Review: Mädchen des Lasters / Ce corps tant désiré / This desired Body 1959... Belinda Lee does Brigitte Bardot
I admit to currently have a mini crush on Belinda Lee. Someone I had never thought about before. For the KRIMI ENCYCLOPEDIA I had to watch some of her German films she made after the RANK Organisation dropped her, so when this little known French curiousity came my way, I could not say no. It is - I admit - more drama than crime. But crime is in it, for sure. So in real life, Belinda is in trouble in 1959, as she had an affair with a married Italian nobleman, someone very close to the pope. This man tried to commit suicide for her and she had to leave the country and her current employer, said RANK O. is not happy. She ends up in South Africa but is thrown out as being a troublemaker. Now she ends up in southern France, together with Argentinian director Louis Saslavsky who had to flee his country cause of Peron. He did four films in France including the remarkable "She-Wolves/Demoniac". He may not be well-known to European audiences but in South America, he was...
