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Directed by William Rotsler
Written by William Rotsler
Starring:
- Adele Rein as Kitty
- Cathy Crowfoot as Tigercat
- Pat Barrington as Dancer
- Charlotte Stewart as Model
- William Rotsler as Brian
Rating: 
The hopelessly impressionable Kitty (Adele Rein) and her territorial, man-hating girlfriend Tigercat (Cathy Crowfoot) plunge into a gloriously toxic tangle of lesbian obsession, bisexual uncertainty, and mutual emotional sabotage in this ragged roughie from L.A. pornographer William Rotsler. Casting himself as the unfortunate male caught in the crossfire, Rotsler turns a simple love triangle into a demolition derby of wounded pride and romantic self-destruction. Rotsler serves up a story loaded with the kind of tabloid sleaze that could have fueled a dozen grindhouse attractions, but his artistic instincts frequently dilute the exploitation punch. The film spends an inordinate amount of time revisiting Kitty’s past affairs with abusive men, tracing the emotional scars that eventually led her into Tigercat’s waiting arms. The problem is that these detours often feel longer than necessary, especially when the present-day story involves a jealous girlfriend who solves relationship problems with murder. A movie featuring endless topless sapphic house parties, a frantic Cathy Crowfoot tearing across the boulevards of 1960s Los Angeles in pursuit of her missing girlfriend, and William Rotsler flirting with near-avant-garde filmmaking should be exploitation nirvana. On paper, this thing reads like the kind of lurid fever dream that would have grindhouse patrons glued to their seats. Yet somehow it never generates the pulse-quickening excitement its ingredients promise. Maybe the film gets lost in its own padding, lingering too long on the detours while the juicy stuff slips through its fingers. Whatever the case, I’ve seen Rotsler pull off this sort of material with far greater confidence. Still, a Rotsler roughie is a Rotsler roughie, and that’s enough to make it mandatory viewing for sexploitation devotees.
