WOmWAm FEMMEnomena - The Ambushers

This is one the sexiest movies of the Sexties... From the opening credits it's all about WOmWAm - how Incredibly Gorgeous WOmen overwhelm & attack dumb men, breathtakingly presenting an array of international beauties, with either sleek model good looks or voluptuous playboy physiques, decked out in hip 60s fashion, enticing / ambushing unsuspecting / unprepared males...

Guy's just walking along, minding his own business and the Girls start pickin' on him...

Later on we discover these WOmen are organized in some quasi-military fashion, at a center where they are trained to seduce, assault and kill men...

Sex & Death sensationally coalesces in the SlayGirls...

All that is desirable to a man in Life embodied in a FEmale Form that can destroy him...

Senta Berger's "Francesca Madeiros" takes the "Sex as a Weapon" theme to a new height...

And then revs his engine...

"I did something for you, now you do something for me..."

Helm is all ready to jump into bed with Her, but She's controlling the pace of the interaction... "Maybe Later," she teases... She wants him always thinking about sex and uses his preoccupation to lead him into her Feminine Trap...

And She's so confident he will fall for it, that She even offers him an antidote to the drug She's about to dose him up with, knowing She can count on his male ego to mislead him to think he knows how drugged drinks work and turn it down...

After giving him a chance to honestly tell Her what he knows, She goes in for the kill...

He's thinking he's getting what he wants, that he's going to overwhelm her with his sexual prowess...

She not only lays on Helm one of the best screen kisses of all-time, but further pumps him up by sending a goon after him...

When Helm dispatches the goon, he's sure he's in command now... She further toys with him, asking how he knew the goon was there... Helm smugly replies: "I could feel his hot little breath every time you moved..."

And Helm discovers he's one of the people She has a most profound effect on...

Her drug hits him...

He can't understand how she did it, he thought he was in charge... She teasingly explains it all to him...

She further infuriates him, explaining the drink she offered has the antidote...

("You dumb schmuck...")

Helm's finally in bed, but on Francesca's terms, not his... And is he mad at Her for setting him up with such Commanding Feminine Calculation? For tricking him, humiliating him? No - he's in love with Her!

And works him for all he's worth... Playing up his desire for her, cajoling him into a sleepy aroused stupor where he will divulge all she wants know...

The only thing that can free Helm from Francesca's Overwhelming Feminine Clutches, is the appearance of another WOman, Sheila...

Even as his savior, Sheila realizes how pitiful a man can be when going up against a WOman who knows how to use Her Sexuality as a Tool of Dominance...

And to nurse Helm back to consciousness, Francesca then becomes his Nurturing Mother, feeding him with a drink to restore his manhood...

Perhaps due to the film's flimsy plot and need for filler, but rarely has a SpyFemme had such lengthy screen time to seduce-dupe-trap a hero... Here SpyWorld Reality elevates to Mythic Sexual Fantasy, where a WOman's lips becomes a weapon, Love is The Drug, and the WOman totally rules the situation, manipulating a man who thinks he knows what's going on, but who is actually being Overwhelmed beyond his comprehension...

Even though Sheila resents Francesca, she does later agree to share in some of Her Girl Power...

Francesca's final Tease Dominance is enticing a guard with her breasts before shooting him to death...

Over time this movie has been critically viewed as silly-harmless trash, but upon release it was thought to be racy & provocative, with a label of "Not Suitable For Children" appearing on promotions as the producers knew they were beginning to mine the realm of soft-core porn... And as the Sexual Revolution of the 60s reached it's full crest in '67, The Ambushers in many ways represents the link from restrained studio-produced Tease / Titillation to the full-blown porno that would soon flood the movie market... And for some Children of the 60s, whose parents did not heed the warning and took their kids anyway to the movie with a "How harmful can a Dean Martin flick be?" attitude ("After all, we watch him every week on tv"), this was the first exposure to 'sexual fetishes as entertainment' for many young boys...

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