Olga/Triple Feature

This fabulous new release from the good folk at Something Weird Video presents three of the infamous "Olga" films, complete and uncut, with a few choice extras. For maximum effect, you should watch the movies in chronological order, as follows... WHITE SLAVES OF CHINATOWN - Meet Olga Petroff (Audrey Campbell). She is a hard-hearted woman with a penchant for torture and sin. Olga runs a prostitution ring, and also has shares in an opium sydicate. Watch as Olga 'disciplines' her girls in outlandish torture methods! Keep an eye out Gigi Darlene (BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL) who plays one of Olga's lovelies. OLGA'S HOUSE OF SHAME - Olga relocates her business to an abandoned mill in upstate New York. Joining Olga is her corrupt brother Nick (W.B. Parker) and the lovely Elaine (Alice Davis, aka Alice Linville). When the beautiful Nadja (Ella Daphne) tries to destroy Olga's empire, there's hell to pay as Olga fights back with all her fury. OLGA'S DANCE HALL GIRLS - Olga (now played by Lucy Eldredge) sets up 'housekeeping' in the suburbs, and recruits all the able-bodied housewives in the area for her new business, which is just a front for a weird satatnic cult, complete with Olga as the 'High Priestess'!. Featuring appearances by Larry Hunter, Hattie Felder and Moia Gifford. The extra features include the short-subject "Audrey Campbell: Art Lover" which also features her husband, director Byron Mabe (THE HEAD MISTRESS). There's also the "Olga" exerpt from MONDO OSCENITA, trailers for the films featured on the disc and a tantalising exerpt from the 'lost' "Olga" film, MADAME OLGA'S MASSAGE PARLOR (which starred W.B. Parker and Alice Linville reprising their roles of Nick and Elaine!). With Synapse set to release the missing "Olga" film (OLGA'S GIRLS) complete with a commentary by no less than Audrey Campbell herself later this year, fans will have to wait a while longer to complete their collection. I also recommend the following Something Weird double-features: "Sinderella and the Golden Bra/Goldilocks and the Three Bares", "The Notorious Daughter of Fanny Hill/The Head Mistress", "Bad Girls Go to Hell/Another Day Another Man" and "The Violent Years/Girl Gang".

For all you sleazoid B movie freaks out there like myself, something weird video has done it again....... Three classic women dominating women films from times squares golden age. Olga takes no prisoners and is the riding crop wielding godmother to all modern badass women types. These films come from a time when sex was sinful and one had to go to a seedy movie theatre downtown to get off. Ah, the good old days.

Welcome to another episode of Sly Hondo’s Video Nasties Project After Hours. These are reviews of movies that have no chance of being shown on our late-night cable access show on imaginary station WSTV. So, you know these are going to be some real gems! Tonight, we are looking at the incredible triple feature of Olga’s House of Shame, Olga’s Dance Hall Girls, and White Slaves of Chinatown. This fine trilogy of exploitation is collected for us from the good folks at Something Weird Video. As the cover announces, this is an “Unspeakable Nightmare of Eroticism”! Unfortunately, it isn’t. But the good news is that if you have ever wondered what was considered naughty in the 1960’s, we can answer your questions. Trying to make some quick cash on the S&M circuit, director Joseph P. Mawra teamed up with co-writer George Weiss to create the main character of Mistress Olga (as played by Audrey Campbell) and her ring of corruption. Money was no object here as I can only guess there was none. Although presented on the disc out of order, Olga’s initial appearance is in White Slaves of Chinatown, the second film on the disc. Filmed in glorious black and white, after the usual newspaper headlines flashed before our eyes and some footage in New York’s Chinatown, we immediately switch locations to Olga being released from prison and being brought to her old headquarters. I wonder how the Hong Fat Co Famous Noodle Dishes Restaurant took to being continuously being flashed back to. With an over serious sounding narrator making sure that none of the actors actually has to speak, we are informed that underneath this plain-looking building is a dungeon that can break any will. And I also wonder if the young boy who spots the camera and waves at it, even found out he had just appeared in this type of film. With no real dialog between characters, actress Audrey Campbell’s Olga horrible overemotes with bizarre facial expressions that can’t help but make you laugh. The torture devices don’t look remotely sinister, and the victims look bored and uninspired more than terrified and in pain. And while evil characters like Olga and the often-mentioned Syndicate are in charge, the announcer can’t help but mention that it is the Chinese immigrants that are the reason for all the problems over a three-minute loop of bad oriental music is constantly repeated. And while this script was probably believable in 1964, it is filled with slap in the forehead moments. At one point, the voice over tells of how opium will quickly wither a person down to a skeleton, Frenchy and the other slaves are quite stocky. And after a final photoshoot, no one escapes, no one goes to jail, no one gets killed. All our voice-over man can tell us is that we must stay vigilante. Mawra and Weiss wasted no time trying to create a franchise. Filming Olga’s Girls (the second film) which we sadly only get a trailer for in the extras. And then straight into Olga’s House of Shame, which we do get. Olga, still played by Audrey Campbell in both sequels, moves her operation into the woods and focuses more on the torturing of her victims and setting up secondary characters although dialog is mostly nonexistent. As before Joel Holt’s narration carries us through the film. Raising the exploitation limits a bit and changing the location to what appears to be an abandon ore mine, Weiss sticks with his main formula of bored torture victims and ridiculous underacting. But even the ore mine seems to only consist of two main room sets which look as flimsy as an Ed Wood Jr. set. Amazingly, the actress who plays Stacy (Brenda Denaut) is played by the late mother of the Arquette acting family including David and Patricia! Finally, we skip ahead a few years to 1966 for what would today be called a reboot of the franchise. Olga’s Dance Hall Girls gives us a new Olga, played by Lucy Eldredge. A new set up as Olga is now luring suburban housewives as hostesses for her dance hall which is really a front for a satanic cult? Eldredge’s Olga looks fairly bored as do many of the other characters. The only one with anything going for him is Olga’s partner Nick. The narration is gone, and we discover the reason for the narration as the cast couldn’t act their way out of a paper bag. At this point, the torture aspects are being phased out and are being replaced with more nudity. And while the cult aspect had some potential, it too is wasted. The one thing these initial films can offer is a horribly real performance by Audrey Campbell as the totally unlikable Mistress Olga. Campbell came from a stage and radio back round. She made her film debut in Joe Sarno’s Lash of Lust. After appearing in a few more soft-core movies, she joined the cast of the classic horror soap opera Dark Shadows. This led to other soap opera roles. But it’s her complete unlikability as Olga that really adds to the general griminess of these first films. And it is this that Lucy Eldridge can’t match in the later films. Taking into account that the first entry in the franchise was released in 1964, the “eroticism” and S&M moments are hardly believable even by 1964 standards. While subject matter that is definitely is not approved by today’s society, it’s hard not to laugh at these situations. Obviously, the inappropriate images of women tied to trees and chairs while being unrealistically slapped around is frowned upon but with little exception it all looks fake. However, that didn’t stop Marwa and Weiss from generating multiple sequels. I guess my only issue with this set is that it only includes three of the movies when I believe Something Weird Video does have access to all the films. However, I did appreciate all the trailers included in the extras and the coming soon ad for the Olga film that was never made. All in all, we give this set a 3-1/2 out of 5 Stars.

Loves classic and first one is nice movie if not excellent. But second one is not ss great as I hope for.

This one I would avoid, although I am a fan of SWV, and have a lot of respect for most of the fare SWV serves up. Much is priceless and classic, but not this one. I expected someone quite different for the character of Olga! This casting simply didn't work for me. Respectfully submitted.

not very good, could have been more humorous

ok

brand new copy shipped swiftly.thanks

A definite must for all 42nd St affectionados. Thanks to Something Weird Videos, you can now watch all three Olga's sexploitation shockers. This is definitely a good example of the early 60s kinky & SM stuff available in theaters before porn hit the big screen. Dig Olga's work or submit the consequences! Sly from Lost on 42nd St.