Johnny Legend’s Untamed Video (August 25 – 31) Welcome to the wonderfully wacky world of Johnny Legend’s Untamed Video! Take a walk on the wild side with troublesome teenagers, sleazy sex kittens, way-out hippies, country bumpkins, big bad bikers, Mexican wrestlers, and every other variety of social deviant you can think of.

Directed by Eber Lobato and Howard Veit and shot by Ray Dennis Steckler, this is all about the murder of Marla (Nelida Lobato), whose life is reviewed Rashomon-style by several detectives, then it goes into flashbacks to show you the truth.

Marla got hit by a car, which seems like a bad way to punch out, except that she was playing two men against each other, her rich husband Paul (William Turner) and beach stud David (Nick Novarro). While she claims to be a nymphomaniac, she still got killed for whatever happened next.

As the lawyers argue the truth — one even calls her Miss Sudsy Whudsy or Slutzy Whutzy — we find out the real curveball, especially for 1965. Spoiler here, so you can’t say I didn’t warn you. David is in love with a man,  Christian (this film’s writer, Alan J. Smith) and is so confused over his identity that he’s become a killer. And if you like From Here to Eternity, good news. You’ll get to see that rolling on the beach scene several times.

Nélida made a few films before her too young death in 1982 from breast cancer. She started acting in Argentina and danced at the Champs Elysees and the Lido de Paris, as well as appearing in several films and plays in her native land. She came here to dance in Vegas.

Supposedly, Jim Morrison saw the title of this film on a marquee in Times Square and incorporated it into the song “When the Music’s Over:”

Before I sink
Into the big sleep
I want to hear
I want to hear
The scream of the butterfly