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Zeta One , also known as The Love Slaves , Alien Women and The Love Factor, is a 1970 British comedy film science fiction film directed by Michael Cort and starring James Robertson Justice, Charles Hawtrey and Dawn Addams. It was written by Cort and Alistair McKenzie, based on a comic strip short story in the magazine Zeta, and was produced by George Maynard and Tony Tenser for Tigon Films.
It was released in America by Film Ventures International, briefly in 1973 as The Love Slaves and then wider in 1974 under the titles Alien Women and The Love Factor.Stanley, J. (2000) Creature Feature: Third Edition It was released as a Blu-ray DVD in 2013.
Kine Weekly wrote: "This is a light skit on special agents and science fiction that should please the undemanding. ... The plot is introduced very slowly with a lot of talk, but improves once it gets going in the fantastic world of the Angvians, who, judging by their costumes, enjoy perfect central heating. Probability is a scarcity in the story: the touches of humour are obvious but amusing and some of the sequences are more than a little silly; but, generally speaking, it is fairly entertaining nonsense on a small scale. Robin Hawdon is a bland James Word; James Robertson Justice gives his usual, large performance as the wicked Col. Bourdon, and the main Angyian seductions are represented by Anna Gael and Yutte Stensgaard, with guest star Dawn Addams appearing as the Angvian queen bee."
In British Science Fiction Cinema Steve Chibnall called the film "a bizarre psychedelic concoction of sexploitation and feminist fable and a high-point of British cinema's flirtation with weirdness in the late 1960s," adding: "A critical and commercial failure on its release, Zeta One is easy to dismiss as a piece of crazed nonsense, but its significance lies in its eroticisation of collective feminist ambitions and its joyful welcome of a sexually rapacious matriarchy."
Moria Reviews noted it is an odd mix of the James Bond type movies with a sex comedy.
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