Venus in Furs (1967)

Director:

Joseph Marzano

Writers:

Barbara Ellen, Joseph Marzano,

Stars:

Barbara Ellen, Shep Wild, Yolanda Signorelli

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Barbara Ellen	...	Marina (as Elinore)
Shep Wild	...	David
Yolanda Signorelli	...	Lorilie (as Stephanie Smythe)
Janet Banzet	...	Woman on subway (as Pat Barnett)
Bhob Stewart	...	Screaming fetishist (as Bob Stewart)
Bella Donna	...	Woman with muscle man (as Lisa Love)
Ava Martin
Bob James	...	(as Robert James)
Joseph Marzano	...	Guy on bed
Gresham Law
Mary James
Sheila Fern
Rene Spencer
Al Campa
Michael Norel

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

sex | footsie under the table | dominatrix | female nudity | based on novel

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Taglines:

Venus... goddess of pleasure in a citadel of sin.

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Genres:

Drama

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 July 1967 (USA)

Box Office

Budget:

$8,500 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Cam-Scope Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

65 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Featured in Harry Novak's Boxoffice Bonanza of Sexploitation Trailers, Volume I (1992)

User Reviews

just trash, and rather disappointing

Loosely based on the novel (actually the only thing the same is the words spoken at the beginning) this short film is boring, poorly acted, and, given the possibilities of the source material, resolutely unsexy.

Black and white and with minimal dialogue, there are a couple of scenes which work - the shoe shop, the eponymous lady in fur wraps, the orgy sequence - but they are unbalanced by the voyeuristic bathing sequence where a large breasted and large bottomed blonde is soaped by a dominatrix with a beehive, and interminable shots of the hero of the film wandering aimlessly about a large house where titillating scenes are presented which really go nowhere.

I couldn't really find any merit in this. As exploitation it is too dull, the one hour feels like ten, and the dreamlike atmosphere just doesn't work.