Velvet Glove Cast in Iron

In a single scene in a single film, Tura Satana forever changed the world of American cinema. Faced with an all-American boy and his all-American girlfriend, her wild go go dancer races him, cheats him and fights him, leaving him dead in the dirt. Suddenly it was possible for a woman to be tough and female at the same time and nobody has yet mastered that like Tura Satana did as Varla in "Faster, Pussycat Kill Kill "

In this book, the first full filmography of Tura Satana, film critic Hal C F Astell of Apocalypse Later explores her brief but important screen career through a comprehensive look at each of her feature films and TV show episodes.

The book features a foreword by Peaches Christ, legendary midnight movie maven in San Francisco who appeared in Tura's film, "Astro Zombies: M3 - Cloned"; and an afterword by Cody Jarrett, who directed Tura in "Sugar Boxx" and who is working on a documentary sourced from her unpublished memoir, "The Kick-Ass Life of Tura Satana."

A full list of chapters includes: "Irma la Douce" (1963)
"Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?" (1963)
"Burke's Law: Who Killed the Paper Dragon?" (1964)
"The Man from UNCLE: The Finny Foot Affair" (1964)
"Faster, Pussycat Kill Kill " (1965)
"Our Man Flint" (1966)
"The Girl from UNCLE: The Moulin Ruse Affair" (1967)
"The Astro-Zombies" (1968)
"The Doll Squad" (1973)
"Mark of the Astro-Zombies" (2002)
"Sugar Boxx" (2009)
"The Haunted World of El Superbeasto" (2009)
"Astro-Zombies: M3 - Cloned" (2010)