New article out on Criticine (http://www.criticine.com/main.php), an online
magazine specializing in Southeast Asian cinema:

http://www.criticine.com/review_article.php?id=14

Excerpt:

I watched Mario O'Hara's "Uhaw na Pag-ibig" (Thirst for Love, 1983)
expecting a mediocre production—no awards, no admiring words from
anyone--and for the first thirty minutes or so it pretty much
confirmed my suspicions. It's your run-of-the-mill, fallen-woman
story where Lala (Claudia Zobel) fights with her mother (Perla
Bautista), gets pregnant by her boyfriend (Patrick de La Rosa),
plans to elope with said boyfriend (who is stabbed while waiting in
an alley), and eventually runs away from home.

Matters become more interesting once she leaves. She hooks up with
Bong (Lito Pimentel) who gives her a dancing gig in a nightclub,
then asks her to "entertain" a select clientele of men to the tune
of two thousand pesos each (roughly 250, early '80s U.S. dollars).
Bong's pimping is just one of his sidelines; there's the suggestion
that he's also a drug-smuggler, and when one of his men bursts into
his bedroom with a bullet wound in the shoulder and a police officer
not far behind, Bong handles the situation with such cool
ruthlessness (O'Hara's clean staging and editing of the action
reminds you of Sam Fuller, or Raoul Walsh) that you suck your breath
in dismay: this guy is bad news, and too damned smart to beat
easily.