A Bring Out the GIMP (Girls in Merciless Peril) Movie Review


The Harem Bunch aka Undercover Vixens

Reviewed by Thomas Chaser


I'm not really sure what the difference is between the two titles, other than release dates. The Harem Bunch appears to be the first release, then marketed as Undercover Vixens later. At any rate, the box art on the cover for my DVD read The Harem Bunch... Or War and Piece while the back read Undercover Vixens, so maybe there is no difference between the two.

Anyway, the plot is pretty simple. A man walks into a tailor shop in Tel Aviv (circa 1982, we're told), run by a Jew and Arab. The man thinks it is wonderful that a Jew and an Arab have put aside their differences to work so well together. The two men then go on to explain that the Jew was a general in "the war" and the Arab was the son of a sheik and is the only person to ever foil one of the Jewish general's operations. He begins to tell the story of how he set up a covert operation to smuggle high-tech tanks into Israel using female operatives to plant bogus information in the Arab leadership.

The plan was simple: find three women and give them not-so-secret plans for the Arabs to discover. The women would believe that they have secret plans so that when they were captured, the Arabs would believe their sincerity. One woman would be disguised as a shepherd boy, another as a jeep driver, and the third as a harem girl. To recruit their operatives, the general would solicit volunteers from the female IDF barracks. He sends a sergeant down to find three willing volunteers, and apparently all IDF women lounge around naked in the barracks – something our own military might consider implementing.

Meanwhile, the sheik’s lieutenants are talking about how they will kill the Jews using fire, whips, and swords. One LT, so passionate about killing, grabs a puffy-nippled harem girl, who doesn't seem to mind a little knife-play before her sexing.

The IDF agent sent as the shepherd boy has her hands full warding off the shepherd who compliments her/him on “his” physique and tries to remove her/his shirt to see her/his muscles. She manages to deflect the man’s attempts, but later that night the shepherd’s wife, also intrigued by her/his muscles, finally disrobes the agent. Her cover revealed, literally, she’s sent to the sheik where she is bound Arms-Over-Head for the LTs to decide her fate. Naturally, they argue about how best to make the agent talk, resolving nothing.

The jeep-driver attempts to race across the desert, but she’s spotted and captured in an ambush. She joins her compatriot in the sheik’s tent as a plaything for the LTs.

The harem girl agent seems to be having better luck. The senior harem girl manages to get the IDF agent alone for a little one-on-one initiation involving anointment with oil and some lesbian love-making.

Unfortunately, the next day when the IDF girl attempts to make contact with her superior, she trips over an Arab and shouts out “Oy vey!” She’s captured and also bound AOH in the sheik’s tent.

My sole motivation for buying this DVD lasts about 17 seconds, as the hottest of the three IDF girls is tortured with a large dagger. There’s no cutting and no blood but Monica Gale emotes very nicely in what little screen time she’s given here. It would've been nice if this scene had lasted longer, but this is supposed to be a comedy, not a horror film, so the peril factor is a bit low here. Still, it’s a good scene and Monica Gale plays it well, so I'll share it:

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The sheik’s son, who is a UCLA graduate, bursts into the tent to rescue the fair maidens, subdues the three LTs, and takes the girls back to his place for a little wine, tobacco, bad dancing, and soft-core lovemaking. The war ends and the Jew and Arab get out of the military business and into the fashion business together.

As a movie, this one isn't the best. The nude scenes are typical of the low-budget movies shot during this time, with poor lighting, poor angles, and pretty much poor everything. The only redeeming factor is Monica Gale, who can actually act. I'm surprised she didn't do more films before disappearing from the movie business.

There’s no blood, no whipping, no burning, no cutting, and no penetration. But – it does have Monica Gale, who lights up every scene she’s in. I wish her two key scenes had been longer, but we get what we get. It is light fare for fans of cheesy sex comedies.


My Grade: D

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