June 18: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is Gangsters! We’re excited to tackle a different genre every day, so check back and see what’s next.

Gordon (Gordon Mitchell) and Carl (Antonio Casale) have taken a stack of gold, moved to the middle of nowhere and hide their fortune in a wooden shack. No one bothers them, because they have a stranglehold on the small town’s alcohol sales, marking it up and getting everyone blissfully wasted. However, a crippled man (Richard Harrison, who came up with the idea) has come to town and everyone that has something to hide is about to get exposed.

Everyone in this small silver mining town is horrible. I mean it, there are murderers, child molesters, thieves and more. And in the middle of them all, playing their arousal off one another is the gorgeous and unsatisfied Rita (Dagmar Lassander). She loves every moment of the worked up chaos that she unleashes.

The town could be a Western one for all we know, save the modern truck, the clothing and the bottles and bottles of J&B. There’s so much J&B here that you wonder how many black gloved killers are here for a convention of psychosexual degenerate switchblade aficionados. Also, Ms. Lassander protects herself with a broken bottle of J&B which is as sexy as you think.

Everything is filthy. Everyone feels like they’re just waiting to die. Or kill you. It’s like Bad Day at Black Rock mixed with the Italian West’s ability to keep remaking Yojimbo and then ripping off the rip off, but you accept it and love it because it’s Italy.

Directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero (The Slasher …is the Sex Maniac!), written by Harrison and Leila Buongiorno (The House by the Edge of the Lake), and shot by Mario Mancini (who was on camera for Nightmare Castle and Blood and Black Lace before directing Frankenstein ’80), this is a movie that surprised me and kept me enraptured throughout. Then again, I love people using old Italian West sets for modern or post apocalyptic reasons.

Also known as The Sewer Rats and A Woman for 7 Bastards.

You can watch this on YouTube.