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Slave Girls

£675.00

Film

Slave Girls

Additional information

Year

1967

Size/Type

UK Quad (30" x 40") Single Sided, Promotional Photograph – 15.75″ x 21″

Country of Origin

UK / British

Condition

Photograph – Very Fine (originaly flat / unfolded – now mounted to board), Poster – Very Fine plus (originally folded – as issued)

Director

Michael Carreras

Actor/Actress

Carol White, Edina Ronay, Martine Beswick, Michael Latimer, Stephanie Randall

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“Behold a savage world where men are slaves to desire…and women are their demanding masters !”

One of the most memorable of all Hammer posters and that’s not just because of the scantily clad prehistoric cave girl Tom Chantrell artwork, but Hammer in their marketing wisdom produced the poster with a bright day-glo pink finish for the 1967 UK quad of Michael Carreras’ “Slave Girls”. For comparison included with this poster is Tom Chantrell’s own full colour promotional photograph (which shows he has hand-tinted in certain areas – hair, bikini & vegetation showing the original title “Prehistoric Women” & accompanied by a Letter of Authenticity from the Chantrell Estate) which was used by Hammer and Chantrell to show investors and distributors prior to the film actually going in to full production. This was a cost effective and unique ploy which Hammer used very well for several of their films. Extremely scarce this country of origin example British quad film poster is from first year of release 1967. Totally original and unrestored this sought after example needs to be seen in the flesh to be fully appreciated. Sorry I just can’t get the ‘pink’ to pop in the photos as it does in real life. Originally folded (as issued) this exceptional poster has stood the test of time well and displays to excellent effect. One of the best examples of British Hammer movie poster artwork available; a real personal favourite. Incredibly collectible it represents a fine piece of  British movie memorabilia.

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Trivia: Shot in only four weeks using sets and costumes from One Million Years B.C. (1966), in order to offset the earlier film’s cost of £140,000 pounds.

NOTE: Price stated includes the original 1967 UK quad poster for “Slave Girls” & Tom Chantrell’s promotional full colour photograph for “Prehistoric Women”. You will receive 2 x items.

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Film Description

Slave Girls Movie Poster

“Jungle guide David Marchand is kidnapped by a tribe of natives who want to sacrifice him to their white rhino god. Just as he’s about to be killed, however, he is thrown backwards in time to a kingdom of brunette women and their blonde slaves. David rejects the advances of Queen Kari and sides with the blondes, which leads to him being imprisoned in the dungeon. Can David find some way of returning to his own time ? And if he does, what will be awaiting him when he returns ?”

In 1966, Hammer studios gave the world its cave-girl classic One Million Years B.C., which featured a bevy of fur bikini-clad beauties, including the pneumatic Raquel Welch and the lissom Martine Beswick. The next year, obviously unwilling to consign a wardrobe full of skimpy animal-skin costumes to the skip, they also made Slave Girls (AKA Prehistoric Women), a ridiculous jungle adventure which saw Beswick once again playing a wildcat with a nasty streak.

Written and directed by Michael Carreras, Slave Girls is technically one of Hammer’s weakest efforts: a poorly scripted studio-bound clunker with an unbelievably daft plot and some mind-numbingly bad performances. However, it is also one of those rare films that manages to be consistently entertaining simply thanks to its unrelenting awfulness.

Michael Latimer plays David Marchand, a jungle guide who is taken captive by savage, white rhinoceros worshipping natives who intend to sacrifice him to their god. Just as he is about to be killed, David touches their sacred rhino statue, which freezes time and opens a doorway into a kingdom where a tribe of big-breasted, brunette beauties, led by the heartless Queen Kari (Beswick), have enslaved a tribe of equally-buxom blonde babes.

After falling for a slave girl named Saria (Edina Ronay), and witnessing Kari’s cruelty, David vows to help the blonde women overthrow their oppressors, a task made all the more difficult when he is clapped in irons for spurning Kari’s sexual advances.

Featuring loads of native song and dance numbers to pad out the action (including a nifty solo routine from Beswick, who might not be the prettiest of Hammer’s women, but certainly has one hell of a hot bod!), the occasional cat-fight, a gloriously naff jungle battle, and a silly surprise ending that makes no sense whatsoever, this film is sheer nonsense from start to finish. But it’s fun nonsense,

 

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