker (giallo scream queen Edwige Fenech) to sway the vote of an influential cabinet minister (Vittorio Capriolo, from Fellini's Variety Lights), whose roving eye all but guarantees a favorable ruling in Parliament. With bumbling underling Pippo Franco (Ubalda, All Naked And Warm) assigned to oversee the seduction, how can the plan possibly go wrong? This sexy 1973 comedy was another successful venture for producer Luciano Martino and director Sergio Martino (The Strange Case Of Mrs. Wardh, Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key) and stars the incomparable Edwige Fenech, who remains equally beautiful in and out of costume. Longing looks, crossed connections and mixed messages drive this energetic farce, which boasts a stellar cast of rubber-faced Italian character actors, including Gigi Ballista (Salon Kitty), Adriana Facchetti (A Man Called Magnum, Francesca Romana Coluzzi (HBO's Rome) and Riccardo Garrone (Girl With A Suitcase) as Fenech's garish pimp. Trivia: Cinematographer Stelvio Massi shot this film the year he made the transition to director of such high octane action films as Emergency Squad, The Last Round and Convoy Busters. Unreleased in the United States, Giovannona: Long-Thigh makes its American debut on this DVD from NoShame films, remastered from the original vault negatives and bursting at the seams with enticing extras.