Being a devoted fan of director Jess Franco, and also of Erwin Dietrich, I was expecting some kind of coherent storyline from this movie. But there is really no linear story to speak of. This is 90 minutes of footage of three attractive women, lying around and touching themselves, and each other. It just goes on and on. Considering this is not hardcore, the film really has no reason to exist. I checked this one out to see Eric Falk, whose work I admire, but he is barely in the movie. This one is awful. If you want to see three women sitting around naked and talking and masturbating for 90 minutes, then go for it. Persoanlly I want a little more from my entertainment. Surprisingly it is not even stylish or artistic. I can't believe Jess Franco made this; it is not at all his style.
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Girls in the Night Traffic
BandSAboutMovies26 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Erwin C. Dietrich is listed as the director and writer of this, but it's also Jess Franco pitching in to direct. There's a story behind that.
According to Kyle Faulkner on Letterboxd, at the end of 1975, Franco got the job of making a more pornographic ripoff of Mandingo, which would seem to be right up his alley. As the cast and crew were at a party, Jess and Line Romay ran from the event that they were throwing, effectively dashing on the bill for two weeks before resurfacing in Italy. This is when Lina and her husband Ramon Ardid finally got divorced and Franco had to face up to years of running from his debts. That's why he made so many films for Dietrich, as he was locked up as his house director to pay back people and probably stay out of trouble.
Pia (Pilar Coll), Margit (Kali Hansa) and Maite (Esther Moser) are three girls who dance in a cabaret - hey, have you ever seen that in a Jess Franco movie? - and live together in a one bed apartment, which is convenient for a menage a trois banana eating session. Then, Mustafa (Eric Falk) and two photographers (Kurt Meinicke and Marlies Haas) kidnap one of them, creating the need for a rescue operation, which means that all three girls try to hump Mustafa until he dies.
Sex in a coffin. Sex with a guy with a fez on his head. Posters for the Bond movies From Russia With Love, Diamonds Are Forever and The Man with the Golden Gun on a wall. A movie about work-based slavery when that's what Franco was kind of going through himself. Another cut called Wilde Lust that's the same movies with dongs. Yes, this kind of has it all, if it all means mid 70s smut.
According to Kyle Faulkner on Letterboxd, at the end of 1975, Franco got the job of making a more pornographic ripoff of Mandingo, which would seem to be right up his alley. As the cast and crew were at a party, Jess and Line Romay ran from the event that they were throwing, effectively dashing on the bill for two weeks before resurfacing in Italy. This is when Lina and her husband Ramon Ardid finally got divorced and Franco had to face up to years of running from his debts. That's why he made so many films for Dietrich, as he was locked up as his house director to pay back people and probably stay out of trouble.
Pia (Pilar Coll), Margit (Kali Hansa) and Maite (Esther Moser) are three girls who dance in a cabaret - hey, have you ever seen that in a Jess Franco movie? - and live together in a one bed apartment, which is convenient for a menage a trois banana eating session. Then, Mustafa (Eric Falk) and two photographers (Kurt Meinicke and Marlies Haas) kidnap one of them, creating the need for a rescue operation, which means that all three girls try to hump Mustafa until he dies.
Sex in a coffin. Sex with a guy with a fez on his head. Posters for the Bond movies From Russia With Love, Diamonds Are Forever and The Man with the Golden Gun on a wall. A movie about work-based slavery when that's what Franco was kind of going through himself. Another cut called Wilde Lust that's the same movies with dongs. Yes, this kind of has it all, if it all means mid 70s smut.
Girls in the Night Traffic
Michael_Elliott11 March 2008
Girls in the Night Traffic (1976) Wilde Lust (1976)
* (out of 4)
Jess Franco film that has three hookers sitting around telling stories of their previous nights work. One of them gets picked up by a so called artist but he turns out to be a pimp who kidnaps the girl. The other two go to her rescue and take revenge on the pimp.
As with several Franco movies, Girls in the Night Traffic is a softcore version while Wilde Lust is the hardcore one. For starters, both films are completely lazy even for Franco standards when it comes to the story. The story that I mentioned above makes no sense in either version and what story there is adds up to around seven minutes while the rest of the running time has sex. Three beautiful women making out is always erotic but when watching a movie it becomes quite tiresome after a while. Girls runs 68 minutes while Lust runs 93 and I'm sure you know what that extra running time is made of. It's rather difficult to say which version is the "director's cut" because the soft version has cuts in the print, which are obviously where the sex goes. The hard version, during some scenes it's clear the inserts are from other movies while some are real with the current actors. Either way, a mess.
* (out of 4)
Jess Franco film that has three hookers sitting around telling stories of their previous nights work. One of them gets picked up by a so called artist but he turns out to be a pimp who kidnaps the girl. The other two go to her rescue and take revenge on the pimp.
As with several Franco movies, Girls in the Night Traffic is a softcore version while Wilde Lust is the hardcore one. For starters, both films are completely lazy even for Franco standards when it comes to the story. The story that I mentioned above makes no sense in either version and what story there is adds up to around seven minutes while the rest of the running time has sex. Three beautiful women making out is always erotic but when watching a movie it becomes quite tiresome after a while. Girls runs 68 minutes while Lust runs 93 and I'm sure you know what that extra running time is made of. It's rather difficult to say which version is the "director's cut" because the soft version has cuts in the print, which are obviously where the sex goes. The hard version, during some scenes it's clear the inserts are from other movies while some are real with the current actors. Either way, a mess.
Sexy perhaps, but not really much of a movie
Horst_In_Translation16 April 2017
Warning: Spoilers
"Mädchen im Nachtverkehr" is a Swiss German-language movie from 1976, which means this one had its 40th anniversary last year. The writer and director here is the fairly prolific Erwin C. Dietrich and this movie is another collaboration he made with the probably even more famous Jesús Franco. But if you know a bit about Dietrich (and Franco), you know what to expect here. Mediocrity if you are lucky, garbage if you are realistic. So yeah, it is mostly the latter. The film includes pretty much nothing other than a bunch of girls performing sexual acts on themselves, each other and occasionally, like the very last scene, also on the male characters. There is little information on the female protagonists' backgrounds and who they are and this as well as the forgettable acting makes all these characters completely interchangeable. This film can also not really be appreciated from the porn perspective. The scenes aren't too aesthetic, the girls (with 1 or 2 exceptions) aren't really that hot and there is just nothing memorable here at all. I can't think of a reason why one would watch this film more than once, especially as once is already once too much. Also the mystery/drama/thriller elements that always come with Franco's work feel very fake and unauthentic. Violence like in other works by Franco is not existent in here, which is probably also why IMDb lists it as an adult movie, which makes it more difficult to find, but this is probably a good thing looking at the quality. "Girls in the Night Traffic" is a failure for 90% of the film I guess. I don't recommend it and I am glad it was this short, 82 minutes actually and I see this is already the longest version there is. Do yourself a favor and watch something else instead.
Definitely one of Franco's most enjoyable efforts...
apmolekyl24 August 2005
Phew!... just finished watching ABC-DVD:s release of this Franco curiosity. It's been a very long time since I've slapped my knees this much watching a movie. The DVD contains both the soft version (still some erections and millisecond hardcore footage left in). "Mädchen I'm Nachtverkehr" was clearly shot with full-on hardcore scenes. The editing of the soft version is all jump-cuttie where the hardcore kicks in.
The movie (soft version) is typical Dietrich-era stuff. Great photography, smoking' hot women... and, of course, the one and only Eric Falk. Story comes down to this: Three women living together, supporting themselves through prostitution, want to change their situation. They save the money they make from their clients, so they can move on to a decent living, once they've made enough money. We're shown in flashbacks how these women met and episodes from their dust-ins with various clients.
This is where the knee-slapping comes in full force, with weird peccadilloes like having sex in a coffin with a weirdo that outholmes John Holmes himself (trust me, my jaw dropped), and bored sex with a Turkish guy, who keeps his Fez on, during the act. I squirted coffee out of my nose in this sequence. He babbles non-stop about Allah, Muhammed and Tutti Frutti(?!!!). Franco must've had an absolute ball making this. You've gotta hand it to the old fart. He always, no matter how crappy the movie is, digs out a nugget of pure genius... or two - The coffin sequence is pure brilliance as well.
"Mädchen I'm Nachtverkehr" is mainly for the initiated, but I would definitely recommend Francophiles-in-the-making to give this one a spin as it will only increase your appreciation for him, and his monumental work. Skip it if you're offended by scenes of explicit hardcore. It's evident on the look of the actors faces that it's all in good fun, though. Unlike some contemporary pornography. All in all classic Franco.
Apemolecule
The movie (soft version) is typical Dietrich-era stuff. Great photography, smoking' hot women... and, of course, the one and only Eric Falk. Story comes down to this: Three women living together, supporting themselves through prostitution, want to change their situation. They save the money they make from their clients, so they can move on to a decent living, once they've made enough money. We're shown in flashbacks how these women met and episodes from their dust-ins with various clients.
This is where the knee-slapping comes in full force, with weird peccadilloes like having sex in a coffin with a weirdo that outholmes John Holmes himself (trust me, my jaw dropped), and bored sex with a Turkish guy, who keeps his Fez on, during the act. I squirted coffee out of my nose in this sequence. He babbles non-stop about Allah, Muhammed and Tutti Frutti(?!!!). Franco must've had an absolute ball making this. You've gotta hand it to the old fart. He always, no matter how crappy the movie is, digs out a nugget of pure genius... or two - The coffin sequence is pure brilliance as well.
"Mädchen I'm Nachtverkehr" is mainly for the initiated, but I would definitely recommend Francophiles-in-the-making to give this one a spin as it will only increase your appreciation for him, and his monumental work. Skip it if you're offended by scenes of explicit hardcore. It's evident on the look of the actors faces that it's all in good fun, though. Unlike some contemporary pornography. All in all classic Franco.
Apemolecule
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