The Abductors (1972)

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Meet Ginger. She is the ultra-feminist secret agent created to counterbalance that male chauvinist pig James Bond 007. In this film, she solves a case that has no global significance whatsoever.

Ginger (Cheri Caffaro), wears hideous knit costumes, can seduce men in a single bound, and applies makeup with a trowel. A gang of henchmen, led by Jablon (Patrick Wright), kidnap three young beauties. They psychologically torture the girls until they submit, then sell them to rich men as mistresses in bondage. Jason Varone (William Grannell), a poor man's M, calls in Ginger to investigate the case. Ginger's secret agent gadget? Small radar disks that can be swallowed, then tracked by someone with a radar set up in their car. Ginger sets about trying to save this skeevy part of the world.

In re-editing this review, I dropped THREE paragraphs of awful plot- you're welcome. This was the middle film in a trilogy of crud featuring the character Ginger. The naked women were nice to look at, in the halcyon days before breast implants. Be warned, hairy middle-aged male villains are on as much display as the women. Schain's direction consists of nailing the camera to the floor and slowly zooming in and out of each scene. For a secret agent, Ginger is kind of an idiot. Her idea of feminism is taking off her clothes and acting horny so some henchmen will untie her. Most of the cast has not worked since this series, and it is easy to see why. Sure, it's exploitation, but it is also monumentally bad, and the fun is soon forgotten.

I sentence "The Abductors" to solitary, never to be seen again. A sequel to "Ginger," this was followed by "Girls Are for Loving."

Stats:
(1972) 90 min. (*) out of five stars
-Written and Directed by Don Schain
-Cast: Cheri Caffaro, Patrick Wright, William Grannell, Richard Smedley, Laurie Rose, Anthony Barone, Gerie Bronson, Nick Cockinos, Jeramie Rain, Stan Franklin, Rudy Hornish, Eli Levine, Harry Reems
(R)