Sep 6, 2016

La Minorenne: The Under age Girl

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After an exhilarating and fulfilling research on Leonora Fani's filmography it's time to move on into other cult exploitation films from the 70's. To celebrate 8 years and 700K visits we decided to make a few changes in our blog. First, we changed our SPAM-Alternative name for something way more in tune with what we do. You see, the original name was nothing but a joke (it was my IRC chat's alternate nickname circa 2000-2003). SPAM stood for nothing until, I thought it had to mean something related to movies, so there you have it, the Stuff, Pubes & Movies Alternative dyslexic acronym was born. However, the term "Spam" is not one internet users dig a lot (for obvious reasons), many people would mark our posts in other social networks (Facebook, twitter, Instagram) as legit spam so we couldn't reach many audiences and got blocked constantly in several places. In addition, some people thought our website was about anti spam software thus, misunderstanding "spam-alternative" as the go to app to fight god awful bloody disgusting spammy messages and clickbait crap found everywhere these days. Despite all the confusion our name could cause, we still enjoyed quite a lot of visits and gain some followers too, so from today on, you're on the same cult film blog with a far more fitting name, enter Sleazy Pictures Muggy Archive, and don't forget to update your bookmarks!

Today's film in review is Silvio Amadio's La Minorenne AKA The Underage Girl a 1974 Italian sexploitation comedy that marks the debut of voluptuous blonde starlet Gloria Guida. At the same time this film was produced, she also starred in another Italian sexploitation comedy internationally known as Monika but originally titled La Ragazzina.

Gorgeous Gloria Guida.
Rosemary Dexter, Pakistani beauty.
Anyways, La Minorenne tells the story of young and virgin Valeria Sanna (Gloria Guida) a private Catholic boarding school student coming of age a tad earlier than expected. For strange reasons Valeria is constantly daydreaming she's losing her virginity in the most awkward ways. The movie opens with her first fantasy: walking home and being chased by a biker gang that eventually ends up raping her (nothing graphic here). Then, she wakes up in her bedroom, being assisted by one of the sisters from her school. However, as soon as she is recovered she has another daydreaming fantasy: being crucified and then rescued by her very lesbian classmates & sexy lingerie nuns. At this point the viewer is like "OK, I get it, this movie will play as short sex clips from different fantasies the girl has". And all of a sudden, Silvio Amadio (the director) changes pace  and the film becomes a typical Italian domestic melodrama film, which in a way, changes the film from going full sexploitation (the first fifteen minutes that is) to a commedia all'italiana adult comedy. 
When a movie is titled "the Underage Girl" what viewers are expecting is clearly a sleaze fest of gratuitous nudity & sex and yet, Silvio Amadio & Piero Regnoli's writing offer us an entertaining & refreshing sex comedy done with good taste. If there's one thing that separates Gloria Guida's career from Leonora Fani's is precisely that: directors, writers & producers with a taste for comedy instead of sleazy daring exploits that are worn out just after you've watched them for the first time. However, there are a lot of Italian sex comedy films, so if you're a newcomer you may want to do some research before you get started on the wrong foot.

Oh no! a biker gang!
Stop rubbing your pussies in the tree!!
While Gloria Guida's stunning voluptuous beauty may make it hard to believe she's an innocent coming of age teenage girl looking for love, the rest of the cast, specially those who play her family & friends will clearly enhance such belief because they're all a big bunch of horny peeping toms and adulterous relatives. For instance, the rather obscure Pakistani actress Rosemary Dexter plays Franca Sanna (Valeria's mother) an unhappy or shall I say unsatisfied married woman who's fucking other men not giving a shit about Massimo Sana (Marco Guglielmi) his cheating husband. And then, there's Lorenzo Sanna (Luciano Roffi), Valeria's horny brother, who's after a piece of ass from Carlotta (Gabriella Giorgelli), the family's maid, so how can we possibly blame it on poor Valeria's wet dreams? I mean, she lives with a family of sexual maniacs! No wonder why her parents sent her to a Catholic school for girls only.

Once school is out, Valeria returns to her family only to find his brother making money out of his friends via a peeping tom show where she's the unaware star! In addition, other men from town are lusting after Valeria's virgin pussy, while at the same time she's teasing some of them in order to find the right man to give away her precious hairy virginity.

I better wash off all the Nuns vaginal juices I came home with.
I wonder, will I try anal this summer?
To make matters even more unrealistic, Valeria's search for the right man, finally brings her to a local sculptor who doesn't even know her name! After they're done fucking, he actually asks Valeria "so, uhm, what's your name?" Reasons as to why she chose him instead of her previous teases (including an old man who's a friend of her parents that has a thing for disguising as a Nazi officer) are unclear, and that is to be expected in an Italian sex comedy film. La Minorenne isn't a masterfully written piece where the main story goes pristine from start to finish, au contraire, it's an 84 minute TV commercial introducing the world to the undeniable beauty Gloria Guida is. 

The story has it, Silvio Amadi was son into Gloria Guida (and who isn't?) he made this film only to portray her beauty and moderate acting skills. Later in 1975 he would work with Guida again in "Quella Eta' Maliziosa" and "Peccati di Gioventú". 

"Your mother didn't try cum until she got married"
So, you want me to suck your friends?
Unlike Leonora Fani, who had acting skills but lacked a good opportunity, Gloria Guida was certainly not as skilled in the acting department. She was kind of a limited one (her acting range could best be described as "scantily clad to completely nude"). To be fair, Guida still had her best roles ahead of her. This movie is certainly not a total waste of time, especially for Guida fans (i.e. heterosexual males everywhere), but aside from the surreal, bizarre fantasy scenes at he beginning it's pretty unremarkable.

As for the amount of gratuitous nudity this film has, I'd say it's a moderate amount of T & A compared to other films Guida has starred.  Being a 1974 film, the plot is very naive compared to what other film makers were making the same year. Other popular sexploitation films that year were, Big Bad Mama, Candy Stripe Nurses, Sex Play, Flesh Gordon and Immoral Tales

Look at those tits man!
You can cum on my tits if you like.
Although starred by Gloria Guida, La Minorenne features other sexploitation starlets, Rosemary Dexter & Gabriella Giorgelli. Dexter is known for her work in The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968), Jess Franco's Marquis de Sade's Justine (1969) & Eye in the Labyrinth (1972) On the other hand Giorgelli is known for her roles in The Organizer (1963), Federico Fellini's City of Women (1980) & a Tale of Love (1983). 

La Minorenne, never premiered outside Europe during the 70's. Obscure VHS tapes bootlegged later during the 80's allowed overseas enthusiasts to get a glimpse of Gloria Guida's debut. Fortunately for her (and for us too) most of her movies were (at least in Italy) released on DVD allowing her overseas fans to watch her most popular films in pristine quality.  Nevertheless, not every film featured English subtitles or English dubbing so, as I said before in other reviews, do yourself a favor and learn some Italian, it'll do you good and it'll help you enjoy a gigantic list of Italian sex comedies from the 70's. Unfortunately, most of these DVD editions have long gone out of print, and news on re releases are nowhere to be found but if you look hard enough you may find a few of her films among the many communities of movie fans that exist online. 
Gabriella Giorgelli.
Easy girl, easy, let that moist flow through your twat.
Overall an entertaining film despite its campiness. Recommended to Gloria Guida fans and Italian adult comedy films enthusiasts.

Here's the movie trailer:


And here's the movie (Italian language only)


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