Victoria Silverwolf
Vegetarian Werewolf
Cool It, Carol! (1970)
Odd little sex comedy/drama about a couple of young folks who leave their village somewhere in the UK for London. Starts with a weird pre-credit sequence, with a couple of young men working in a butcher shop. One delivers the stuff, and is our main male character. The other is chopping meat, and very calmly announces that he's just cut off a finger.
After this, the guy who still has all his fingers visits his girlfriend Carol, who works at a petrol station. (This is the second British film from this time period I've seen with a pretty young woman as an attendant at a petrol station. This would have been utterly unknown in the USA.) The boy makes up a bunch of baloney about how he's got a good job waiting in London. The girl calls his bluff. Since she won a local beauty contest, she plans to be a model in the big city. In an eyebrow-raising scene, her Dad asks her if her maidenhead is still intact. She admits that it isn't, so he says it's OK for her to go.
In London, they quickly run out of money, since he has no job and she has to pay quite a bit of cash to get professional photographs taken before modeling agencies will even consider her. Eventually they're literally starving. The boy has a ridiculous plan to rob a bank, but that goes nowhere. Carol agrees to try prostitution. Her first attempts are both comic and pathetic, as she simply walks up to men in the street and asks them if they want to sleep with her. Even this fails, but then some guy picks them up and becomes her first customer, while the boy has to wait in another room of his apartment. The client quickly develops into a middleman, taking a cut of the pay as Carol has to service three other men in a row. At this point, she decides she doesn't like this line of work.
That doesn't prevent the two from performing in a pornographic film together. Later, Carol actually becomes a very successful model, while working as a expensive call girl on the side. After the pair finally get a bunch of money, they decide they don't really like the way they're living, despite all the luxuries they enjoy, so they go back to their simple village existence.
The mood of the film varies widely between innocence and sleaziness. The petite Carol, with her little-girl voice, looks very young indeed, and is willing to take off her clothes at the drop of a hat, adding an extra level of depravity. If nothing else, it's an interesting look at the less respectable side of London at the time.
Odd little sex comedy/drama about a couple of young folks who leave their village somewhere in the UK for London. Starts with a weird pre-credit sequence, with a couple of young men working in a butcher shop. One delivers the stuff, and is our main male character. The other is chopping meat, and very calmly announces that he's just cut off a finger.
After this, the guy who still has all his fingers visits his girlfriend Carol, who works at a petrol station. (This is the second British film from this time period I've seen with a pretty young woman as an attendant at a petrol station. This would have been utterly unknown in the USA.) The boy makes up a bunch of baloney about how he's got a good job waiting in London. The girl calls his bluff. Since she won a local beauty contest, she plans to be a model in the big city. In an eyebrow-raising scene, her Dad asks her if her maidenhead is still intact. She admits that it isn't, so he says it's OK for her to go.
In London, they quickly run out of money, since he has no job and she has to pay quite a bit of cash to get professional photographs taken before modeling agencies will even consider her. Eventually they're literally starving. The boy has a ridiculous plan to rob a bank, but that goes nowhere. Carol agrees to try prostitution. Her first attempts are both comic and pathetic, as she simply walks up to men in the street and asks them if they want to sleep with her. Even this fails, but then some guy picks them up and becomes her first customer, while the boy has to wait in another room of his apartment. The client quickly develops into a middleman, taking a cut of the pay as Carol has to service three other men in a row. At this point, she decides she doesn't like this line of work.
That doesn't prevent the two from performing in a pornographic film together. Later, Carol actually becomes a very successful model, while working as a expensive call girl on the side. After the pair finally get a bunch of money, they decide they don't really like the way they're living, despite all the luxuries they enjoy, so they go back to their simple village existence.
The mood of the film varies widely between innocence and sleaziness. The petite Carol, with her little-girl voice, looks very young indeed, and is willing to take off her clothes at the drop of a hat, adding an extra level of depravity. If nothing else, it's an interesting look at the less respectable side of London at the time.