Spiked Heels and Black Nylons (1967)

Another Whit Boyd production from Texas; this one is about a housewife who is blackmailed to become a prostitute.  It doesn't end well.

 This whole film, oddly enough, is narrated by this devil mask on the wall (voiced by Ron Scott).  

At Club Lesbo, we meet the madame of the prostitutes, Reba (Ann Ruthers), the drug dealing pimp Abel (Bill Thurman), and the whore Myrna (Rosemarie McKay).  They're short one whore, and need to find a suitable girl quick.

 Abel suggests Sybil (Shirley Boyd), but Reba says absolutely not.  (I presume Reba is protective of Sybil because she's her girlfriend or perhaps her sister?)

 Myrna needs a fix bad.  Abel gives her some heroine in exchange for sex.

 Reba makes a phone call to recruit a whore...

 Gina (Cherry James) is a happy housewife... but with a checkered past.  She went to Hollywood a while back in the hopes of becoming a star.  Instead, Gina got drugged by a Harvey Weinstein and compromising pictures were taken.  Reba threatens to show her husband the pictures unless she prostitutes herself.

 Her husband Glen is a vice detective.  This won't become a problem, will it?

 Sybil mentions she wants to join the fun, and Reba flies off the handle, taking her to the ground.

 Gina arrives and Reba shows her the pictures on a projector.  If she doesn't whore for her, those pictures go to her husband.

 And so she does.

 Back at home, Gina has a friend, Deanne try on some clothes.  (Very odd and random.)

 Deanne gets overheated and passes out... making an already odd scene even odder.

Glen comes home, sees this girl on the bed, and Gina just tells him to not worry about it. 

Club Lesbo, Ron Scott does a terrible comedy routine.  We have to watch this for about ten minutes - and it is cringe from start to finish.

Sybil at the bar.  Actress Shirley Boyd was only in a couple other films - The Hot Bed (1965) and another Whit Boyd film, Scarlet Négligée (1968).

Deanne shows up at the club (which makes no sense) and does a spastic dance by the jukebox, with Sybil loving every minute.

Gina is forced under threat of blackmail to have sex with Abel.

Glen, through the normal course of his vice cop duties, busts in on the scene. Glen is naturally horrified to find his wife in this situation.

Abel smashes a vase over Glen's head, but Gina shoots him before he can kill her husband.

Tragically, Gina then turns the gun on herself, and blows her own brains out.

Poor Glen.  In the span of a minute, he finds his wife is moonlighting as a whore, then is nearly killed by a pimp, then sees his wife commit suicide.

The film ends with Glen sadly carrying his dead wife out of the room.

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Whit Boyd, president of the Dallas production company, Crescent International Pictures, certainly was on a tear from the mid-sixties through the end of the decade.  During this time he acted, directed and produced a number of sleazy films, all of which I intend to see.... not because they're good.  Not by a long shot.  But like an HG Lewis or Ed Wood Jr. flick, they have that trademark charm of late sixties sexploitation - a bit corny, more than a bit amateur, and very weird.  I mean, this had a talking devil mask for chrissake.

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