Next up from Jean-Marie Pallardy is the much better Truck Stop (1978). Taking its cue from Homer‘s epic poem “Odyssey” (seriously, it does), Truck Stop tells the crazy tale of Eugene (or, Ulysses in the original Euro version, and portrayed by Pallardy himself), a young trucker who gets lost in the desert when his aging partner starts seeing scantily-clad bisexual sirens bearing bottled water, champagne, and J&B Scotch (a staple of '70s Euro films). While Eugene is held “captive” by Calypso (transsexual Ajita Wilson), his beautiful young wife Penelope/Pamela (Elizabeth Turner) is left to run a wayside truck stop inn full of horny truckers with her girlfriends.
As with many Euro sex comedies, Truck Stop doesn’t have the balls to take itself too seriously (to do so would result in something like, well, My Body Burns) and its “good-natured” attitude of promiscuous sex makes it a fun movie to whittle the time away with. Fans of Annik Borel (star of Werewolf Woman) will also want to take note of Truck Stop as it features the final performance of the elusive actress — as a transvestite.
Moving on (I’m going in no particular order, incidentally), we find ourselves with the final DVD in this series, Erotic Diary Of A Lumberjack (1974)...
(I’m going to pause for a moment to allow you to get Monty Python’s “Lumberjack Song” out of your system)...
Erotic Diary Of A Lumberjack stars Georges Guéret (also in Truck Stop) as Professor Muller, a man on the verge of winning a Nobel Peace Prize, but before learning of the news, he retreats to the countryside to get away from it all. Finding himself in a village that has turned into a huge brothel (and this village is located where?), Muller is at last able to fulfill the sexual urges for which “normal” society would judge him too harshly. Assuming the position of “the Lumberjack” (aka “the pimp”), Muller and his grown son (Pallardy) take on what look like the sweetest jobs in the world. Several horny heavy-drinking politicians (read: regular old politicians) arrive for some cheap thrills, much to the disdain of disapproving government authorities. That’s really about all of the “plot” there is here, kids — so just sit back and enjoy the flesh.
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