I know the times and the people's attitude towards controversy have changed severely between the mid 1960's and present day, but still I can't imagine a tame and inexplicit movie like this held the power to shock or provoke anyone even forty years ago. The brief plot summary sounds salacious enough and the DVD-cover proudly claims the film temporarily got taken out of distribution because it was too offensive, but "Rent-a-Girl" honestly is a very well behaving piece of cheap 60's sexploitation. The underlying messages are a bit raunchy (pretty girls are dumb) and one particular sequences (involving a woman's body and a whip) is perhaps mildly unsettling, but mainly the film just suggests perversion and only displays modest female nudity. It's the touching story of the beautiful but naive Karen Anderson who unwarily enrolls into a network of nude photography and sexual escort work after a disappointing night out with her boyfriend. She needs the money and, since she always dreamed of becoming a model, Karen blindly accepts a job offered by her sleazy peculiar neighbors. The work is quite harmless at first, but Karen quickly gets send to kinky parties thrown by wealthy people with odd fetishes. Even the kinkiest stuff in "Rent-a-Girl" is relatively tame. One client enjoys body painting, another one gets his sexual kicks from attacking his girl with a garden hose and the most wicked one of them all a woman likes whipping girls between the age of 19 and 22. Suffice to say this film is mediocre at best, but actually just dull and poorly made. Half of the footage is pure padding, with amateurish acting performances and horrible music. The music plays non-stop and it is similar to those tunes they play in warehouses. I suspect it's just there to prevent the inept actors from talking more than strictly necessary. The ladies are surprisingly good-looking 60's babes with ravishing bodies (except for one who's at least 50 years old already). Overall a lousy film that isn't worth either your time or money, but it does feature one downright brilliant gimmick! During one of the sex parties, a group of girls of strip-pool. It's exactly the same as strip poker but more accessible and involving. I definitely have to keep this idea mind and suggest it for our next office party.
