My Body Hungers

My Body Hungers

A Lace Garterbelt Becomes An Instrument For Murder!

1967 · 80 min · ★ 4.5 · Crime, Mystery

Marcia, a sexy bucolic orphan, hitch-hikes to the city to meet up with her sister, who has promised her a job at the roadhouse where she works as a hostess. She has no qualms about sleeping with her driver in order to be safeguarded to her destination. Once she arrives, she discovers that her sister has recently been violently murdered -- in a stangulation by garter belt. Marcia takes her sister's job in order to go undercover in finding the murderer. She thus imperils her own life while making discoveries about her sister's former lifestyle and the seamy antics of the local civic leaders.

Directed by Joseph W. Sarno · Written by Joseph W. Sarno

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Gretchen Rudolph Marcia Teel
John Aristedes Det. Rod Loring
Tammy LaTour Joan Reynolds
Bella Donna Mavis Harvey
Joe Santos Truck driver
George Winship Det. Pete Forsythe
Geraldine Baron Janet Teel
Rickey Bell Oomphette
Patricia McNair Lynn
Frank Spencer Frank
Pat Powers Hal Parker / Master of Ceremonies

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