Based on the book by Arlette Thomas-Fletcher, who also directed the movie, The Lonesome Trail is all about Mike McCray, a cattle baron trying to keep new homesteaders out of his mining town and Carlson, the preacher who rescues them with his Bible instead of a gun. But when the ruthless McCray attacks again, even Carlson’s family members may not stay on his side.

If you’re in the mood for a faith-based western — instead of the lawless Italian ones that are often on this site — The Lonesome Trail is for you.

Thomas-Fletcher is the first African American, woman to write, produce, direct and executive produce a western movie. She fell in love with horses and westerns when she grew up around farming, horses and watching western movies and television shows with her father.

You can get The Lonesome Trail on digital from Gravitas Ventures. You can learn more on the official site.

The Schoolteacher is the first of the five-film Insegnante series, three of which have Edwige Fenech in the lead (the others have Nadia Cassini and Anna Maria Rizzoli). The story is always pretty simple and as they say, ne derivano cose stupide.

Fefe Mottola (Vittorio Caprioli) wants his son Franco (Alfedo Pea) to graduate, so he hires a private tutor, Giovanna Pagaus* (Fenech). As you may have learned from watching her in oh so many commedia sexy all’italiana movies, the very existence of Edwige Fenech is enough to send men into fits of foaming at the mouth. Franco realizes that he can’t be around her without incident, so he tries to convince her that he’s gay. And yes, that’s worrisome but this is a 1975 Italian sex comedy and this kind of thing tends to happen.

Director Nando Cicero made twenty movies of this quality while writers Tito Carpi (Thor the Conqueror, Tentacles) and Francesco Milizia (The Teasers, Erotic Exploits of a Sexy Seducer, so many other movies where gorgeous women destroy men’s wills and teenage boys have fart-related issues) made plenty more films. That said, this is a fine film for this genre, which is quite simple and obviously rather silly, but there are worse things than watching Edwige Fenech for 95 minutes.

*Giovanna comes from Fenech’s other big sex comedy success, Giovanna Long-Thigh.

You can download this from the Internet Archive.

The title may translate as Let’s undress like this, without shame, but this movie is Sex With a Smile II and it’s directed by Sergio Martino and directed by Sandro Continenza (The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue) and Italian comedian Raimondo Vianello.

Unlike the first film, there’s no Marty Feldman or Edwige Fenech, but there are Ursula Andress and Barbara Bouchet. So that’s a pretty nice trade, I guess.

In “The Detective,” a private detective and his assistant (Aldo Maccione and Alvaro Vitali) try to make money off of a jealous husband (Benito Artesi) who is sure that his wife (Ria De Simone) is cheating on him.

“The Football Team” has Dante Zatteroni (Enrico Montesano), a soccer player kicked out for his rough style, plays for a female team with some success.

“The Trojan Wardrobe” is about film producer Giangi Busacca (Alberto Lionello) and his marriage to the rich Violante (Barbara Bouchet) and in an affair with Françoise (Nadia Cassini). He has a plan to keep getting money from his wife and sex from his mistress, but it doesn’t work out.

Finally, in “One Step to Paradise,” Marco (Johnny Dorelli) and Marina (Ursula Andress) are trying to sleep together while her husband won’t just leave and let them consummate their affair.

While I prefer Martino’s giallo and horror films, this is a goofy and fun Italian sex comedy. Andress is really good in it and there are plenty of ridiculous comedic situations.

Better known as Emanuelle in the Country — because Laura Gemser is in it — this movie has Emanuelle (Gemser) arriving to be a doctor in a small Italian village. Italian men are complete libido-driven pigs — I can say that, I know — and they start acting like Tex Avery characters when they’re near her.

I realize that this is not connected to the other Gemser Black Emanuelle films because nobody watches snuff footage or eats a nurse. Mario Bianchi may have made Nightmare In Venice and The Murder Secret, but he’s no Joe D’Amato. I mean, that’s not fair to even make that comparison because my love for D’Amato is nearly infinite. But still. You have Laura Gemser and you put her in a sad small town and this is the best you can do?

Because if either Laura Gemser or Joe asked me to loan them a lot of money, I would do it. Especially Joe, because he’d be a ghost and I wish I could hang out with his sleazy specter.

Developer Ray (Omar Tucci) and his mistress Brooke (Marlene Malcolm) run afoul of a cop named Gary (Greg Johnston) and his friends TJ (Terry McDonald) and Rick (Rick Amsbury), who go from bothering the couple to putting them through a most dangerous game before we discover than somehow Brooke is better with guns than anyone in this film.

There’s one surprising moment where Brooke is sure the men will assault her. And they reply, “No, we’re married.” I mean, they’ll still kill her. But they have morals.

Marlene Malcolm goes all out in this and if this were the 90s, I’d be looking for her to be in a whole series of direct to video action movies. Here’s hoping she gets to accomplish whatever is the same thing in 2022. She’s talented.

Death Hunt is available on VOD and DVD from Uncork’d Entertainment.

When the daughter of the American ambassador is abducted and held for ransom on a secret island off the Indonesian coast, Colonel John (Jeremy Thomas) and Major Cathy (Karenina Maria) decide to take ten models, train them to be commandos and then save face for the U.S.

Sure, alright, whatever.

The terrorists are named Paul (Hans de Kraker, which is a better name than the character he is playing) and Jane (Svitlana Zavialova, allow me to say the same thing) and honestly, do we even need a story? We somehow have supermodels who were experts in being snipers before they even got into this black ops deal.

The end of this decides that this should be violent — kinda out of nowhere — and I’m all for that.

It’s no Andy Sidaris movie, but come on. Nothing will be that perfect again.

You can watch this on Tubi.

Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman shouts gangster Che Longan, which is overheard by video game player Santiago, who must promise to literally do so — bring the severed head of the near-unkillable female assassin La Mujer Metralleta to Che in 24 hours as proof that she’s dead or be killed himself.

Directed by Ernesto Díaz Espinoza, who co-wrote the story with star Fernanda Urrejola, this movie takes its cues from films like — obviously — Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia — and video games like Grand Theft Auto down to the typeface.

I wasn’t really a fan of Santiago and would just rather watch the outstanding Urrejola kill everything in her path. But hey — it’s got more than enough action to make me happy.

You can watch this on Tubi.