Glossy magazine cover with the bold title KIller Boots depicting Tura Satana as Varla wearing high-heeled boots in the film Faster Pussycat...

“Ladies and gentleman, welcome to violence.” Buckled, belted and booted, Tura Satana was the burlesque dancer-turned-action heroine who broke the hearts and bones of all the men who crossed her. The late icon is best known for her role as killer go-go dancer Varla in Russ Meyer’s cult film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965), during the course of which she drag races across the desert, unleashes some of the cattiest one-liners to have hit celluloid – most of them improvised – and generally kicks patriarchal ass.