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Harry Alan Towers, that prolific producer of cheap but handsome exploitation (and the man behind many Jess Franco films back in the day) backed this 1983 effort which attracted some interest (from somewhere, apparently) for featuring French game show hostess Sophie Favier showing off her prizes, as it were. She isn’t the lead, though. That happens to be one Jennifer Inch (?!), who plays a young woman dressing as a young boy. She is adopted by a nobleman, who wonders why he’s so excited around his young charge.
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Well! The case informs us that “Former Miss Bahamas, Josephine Jacqueline Jones spraked an international firestorm with her debut starring role as Venus.” I guess I must have slept through that firestorm. At any rate, this tale, “based on the scandalous story by Honor’ de Balzac” (but then, Tower of the Screaming Virgins is “based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas”), is narrated in flashback by an elderly gentlemen who frequents a brothel, and sees the title character there. The film tells of her journeys through decadent 19th-Century society.
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