10 Alternative Films For Valentine's Day

When Women For Sale became a hit for their company Independent-International, Sam Sherman and Al Adamson came up with the title Girls For Rent, chose porn star Georgina Spelvin to play the lead villainess and made sure the film was loaded with enough action, sleaze and tit shots to entertain the drive-in crowd.

When she’s sprung from jail by a gangster whose entourage consists of bikinied bad girls, Spelvin accepts a position in his organization and is handed the murder of a politician as her first assignment. Hiring a call girl to poison his pre-coitus Brandy, however, turns out to be a bad idea when the girl, realizing she’s been set up, freaks out and bails. Accompanied by the gangster’s right-hand woman, Spelvin is then in hot pursuit before her quarry can reach Mexico.

With its simple (some might say threadbare) narrative in which feisty, quick-to-disrobe females figure prominently, Adamson touches upon Russ Meyer territory, only without Faster Pussycat Kill Kill Kill’s memorable dialogue and characters (no Tura Satana, either).