The Girl from Rio [SEP] director
The Girl from Rio
The Girl from Rio (1969) is a spy-fi film directed by Jesús Franco and starring Shirley Eaton, Richard Wyler and George Sanders. It was written and produced by Harry Alan Towers. In the film, a tribe of Amazonian women, led by their queen, attack wealthy men as part of a long-term plan to take over the world. A co-production between West Germany, Spain and the United States, it is also known as The Seven Secrets of Sumuru,
the Miss Marple series), the Marquis de Sade, and the works of Edgar Wallace. In fact Towers produced three separate film versions of "And Then There Were None", each set in a different locale.
He frequently collaborated with director Jesus Franco during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Towers had a hand in writing and/or producing numerous films directed by Franco, including "99 Women" (1969), "The Girl from Rio" aka "Rio 70" (1969), "Venus in Furs