Giovannona Long-Thigh (1973)

Influenced by old-school screwball comedies and ’70s drive-in smut, Sergio Martino’s Italian sex comedy Giovannona Long-Thigh (1973) stars Edwige Fenech as a sassy, strong-willed hooker who stoops to helping a cheese-company executive (Gigi Ballista) whose business is flopping. Threatened with being shut down, Commandatore La Noce (Ballista) tries desperately to bribe Pedicò (Vittorio Caprioli), an abnormally upstanding politician. Money doesn’t talk, but when Pedicò gets a look at the CEO’s prostitute friend, Cocò, he’s suddenly willing to negotiate. Fenech is as irresistible as ever in a role she can really sink her teeth into––between her cunning wit and luscious legs, Fenech’s able to tie her male mark around her red-painted finger.