Before BODY DOUBLE and DALLAS, Deborah Shelton was getting groped by Greek scoundrels in the sexploitation film DANGEROUS CARGO, on Blu-ray from Mondo Macabro.

Milthos (WHO PAYS THE FERRYMAN?'s Nikos Verlekis) is about to make his maiden voyage as the captain of a cargo ship bound for the Far East when his boatswain is discovered murdered. The port police assume the crime to be robbery, and a replacement (Kostas Karagiorgis, DIAMONDS ON HER NAKED FLESH) comes along very quickly; little does the captain suspect but the murder was arranged by gangsters who want the replacement to gain control of the ship and its secret cargo of nitroglycerine, diverting the course to Yemen to blow up the oil fields. The boatswain does not have much trouble getting the first mate Avgeni (Giorgos Hristodoulou, LUST FOR REVENGE) on his side since he is smarting from being overlooked to get his stripes and is jealous of Milthos for stealing his girl (Shelton), marrying her, and taking her aboard the ship for their honeymoon. It is not the boatswain has convinced the crew to mutiny under the conviction that the captain is risking their lives with an illegal shipment that he then tries to steer them towards the idea of getting rich off the shipment to keep them manning the ship towards its new destination. The boatswain makes the mistake, however, of sexually assaulting the captain's wife who is just as adept at using her body and her wits to turn the tables.

Although more action-oriented than some other Greek sexploitation films of the seventies – possibly through the ambition of Greek/American producer James Paris and director Karagiannis – who branched out a bit with the Greek/British horror film THE DEVIL'S MEN (where he was credited as "Costas Carayiannis") with which the film shares some cast – DANGEROUS CARGO knows that its primary asset is Shelton who looks just as striking clothed as she does nude even though her character is not even granted a name. The film's action must be seen to be believed, from a deck brawl that looks more like a disco, a mimed electrocution, and some more fisticuffs that barely connect. Sex, of course, is the film's raison d'etre, and the coverage is more quick and dirty than stylized, although strangely the sleaziness of the situations does not really come across. Shelton made three Greek exploitation films in the seventies, one other with director Karagiannis, but she would return to Greece a few years later to appear in the sea monster chiller BLOOD TIDE – a messy production between Nico Mastorakis (ISLAND OF DEATH) and Brian Trenchard-Smith (TURKEY SHOOT) helmed by Richard Jeffries (SCARECROWS) – for which she also provided a theme song produced by then-husband Shuki Levy (DAWN OF THE MUMMY).