Zeta One

A spy for Section 5, James Word, finds a secretary for the section waiting as he returns home. As they play strip poker, he tells about tailing Major Bourdon. Bourdon was conducting an investigation into the women from Angvia. The Angvians are led by Zeta, and are an all-women secret society. The Angvians regularly abducted other planet's women into their ranks where they were brainwashed to become operatives. Their next target is stripper ‘Ted’ Strain and so Section 5 uses her to set a trap for them. As Bourdon’s men take several of the Angvian agents prisoner, a final confrontation between the various parties occurs at his estate

• James Robertson Justice as Major Bourdon
• Charles Hawtrey as Swyne
• Robin Hawdon as James Word
• Anna Gaël as Clotho
• Dawn Addams as Zeta
• Brigitte Skay as Lachesis
• Valerie Leon as Atropos
• Lionel Murton as W
• Yutte Stensgaard as Ann Olsen
• Wendy Lingham as Edwina 'Ted' Strain
• Carol Hawkins as Zara
• Rita Webb as Clippie
• Steve Kirby as Sleth
• Paul Baker as Bourdon's Assistant
• Angela Grant as Angvia Girl
• Kirsten Betts as Angvia Girl

Zeta One was the first film shot at Camden Studios, which was formerly a wallpaper factory in North London.[2] The plot of the film was based on a comic strip short story in the magazine Zeta.[2] Art director Christopher Neame designed the film's sets. Location shooting took place around the city. The film was produced and distributed by the independent company Tigon Films run by Tony Tenser.

First screened to journalists in April 1969 to hostile reviews, the film sat on the shelf for 18 months before finally getting a UK release in October 1970, as the supporting feature to Kobi Jaegar's 1969 film Kama Sutra.[3]

It was made for a budget of £60,000.[4]

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.[5] It was released as a Blu-ray DVD in 2013.[6]

The film received negative reviews on its initial release.[2] In the Monthly Film Bulletin, David McGillivray described the film's themes as "quite preposterous in illogicality and silliness".[2] The movie was given 1 out of 5 stars, stating the movie was basically softcore pornography. Moria Reviews noted it is an odd mix of the James Bond type movies with a sex comedy.[7]

• Zeta One at IMDb