Uschi Digard week (June 23 – 29) Digard is best known for her work with Russ Meyer but she became an SWV fan favorite for two gargantuan reasons, her charm and her prolific career. The Swiss actress fled to America in 1968 and began a long career filling the silver screen from corner to corner with her overflowing positive energy. Show the lady some respect and watch one of her movies.

Long thought to either be a lost film or only having a single print still in existence that was in German with no subtitles, this movie supposedly lives as a 35mm print in the library of Quentin Tarantino.

Directed and written by Albert Zugsmith (Movie Star, American Style or; LSD, I Hate You; The Chinese Room and one of the worst movies ever made, Dondi) — who used the name Kentucky Jones so that the real Manson Family wouldn’t creepy crawl his house — this was also known as Together Girls, House of Bondage and the best possible exploitation title possible, The Manson Massacre.

Invar (Makee K. Blaisdell, who had played many Native Americans on TV) is our Manson. He spends much of the film sleeping in a coffin and having flashbacks, like how he used to have sex with his mom, who is played by Uschi Digard. He also killed his dad with a chair.

This is the kind of movie whose legends are better than the reality, like the one that Lee Frost directed it or that it was made by the Mansons. That said, cinematographer Robert Maxwell also worked on the adult movie The Ramrodder that was shot at Spahn Ranch and had Bobby Beausoleil and Catherine Share in the cast. So maybe sometimes, the lie is based in real life.

The cast includes Debbie Osborne (The Toy Box), April 1972 Playboy Playmate of the Month Vicki Peters (Blood Mania), Lindis Guinness (Grave of the Vampire) and James Whitworth, Jupiter from The Hills Have Eyes.

I wish that I could tell you that this was an amazing piece of adult film but no. It certainly isn’t. It does, however, have a scene where a baby is tossed into a dumpster.