The Sidewalks of Bangkok (1984)

Completed from inception to final edited product in only fifteen days, The Sidewalks of Bangkok (1984) is magical in many ways. A sex and spy thriller set in the steamy hooker clubs of darkest Thailand, Bangkok’s sidewalks were in fact shot entirely upon the pavements of France, and all but one of the Asian characters was actually of European descent. With budget constraints as tight as the two-week time limitation, special effects were confined to implied violence and explicit, copious and rambunctious nudity. There is no denying the magic of a properly motivated stripper delivering her lines and then revealing the intimate contours of her physical self.