Topic: Jimmy's XXX Movies review

[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: Secrets of a Willing Wife (1980)

Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Gurney
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h11
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Merle Michaels
Eric Edwards
Rikki O'Neal
Patty Boyd
Arcadia Lake

Plot:
Upon returning home from a day of shopping, our New York housewife is startled to find her husband cavorting in bed with her best friend. She throws down her wedding band and storms out. The distressed wife concludes that only her own sexual inadequacy would cause her husband to have another woman in her bed and on the advice of her psychiatrist, visits CheeChee, a sex therapist with racy ideas about how to cure marital problems.

My Thoughts:

Another good discovery that had many cast members of Debbie Does Dallas and evidently Patty Boyd using a different name again. The story is interesting since it deals with a fail marriage and how to make it works again (ok it's an adult movie, so we know what is the problem and what will be solution). I can't say that Merle Michaels is one of my favorite actress (not really my kind of woman and not really a great one to lead a movie), but she's ok to play a young naive woman. Evidently when Eric Edwards is in a movie you know that you will see a real acting performance and this is the case here too. Patty Boyd give a funny performance playing the sex therapist with a great mexican accent. Finally Rikki O'Neal looks as good than always and she isn't a bad actress also (she haven't appears in a lot of movies, but she is always great). The director had used one of my favourite trick in this movie when Susan had her last appointment with her psychiatrist. She gave him oral sex, but we never see him and all happen like if we were the receiver since she seems to talk directly to the viewer (love this since I've watched Rene Bond's Sex Fantaisies the first time). By the way this scene is introduced by this phrase said directly at the camera : "I want to have a party in my mouth and I want you to be the first to come".

Another recommandation

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[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: High School Bunnies (1977)

Genre: Comedy
Director: John Christopher
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h20
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Beth Anna
Roger Caine
Paula Morton
Patty Boyd
Clea Carson

Plot:
As our story begins, Barbi lives in Kansas, dreaming of what life would be like in the Big City. Her secret fantasy is to become a sexy Bali High Bunnie. Enjoy her seeking acceptance of her peers through a long sexual initiation. Her wonderful quest for sexual awareness teaches the Bali High Bunnies what an expert Barbi really is. This movie introduces several luscious, lovely, little ladies lusting for fun and frolic. The Bunnies will leave you breathless and craving for more.

My Thoughts:

This one is a deception... Sure you have a good casting, I will certainly not make any complaint about a movie with Patty Boyd, Clea Carson, Beth Anna and Roger Caine (a real actor that you can appreciated in George Romero's Martin) but... This movie doesn't have a story or it has one for 5 minutes. I've said often enough that I watched those movies to see a story with sex scenes and not sex scenes patched together as an excuse for a movie.

The synopsis is interesting but the movie doesn't deliver, you can pass this one.

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[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: Resurrection of Eve (1973)

Genre: Drama
Director: Jon Fontana and Artie Mitchell
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h24
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Mimi Morgan
Marilyn Chambers
Matthew Armon
Kandi Jones
Johnny Keyes

Plot:
Resurrection of Eve' is the tale of Frank and Eve Paradise, who discover that it takes a lot more than physical attraction to make a relationship work. Their conflict stems from Frank's unrealistic jealousy which so upsets Eve that she becomes involved in a car accident. When Eve is "resurrected" as a beauty following plastic surgery, she and Frank make amends and are soon married. However, their nuptial bliss is hampered by Frank's reluctance to give up his pre-monogamous life-style. Thinking he is missing out on a lot of action, Frank persuades the hesitant Eve to attend group orgies with him. Although disgusted in the beginning, Eve soon learns to enjoy them, much to Frank's dismay.

My Thoughts:

I see this one as a movie clearly in two distinct parts. The first one is before Eve had her car accident and her surgery and the second is after the accident. Eve is played before the accident by Mimi Morgan (her first role) and this is my favourite part of the film. The movie here is more romantic, poetic and doesn't really had a lot of explicit sex scenes, but the story is mostly in this section and the acting is more interesting. Sadly after the accident, even with the presence of Marilyn Chambers, the story take a trip to the Behind the green door territory and the film become less interesting with only bad orgy scene after another. As usual with the Mitchell brothers movies most of the performers are unknown (Matthew Armon who played the husband of Eve isn't a bad actor even if this is his only film), but Dale Meador one of their regular is there to play a creepy guy and Johnny Keyes is there for the final with Miss Chambers.

This isn't a bad movie, but an uneven one.

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[DJ Doena]

When I saw the cover, I instinctively thought "Huh, Kate Hudson".

[Jimmy]

The cover doesn't really reflect how beautifull she was, this cover is a little bit too generic and not her best picture. This is how she looks in the movie.

[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: Taboo (1980)

Genre: Drama
Director: Kirdy Stevens
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h26
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Kay Parker
Mike Ranger
Juliet Anderson
Dorothy Lemay
Michael Morrison

Plot:
After her husband has run off with his sexy secretary, Kay Parker finds herself alone, living with only her teen-age son. While the son has an extremely active sex and love life, the mother starts looking around. She visits an all-out orgy, but doesn't find anything interesting. Then one day she happens to catch her son in the nude coming out of a shower, and tingles run up and down her spine. She fights to control the temptations of her incestuous desires. But her son is a willing victim. The film's unusual `taboo' premise and abundant sex has made this one of the most popular movies ever released: an instant classic!

My Thoughts:

Here we have a classic and the chance are good that someone else than me had seen it. The story is particullary interesting and contrary to many other movies on the same subject the story is presented in good taste. We see the devellopment of the attraction as it happens (slowly and not immediate, the first time is even an "Accident"). The acting isn't that great, but Kay Parker, Juliet Anderson and Michael Morrison (even if his role isn't really big) do a good job. Well filmed and written, it could had been easilly a mainstream film without the sex scenes. You can recognize many familliar visage in the big orgy scene (that is not bad like they are usually). Even if the movie is a drama, you will laugh many times.

Evidently this is a recommandation.

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[MEJHarrison]

...and Michael Morrison (even if his role isn't really big)...

I've seen this and I'd say his part in the movie wasn't big, but then it was for a little bit, then it wasn't again.

[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: A Climax of Blue Power (1974)

Genre: Crime
Director: F.C. Perl
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h22
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Jason Carns
Linda Harris
Betty Childs
Mary Tomkins
Sally Martin

Plot:
Reviled by critics for its intermingling of violence and twisted sex, Climax is one of the boldest, most unrelenting roughies ever made! A sex criminal security guard gets off impersonating an LAPD officer. During his voyeuristic prowls, he bullies and debases hookers. He accidentally spies a woman killing her husband, and he fantasizes about brutalizing the murderess until she has the appropriate, final remedy he is seeking. Climax is a well made edge of the seat ride, shockingly hostile in intent and execution, and is a must see for anyone into roughies!

My Thoughts:

I wanted to watch this one for a long time and I've finally found it this week. Evidently what I've seen is in a really bad shape, but for me this is better since this is the way you are supposed to watch those movies. I was interested in this movie for many good reasons (at least for me). Firstly, the director who is in fact Lee Frost using an alias. Frost is a well known director in the exploitation industry who had classic movies like Love Camp 7, Hot Spur, The Defilers, The Scavengers, The Thing with Two Heads and many others in his CV. Secondly, Angela Carnon is in it and she was a pretty good actress in many seventies drive-in movies like Booby Trap, Drop-Out Wife and The Dirty Mind of Young Sally. Finally the fact that this is a roughies had win me.

The film itself is a pretty good one that could have been easilly a drive-in classic without the hardcore scenes. In fact they doesn't look like they were in the movie initially (pretty obvious when the Angela Carnon character is attacked by Eddie). But they add something to the criminal psyche, since I see those evidents "stunt women" as a part of the confuse mind of Eddie. You never really know what is the motivation of Eddie for his actions, he seems to be an ex-police officer but this isn't that clear. Evidently everyone in the cast had used an alias and the Internet Adult Film Database isn't a big help to find them, But using my eyes I've recognized some people. So in the cast we have Angela Carnon (she's the girl with the gun on the poster), Starlyn Simone aka Mindy Brandt (Angel Above and the Devil Below, A Dirty Western, A Touch Of Sweden), Kathy Hilton (The Takers, Teaser, The Toy Box), Nikki Hilton (Through the Looking Glass), Uschi Digard (in a small cameo) and Bob Cresse (memorable in the role of the camp guardian in Love Camp 7).

Not as rough as its reputation make you believe, but a movie that I've really appreciated from the beginning untill the end.

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[Achim]

Evidently everyone in the cast had used an alias and the Internet Adult Film Database isn't a big help to find them, But using my eyes I've recognized some people.

I had no idea there was such a thing as the Internet Adult Film Database

[Jimmy]

It exist since many years, it's a great ressource and more reliable than imdb (even if I ain't one of the imdb = worst evil place on earth guys). The database was maintained many years by Peter van Aarle (one of the most respected archivist in the domain) before his death and now it works with contribution (but even more strict than the DVDP database ). It's a good site to get lost on for hours with all the info there.

Internet Adult Film Database

[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: 3 A.M. (1975)

Genre: Drama
Director: Robert McCallum
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h26
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Georgina Spelvin
Charles Hooper
Clair Dia
Rhonda Gellard
Frank Mauro

Plot:
Mark and Elaine are married and living in an isolated California beach house with their two teenage children, Ronnie and Stacy, and Elaine's sister Kate, with whom her husband Mark has been having an affair for years. When Mark threatens to leave Elaine one night, Kate runs after him to his boat, hoping that now they can go off together. When Mark refuses, Kate, in a moment of rage, hits him with a champagne bottle sending him overboard. Unable to save him, she returns home, not telling anyone of her deed. The film then chronicles how each family member deals with the death of their loved one and the often irrational, frequently perverse behaviors the death, as well as their overwhelming sense of loneliness and isolation, makes them do. Meanwhile, Kate becomes stricken more and more by her own guilt and grief, so much so she looses her own will to live.

My Thoughts:

A very rare theme for an adult movie that is well executed. But it isn't that surprising when we know that Robert McCallum is an alias for Gary Graver a very well known cinematographer and the director or co-director of many relativelly known films like A Woman Under the Influence, The Hard Road, Texas Lightning or Girls for Rent. The cast are a good ensemble of talented actors : Georgina Spelvin is one of the best actress of the golden age, Clair Dia is a real actress who was in The Cheerleaders and Doctor Dracula, Sharon Thorpe (another underated actress) proove all her acting talent here in her better performance with the one in Candy Stripers and the rest of the cast composed mostly of one timer did a nice job too. For the film itself what you have here is more an erotic film than a graphic one, with some real arousing moment like the fantasm scene in the shower (this is my personal interpretation of it) between Georgina Spelvin and Judith Hamilton (a good friend of miss Spelvin).  

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[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

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Title: Long Jeanne Silver (1977)

Genre: Weird
Director: Alex De Renzy
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h02
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Jean Silver
Paul Thomas
Lori Blue
Amber Hunt
China Leigh

Plot:
A pretty amputee, appeared in men's magazines and on San Francisco burlesque stages. She had the lower part of her left leg removed when she was a child. The remaining stump, extending several inches below her knee, is little more than bone covered with flesh. Director Alex DeRenzy uses the pseudo- documentary format to display Silver's sexual habits.

My Thoughts:

I have this one for quite a while and I wasn't really in a hurry to watch it for some pretty obvious reasons. Finally after skipping it many times I've decided to watch it tonight. Let start this by saying that I've seen many WTF adult movies in my life and except for a Dutch or German film on a farm this is the weirdest thing I've ever seen on tape. The synopsis doesn't give too much, but it's not that hard to make 2+2=4 and understand what this movie is all about. For those who aren't good in math, Jean Silver had one of her lower leg missing and she use her stump to fuck. You can guess that it isn't really sexy or arousing or interesting to watch for an hour. This isn't enough that we had to see Amber Hunt, Kristine Heller and China Leigh received the stump treatment, we have to watch a poor unnamed guy (all the De Renzy's movies had no credits) receiving it too and it looks as uncomfortable that it sounds. The worst is that a good movie could have been done around this theme with a nice story and some variations, honestly after the second scenes with the poor guy I was already tired of this. Sure Jean Silver is a cute little blond, Lori Blue is a redhead and we have a pre-surgery Amber Hunt, but the fact remains that what we have here is one hour of stump screwing     

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[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: A Touch of Genie (1974)

Genre: Comedy
Director: Karl Andersson
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h22
Video: Widescreen
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Douglas Stone
Chris Jordan
Ultramax
Harding Harrison
Tina Russell

Plot:
Poor Melvin! His meddling mother is making him nutz. His only relief is the covert afternoons he spends at New York s notorious Times Square porn theaters. One day, Melvin discovers a genie in a bottle. What does he wish? To become his favorite adult superstars and indulge in wild sexual adventures with the sexiest women of the silver screen.

My Thoughts:

This one is more my style of movie than the precedent one, but is it really a surprise... Not really when we know that the director of this film is Joe Sarno hidden behing an alias and I am a big fan of him (I own 16 movies that he had directed). This film play liked an X movie except that some of the moment are hardcore, in fact another version was made at the same time without the adult content and was considered lost untill After Hours Cinema found a print (it will be release this month with Deep Throat 2 and The Switch or How to Alter Your Ego on a 2 DVD set of Sarno's comedy fill with extra like a commentary from Levi Richards, interviews of Douglas Stone and Sarno, trailers and much more. You can be sure that this one is on my wishlist). The story is funny and fill with one liner. Chris Jordan that I've really appreciated in Confessions of a Young American Housewife and Abigail Leslie is back in town give her best acting performance here playing the Genie. Harding Harrison that played the man scamed in The Bite does a good job playing the friend of Melvin. Douglas Stone in his only film role had the perfect comic timing and goofy look for playing the title character (I'm not sure why he had done nothing else, I hope that he will explain why in his interview on the future disc). You add to the mix Tina Russel (she's not only one of the most beautifull woman to had appear in the early adult film, she was quite a good actress too), Harry Reems, Marc Stevens (always doing his self promotion wearing a Mr. 10 and a half t-shirt), Levi Richards, Eric Edwards and Sandy Fox.

A recommandation and depending of your taste you can get the version reviewed here or the future X rated release.

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[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: Dominatrix Without Mercy (1976)

Genre: S&M
Director: Shaun Costello
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h02
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Marlene Willoughby
C.J. Laing
Vanessa del Rio
Mel White
Marc Stevens

Plot:
Wall to wall hard action from the notorious Avon team! Marlene Willoughby goes to work in a busy Manhattan dominance apartment. Overlapping vignettes cater to true S&M enthusiasts. Masochistic superstar Terri Hall changes caps as a dominant. Jamie Gillis is a rope freak kept in a closet. Vanessa Del Rio gives the submissive performance of a lifetime; you'll be amazed she went through it. With golden showers!

My Thoughts:

This film is certainly not for everyone, but a lot of the movies I reviewed aren't. The domination in the film is real, so the whipping leave some marks, the slapping is hard, the tying look unconfortable and the language is rough. No story is really present this is more a serie of vignettes (certainly edited for the person with attention deficit disorder ), but it's ok for me this time. You can notice that the movie includes male and female domination, whatever sex is the master the action is as rough. The one where Grover Griffith is dominated by Marlene Willoughby and Ultramax is particullary good (even funny ), he will get the beating of his life to teach him to not arrive late again. All the actors there are well known and one of them probably more for most of you : Fred J. Lincoln who was in Last House on the Left... The movie is short at 62 minutes, but it's enough since a too long running time would have plays against him. This film is important historically talking since it was the first rough Sado/Maso film made for the New-York Avon theatre.

A good movie in this genre and of course not available at the friendly videoclub near you.

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[Jimmy]

MOVIE / DVD INFO:

Title: The Debauchers (1971)

Genre: Drama
Director: Sidney Knight
Rating: XXX
Length: 1h12
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
Tina Russell
Jason Russell
Terry De Lane
Daniel Harin
Daria Barton

Plot:
They thought it was just a film. It became far more. They have been changed. Forever.

My Thoughts:

It's weird but I'm sure that I've already seen this one a long time ago and it wasn't the kind of adult movie that I was renting as a teenager (didn't really care for the story in those years), maybe it's just a case of a familliar story. Since the plot doesn't really say anything about the movie (looks more like a tagline to me) this is my poor synopsis. Joan (Tina Russell) and Frank (Jason Russell) are in need of money and checking the wanted ad in the newspaper they find a job offer for an experimental film paying a thousand dollars for a week of work. It looks like a legitimate project first, but something suspicious will happen fast that will scare Joan to death and change the young couple life forever.

I am always amaze when I come across an early hardcore film that had a good quality and made very seriously (with some rare exception the film made before 1973 are always goofy and hard to take seriously). The story look like something that Michael Findlay could had been wrote and directed, but with more subtlety than his usual materials (it's not one of his film, since not a single actor of his usual cast is present). The film isn't that graphic, sure the sex is hardcore but no zoom are use and not a single cum shot is shown (the film was rated 15 in Sweden). The film countains a big twist and a surprise ending who was certainly the inspiration for another film made five years later¹. The acting is pretty good too, except for Tina and Jason Russell and the old man playing the psychiatrist (Daniel Harin) none of the actor had appeared in a movie before or after this one (they were probably in a New York theater Troop).

Great discovery, even with the feeling of déjà vue, the only reproach that I can make is that this film isn't long enough.

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The end of Snuff exploit the same kind of ending, but the movie is less enjoyable since we had to endure more than one hour of bad dubbing before a cheaply done end