 Well, I got a chance to look at La Orca. This is the 1976 abduction-themed movie that our friend Tarl had posted the stills on his Yahoo group. First off, the movie is in German and since my copy had no subtitles, I had to just guess as to what was being said. Really, I was only watching to see the important stuff, that being what happened to the female victim. The rest of the movie was all fast-forward material, which is just as well since I don't understand German anyway.
It starts off really well. Within the first few minutes, a pretty young blonde (played by Rena Niehaus) is snatched off the street by a couple of men and whisked away in a car in just a matter of seconds. They make it look so easy, it almost makes you want to try it yourself. They're all ready for her, too. One guy knocks her out with a blow to the face, then she's swiftly gagged, and they do that right, too. Everything they need is already neatly packaged in their well-equipped suitcase. First a wad of paper is stuffed into her mouth, then a pre-cut swatch of tape seals her mouth shut. Yep, these guys are good. They follow that up by pulling a wool face mask completely over her face. They give her an injection of some sorts, obviously designed to keep her unconscious.
At this point, they go to a remote location where they leave the car they were driving and quickly make the switch to...what else?...a windowless van. All kidnappers must drive a windowless van; it's required by law. You're not even allowed to get your kidnapper's license unless you own one. They load up their female cargo and off they go to their secret lair.
Once they get inside, they carry their still-unconscious victim to her new home, a dank room with a single bed inside. They chain her ankle to the bed and handcuff her wrists behind her. The wool cap is taken off her head and the tape is pulled off. This causes her to wake up and start gagging as the mouth packing is removed. And what a pleasure it was seeing again that they had stuffed her mouth before gagging her. Like I say, these guys are really good.
Another scene I liked is when their victim has to go the bathroom. Hey, budding kidnappers, it's going to happen. You kidnap a girl, eventually you're gonna have to take her to the bathroom. You might as well deal with it. And this is how you do it.
She is led, with hands still bound behind her (YES!) to the bathroom. They guy pulls down her pants, then her panties (we get to see a flash of pussy) and sits her down on the toilet. That's all the assistance you get; you don't need your hands to pee, honey. When she's done, he wipes her off, pulls up her pants and marches the sobbing girl back to her solitude. I really liked how the pretty prisoner is denied even this most private of moments.
When we see her next, the kidnappers do remove her handcuffs, but only to force her to write a ransom note to her parents. It's worth noting the attention to detail, as you can clearly see the handcuff marks on her wrists as she's forced to write. The cuffs are then roughly snapped behind her back again and she is left chained to the bed once more.
But then the movie, which up to this point had been a clinical textbook on how to abduct and treat a hostage, starts going soft. It begins when she pleads to one of the kidnappers that it hurts having her hands behind her, so he takes pity on her and cuffs them in front. Bad move. Since when does her comfort matter? By the one-hour mark of the movie, she's not wearing any handcuffs at all. So sad.
There's another wrong direction the movie takes before this happens. The kidnapper, who's grown attracted to his pretty captive, comes into her room one night while she's sleeping. He decides to peel back her clothes to take a look at her body. Amazingly, she doesn't wake up, but he chickens out and puts her clothes back on.
The next night, though, he goes back and tries it again. Okay, round 2, you're gonna rape her this time, right? Well, no, not technically. He undoes her clothing, starts feeling up her tits and then licks her pussy. Come on, nobody is gonna sleep through that! Actually, she pretends to be asleep, but she's really enjoying having all these sexual things done to her. So even though this movie is listed as having a rape scene, it's totally consensual. How much nicer would it have been if she had been forced? Oh, I would say a WHOLE LOT better.
That's pretty much all the GIMP activity, since the tone eventually shifts from a mean kidnapper/scared captive relationship to 2 young lovers who can't get enough of each other. For the rest of the film, there is copious female nudity (Rena Niehaus had posed for Playboy 2 years earlier, so obviously she's a hottie). Unfortunately, though, it's all consensual, which definitely takes away its impact.
Overall, a mixed bag. On a GIMP-level, the first half hour is outstanding. But as the story moved along, the tone changed, and with it went the rest of the edge that it began with. Still, if you can find this rare film somewhere, it's worth seeking out. According to the net, it is finally due to be released on DVD soon.
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