10/10
6 horny guys and Carol Baker alone in the desert--what could be better?
1 August 2019
So tensions build at a lonely oil pump station in the middle of the Sahara where the men steal or buy dirty postcards and love letters while the more handsome among them fight over poker when a car wreck brings in Catherine Starr and her injured husband, Jimmy, who she's trying to split up with. Kramer and Martin become rivals for her love in some steamy scenes. Jimmy's revenge is a spectacle to behold. But really, what do 5 men have to work on living by an oil pump? Mostly any broads they can talk into meeting them there, I guess. Bryan Forbes directed one of his best early works and one less re-edited with a more coherent plot. Baker is at her dramatic best also. It's interesting that the ex-husband who crashes the car is named Jimmy and Catherine Starr is played by Baker, who made a lot of films in Europe during the sixties where her car crashes. James Dean, her co-star in Giant, died in a car crash, too. The trauma of losing him haunted many people long after his death.
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