cult film freak: NORMA PARNELL AND PAULINE SHEPERD IN 'OPERATION CUPID'

Pauline Shepard in Operation Cupid Year: 1960 Rates: ***1/2

Although the low-budget British comedy OPERATION CUPID stars three men basically acting like cockney versions of those famous American Stooges, it's three young women that matter and, unlike the guys... a loser trio who win a marriage agency in a card game... the gals are dispersed throughout...

Beginning with MYSTERIOUS ISLAND beauty BETH ROGAN as an experienced barmaid, only around when the boys meet an old rich fella who hands them the business...

And then, trying to quickly profit and split, they're forced to rely upon this film's femme fatale in the gorgeous black-haired model Norma Parnell as a sultry secretary fitfully named Lola...

Who not only shows these mugs the ropes on how to bilk a rich woman looking for a rich husband, turning out to be this trio's Moe in bulbous-nosed Charles Farrell, she winds up trying to have the client.... actually conning the con artists... murdered for the insurance... And that lady's daughter is not only the cutest girl yet, she has the greatest ass ever filmed... And with Introducing credit is Pauline Shepard (who'd play a hooker in Hammer's THE TWO FACES OF DR. JEKYLL) and, well... There are far worse ways to spend an hour than OPERATION CUPID.