Six Swedish Girls in the Alps (3½ Stars)

This is the fourth film in the Six Swedish Girls series, made in 1983. Yes, I know I haven't written about the third film yet. I didn't realise I'd got the order wrong until the film was over, but it's not such a big deal. The first two films continue from one another, but the last two are standalone films that can be watched in either order.

Here's a small curiosity. The first two films were directed by Michael Thomas, which was a pseudonym for Erwin C. Dietrich. This film is also directed by Michael Thomas, but this time it's a pseudonym for Paul Grau. This is an attempt to pretend there's continuity, when there really isn't any. Erwin C. Dietrich has taken a step back and is only the producer. If you examine the film closely, it's obvious that it has a different style to the first two films, which were made in 1979 and 1980. While it's still a softcore film (i.e. there's no sexual penetration), it's closer to the border between soft and hard pornography. There are brief glimpses of erect penises in some scenes, which is something never shown in the first two films.

There's also the matter of the characters. It's the same six Swedish girls, supposedly. From left to write we have Greta, Lil, Kerstin, Inga, Astrid and Selma, but they're six new actresses. None of them appeared in the first two films, not one. They're also different actresses to the ones who appeared in the third film. In the first two films the girls were presented with different personalities: for instance, Kerstin was a lesbian, Selma was a clumsy girl and Greta was the most sexually adventurous. In this film they're interchangeable, they're all giggling and sex mad. That makes this film weaker than the others.

These are the Six Swedish Girls version 3. They're easy to tell apart by the names on their chests. At least, they can be told apart at the beginning of the film. They spend most of the film naked.

Curiously, the six original Swedish girls appear briefly in the film. One of the girls relates a story about a friend, and there's a scene which seems to be unused footage from "Julchen und Jettchen".

When six Swedish girls are in Switzerland, no man is safe.

This poor man ended up running naked from the office. I would have stayed and suffered.

The film has a very simple plot, compared to the first two films. The girls have returned to Switzerland to claim an inheritance. (Didn't they already inherit a petrol station in the second film?) While they're waiting for the paperwork to be finalised, they go on holiday to a remote cabin. The only man available is the landlord. Somehow he makes it through the first night, but in the morning he's afraid he won't survive, so he sends his faithful dog into the next village, Guggisberg, with a letter:

"Help! I'm trapped in my cabin with six Swedish girls. I need immediate assistance".

The letter is read by six men who rush to the cabin as fast as they can: a hunter, an angler, a schoolteacher, a shopkeeper, a postman and an innkeeper. The only problem is that the innkeeper's wife suspects what's happening and follows her husband.

When the men arrive the Swedish girls quickly strip their prey and sexually devour them. The cabin's landlord goes out to rest, but then the innkeeper's wife arrives and has sex with him.

I understand the problems faced by Hans the landlord, but I wouldn't have given up the way he did. We all have to die some day, so why not die in bed with sex Swedish girls?

His dog Ello is a beautiful St. Bernard.

Eventually the lawyer arrives in his helicopter, and the girls rush out greet him. Naked, of course.

They jump into the helicopter, still naked, to be flown to their inheritance. And they all lived happily ever after. The voiceover as the helicopter flies into the sunset promises a sequel, but this was the last film.