This film goes by four different titles and that's not too surprising since it doesn't seem to know whether it's a vampire film, soft porn , academic satire or just an excuse for actors and crew to jet off to Greece. Even having a clumsy overarching narration doesn't clear up the confusion.
Richard Fountain ( Patrick Mower ) is a brilliant young don stifled by the Provost ( Peter Cushing ) who's grooming him as successor and son-in-law . He goes to Greece looking for some relief and to ,ahem, be able to get it up. As he's the son of the Foreign Secretary Tony Seymour ( Alexander Davion ) some sort of undefined troubleshooter is engaged to bring him home after falling in with the wrong crowd. After that it's hard to make sense of what's going on.
Madeline Hinde ( as Penelope )
Sex : No- her fiance is impotent
Death : Richard tears her throat out
Madeline didn't make many films but was a reasonably successful TV actress in the seventies. She retired at the beginning of the eighties to raise a family. She is now 68.
Imogen Hassall ( as Chryseis )
Sex : Chryseis leads Richard to an orgy
Death : Falls from a stone staircase
Imogen appeared regularly on screen as a glamour girl with three separate appearances in The Saint for instance. She was much less busy in the seventies when her second marriage failed. She committed suicide by taking sleeping pills in 1980 aged 38.
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