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One night, a man in straitjacket, who seems to have escaped from an insane asylum, runs into a girl on a bench in the park and decides to tell her his life story. He was a young Egyptologist, who moved to an abandoned film studio turned boarding house. The place is owned by a horrid wheelchair-bound woman, who plans to sell it asap. Her tenants include one of Hitler's genetically engineered sons who's about to be inaugurated as the new Fuhrer, his evil incestuous lusty lesbian Nazi aunts, a voodoo zombie, a vampire scientist and other strange individuals. When a beautiful young naked virginal feral woman shows up in their seaside town of Babylon, Australia, chaos ensues. It turns out she'd been lost as a baby and was raised by dingoes but now she wants to meet her real family and the unhinged landlady is her mother. Mom is quite unpleasantly surprised by the arrival of the girl, since she purposefully left her to die in the wilderness for a very good reason and she tries to get rid of...

The often nude lead character of Dingo Girl is played by Amanda Dole, a Playboy Playmate. She was Australian Playboy's Playmate of the Month in December of 1981. She was also the Australian edition of the magazine's youngest Playmate at the time.

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    • Author: Chilele
    The obvious stylistic (if that's the word) influence on this fiasco is the Troma school of low budget schlock but the level of talent on display is more that of the monumentally untalented Edward D. Wood Jr. The screenplay quickly loses its way through the absurd plot lines and just piles scene on scene in the hope that it will somehow work. It doesn't. The plot threads involve such inanities as Nazi lesbians, dingo girls, and a wheelchair bound megalomaniac harridan. To have any chance at all of raising a laugh it needed a director with his tongue firmly in his cheek. Haydn Keenan instead had his head firmly up his ass and we end up with about a dozen sniggers and not one laugh.

    Male lead David Argue gives easily the most embarrassing performance of his career, but can perhaps claim it as a crime of passion since he was reported at the time to be romantically entangled with female lead (and Australian Playboy Playmate) Amanda Dole. Her acting career came to a screeching halt with this performance. Towards the end of the film she was crucified which turned out to be good preparation for the reviews.
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    • Author: Kezan
    Given the title, and the subject matter, I cannot believe that anyone would take this movie seriously... It is the story of a DINGO GIRL. That should be a bit of a clue to the farcical nonsense that is to follow. The first five minutes set the tone. It was obviously not meant to be logical. It was meant to be ridiculous. Which it is... I guess it would only be Australians that get the whole "Dingo Girl" reference. And being an issue that somewhat divided the country, some may find the references somewhat distasteful. If you are going to take offense at that issue, then there are plenty of other issues in the movie to take offense at as well. All in all a funny movie...with a playboy model in a lead role. That does not happen everyday.
  • Cast overview, first billed only:
    David Argue David Argue - Kales Leadingham / Ding the Dingo
    Amanda Dole Amanda Dole - The Dingo Girl
    Esben Storm Esben Storm - E.B. De Woolf
    Arna-Maria Winchester Arna-Maria Winchester - P.B. De Woolf
    Lex Marinos Lex Marinos - Detective Sergeant Dick Dickerson
    Rainee Skinner Rainee Skinner - 1st Twin
    Kerry Mack Kerry Mack - 2nd Twin
    Ian Nimmo Ian Nimmo - Mr. David
    Ashley Grenville Ashley Grenville - Little Adolph / Paperboy
    Mercia Deane-Johns Mercia Deane-Johns - Morticia
    Henk Johannes Henk Johannes - The Count
    Pete Smith Pete Smith - Peter Kong
    Gary Foley Gary Foley - The Holy Ghost
    Haydn Keenan Haydn Keenan - Dr. Doctor
    Ignatius Jones Ignatius Jones - Director / Marriage Celebrant / Auctioneer
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