Gwendoline (1984)

User Rating:

4.7/10   

Director:

Just Jaeckin

Writer:

Just Jaeckin (writer)
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Release Date:

25 January 1985 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Fantasy

Tagline:

Outrageous adventures in the Kingdom of Women

Plot:

Gwendoline arrives in China in a box, and is helped out of her immediate predicament by a female contact and a devil-may-care adventurer...

Plot Keywords:

Butterfly | Nudity | Non Statutory Female On Male Rape | Jungle | Cult Favorite

Cast

Tawny Kitaen	...	Gwendoline
Brent Huff	...	Willard
Zabou Breitman	...	Beth (as Zabou)
Bernadette Lafont	...	The Queen
Jean Rougerie	...	D'Arcy
Roland Amstutz
Jean Stanislas Capoul
Chen Chang Ching
Vernon Dobtcheff
André Julien	...	Tom
Takashi Kawahara
Kristopher Kum		(as Christopher Kum)
Loi Lam Duc
Maurice Lamy
Jim Adhi Limas
Georges Lycan
Dominique Marcas
Roger Paschy
Hua Quach
Patricia Attwood
Marie-Françoise Aupecle
Nathalie Belanger
Catherine Bartoli
Desirée Bergh
Martine Blondeaux
Cathy Brasseur
Arline Burks
Aurelie Crasson
Mathilde Chapelle
Isabel Boncan Clemente
Valérie Deschamps
Marie-Laure De Beausacq
Isabelle Chaudieu
Joyce Davoren
Catherine Drapier
Caline De Chatellus
Pascale Epry
Laurence Fabre
Maranha Fernandez
Catherine Ferrare
Luzia Fuji
Christine Galard
Christiane Gangloff
Maryse Gauthier
Yasmine Gerault
Frédérique Givaudan
Sylvie Hammouda
Évelyne Henz
Suthany Houl
Nathalie Judelle
Isabelle Labat
Judy Larsen
Chantal Lay
Lynda Leftwitch
Valérie Lefort
Caroline Leloup
Florence Lesgourgues
Gaëlle Licot
Cathy Massol
Karin-Marie Mercier
Nathalie Milhau
Roxane Nouban
Sylvie Oswaldt
Alison Parsons
Radjia Rajabaly
Sylvie Ravat
Paula Riollaci
Emmanuelle Sallet
Anne-France Saunier
Françoise Seni
Beatrice Serguieff
Tedy Shaffer
Weronika Tanaka
Martha Vega
Margo Verdoorn
Joan Viskant
Melissa Wai
Cornélia Wilms
Siri Wolland
Tomoko Yokomitsu
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Annemieke Verdoorn	...	(uncredited)

Directed by
Just Jaeckin

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Just Jaeckin		writer
Jean-Luc Voulfow		uncredited
John Willie		comic strip by: The Adventures of Sweet Gwendolyn (uncredited)

Produced by
Jean-Claude Fleury	....	producer
Serge Laski	....	producer

Original Music by
Pierre Bachelet
Bernard Levitte

Cinematography by
André Domage

Film Editing by
Michèle Boëhm

Production Design by
Françoise Deleu

Set Decoration by
André Guérin

Costume Design by
Claude Renard
François Schuiten

Makeup Department
Marie-Thérèse Alonso	....	makeup artist
Dominique Colladant	....	makeup artist
Isabelle Gamsohn	....	hair stylist
Reiko Kruk	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Michel Brando	....	associate unit manager
Michel Dubois	....	associate unit manager
Pierre Gauchet	....	production manager
Marcel Godot	....	unit manager
Omar Jawal	....	assistant production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Yves Amoureux	....	first assistant director
Serge Cukier	....	second assistant director
Jean-Claude Ventura	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Isabelle Decaë	....	first assistant set decorator
Henri Sonois	....	first assistant set decorator

Sound Department
Michèle Amsellem	....	sound editor
Antoine Cambourakis	....	assistant sound recordist
Gilbert Courtois	....	sound recordist
Jean-Pierre Lelong	....	sound effects
Jean-Marc Lentretien	....	sound mix technician
Bernard Leroux	....	sound mixer
René Levert	....	sound
Claude Villand	....	sound mixer

Special Effects by
Christian Bourqui	....	special effects head
Jacques Martin	....	special effects head
Alain Moreau	....	special effects assistant

Visual Effects by
Euro-Titres	....	titles and opticals

Stunts
Nella Barbier	....	stunts
Cécile Girard	....	stunts (as Cecile Gerard)
Sara Kingston	....	stunts
Roland Neunreuther	....	stunts (as Roland Neunreuter)
Daniel Perche	....	stunts
Daniel Vérité	....	stunt advisor
Lionel Vitrant	....	stunts (as Lionel Virant)

Camera and Electrical Department
Jean-Pierre Aliphat	....	first assistant camera
Georges Bosio	....	still photographer
Philippe Bovar	....	second assistant camera
Jean-Paul Meurisse	....	camera operator
Marcel Moncel	....	gaffer
Juan Quirno	....	still photographer
René Strasser	....	key grip

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Danièle Flis	....	wardrobe
Nicole Judet	....	wardrobe assistant

Editorial Department
Michèle Lavigne	....	assistant film editor
Michèle Robert-Lauliac	....	assistant film editor

Music Department
Jean-Marc Lentretien	....	assistant music scoring mixer
Guy Matteoni	....	orchestrator

Other crew
Sophie Thévenet-Becker	....	script supervisor (as Sophie Thévenet)

Production Companies

• Films de L'Alma
• G.P.F.I.
• Parafrance Films

Distributors

• Samuel Goldwyn Company, The (1985) (USA) (theatrical) (dubbed)
• Astral Films (1985) (Canada) (theatrical) (dubbed) (87 minute US version "The Perils of Gwendoline")
• Succéfilm AB (198?) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• Nucleus Films (2005) (UK) (DVD)
• Severin Films (2006) (USA) (DVD)
• Big Sky Video (2008) (Australia) (DVD)
• CIC Video (????) (Canada) (VHS) (dubbed) (original 105 minute export version "Gwendoline")
• Culture Publishers (CP) (????) (Japan) (DVD)
• Culture Publishers (CP) (????) (Japan) (VHS)
• Image Entertainment (????) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
• Japan Ace Corporation (????) (Japan) (VHS)
• Nippon Columbia Co. Ltd. (????) (Japan) (DVD)
• Obshchestvennoye Rossijskoye Televideniye (ORT) Video (????) (Russia) (VHS)
• Vestron Video (1985) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
• Vestron Video (????) (USA) (VHS)
• Warner Home Video (????) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)

Also Known As:

The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak (USA)

Runtime:

105 min | USA:87 min

Country:

France

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Australia:M | Italy:VM14 | Australia:R (2008) | Canada:R (Ontario) | Finland:K-16 | UK:18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Paris Studios Cinéma, Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Company:

Films de L'Alma

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: Most of the dialogue is not lip-synched accurately.

Quotes:

D'Arcy: The Queen's Will is the Will of the Queen!

So bad, it's GREAT!!

This movie is one of the great old "B" movies from the 80s. The acting is totally amateur, but perfect for the campy theme. It has everything needed for an adventure movie of this type; jungle localles, dirty boat captain, gambling, savages, and the always welcome nude scenes (wow, but Beth really made the movie!!)

Rent it, buy it, borrow it, STEAL it!! It's worth the time!!!