Brand of Shame (1968)

School teacher Rachel Clark is heading West to Boone City to claim her father’s gold mine.

No one in Boone City knows where the mine is, but she’s got a map to the general location and a secret that’s supposed to reveal the specific location of the shaft once she gets there.

She adopts lawyer Steve Turner — Mr. ‘I solve more cases with my gun than in a court” — as her protector. And she’s going to need a protector in wild and woolly Boone City.

The busty saloon owner named Miss Mollie takes one look at the virginal Ms. Clark and decides she wants to bed her.

Gambler Craig Benson hears about the gold mine and decides he’s going to steal if from her. And if that means tying her to a tree and whipping her until she gives up the location, so be it.

Review:

Billed as the first film to show how wild the West really was in the trailer, this is more nudie film than Western. We even get to see school marm Rachel wash off all that dust after the long stagecoach ride West (she’s on the stage for the first 20 minutes of the film.)

Give it one star for the curiosity factor, and for the laughable dialogue. There’s a final shootout, and some pretty poor cinematrography, even when the gals are taking their clothes off.

Directed by:
B. Ron Elliott

Cast:
Donna West … Rachel Clark
as Donna Duzzit
Steve Allen … Craig Benson
as Bart Black
Peter Graf … Steve Turner
as Steve Stunning
Marsha Jordan … Miss Mollie
as Vanessa Van Dyke
Paula Pleasure … Delilah
Lynn Hall … Stella
as Ora Fiss
Dan Martin … George
as Ronnie Runningboard
Edgar Wertz … Red
as Vic Sav
David Freidman … Stage driver

aka:
Nude Django

Score: Billy Allen

Runtime: 71 min. (with trailer)

Memorable lines:

Delilah: “Oh, boy, you’re the devil.”
Craig Benson: “How can you tell?”
Delilah: “Cause I can see one of your horns.”

Stella: “Don’t put me off. Touch me again. Touch me before I die.”
Mollie: “No rush. We’ve got 365 nights a year.”

Craig Benson: “You little, bitch. If you don’t tell us where that map is, I’ll tear your tits off with this whip.”

Trivia:

The film was also known as Nude Django. Forget the fact that there’s no one named Django in the movie. And it’s miles from a Spaghetti Western, though it was made, apparently, in West Germany.

The actress known here as Paula Pleasures was Cara Peters, a Los Angeles stripper and nude model who appeared in a number of films. Another of her acting names was Legs Benedict in the role of Captain Mother in “Space Thing.”