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Porn Classics Revisited – Naked Came the Stranger – VCA Pictures – 1975

This week we take you back forty seven long years ago to 1975. It was a decade of change. There was the disco rage for one and one other change that would have a major impact on the U.S., the world and how the entire world would communicate in the future. So let’s look back and see what 1975 was like and what took place in our world back then.

As always lets first look at the cost of living. The average income in the U.S. was a whopping $14,000. a year, the average rent was just $200 a month for an apartment. You could buy a brand new 3 bedroom home for an average price of just $40,000. When came to automobiles, the average price was around $4,200, but you could go expensive and buy a new Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale for $5,625. A gallon of gas was only 44 cents. You could get a Hershey chocolate bar for 15 cents and a Big Mac for only 70 cents. Men’s leisure suits were popular and cost only $39.00.As for news headlines and what was taking place here and around the world……..The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces take Saigon and South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally……..The US carries out the Vietnam “Operation Babylift” that brings Vietnamese orphans to the US…….Jimmy Hoffa ex teamsters boss disappears never to be seen again……..Patti Hearst becomes Most Wanted and then arrested for armed robbery………It is also in 1975 that two young men, Bill Gates and Paul Allen would create a new company called Microsoft……..New computers are starting to appear including the Altair 8800 and the battle for video recorder standards of VHS and Betamax begin.

In the world of entertainment among the year’s big films were  “Jaws”, “Young Frankenstein”, “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” and “The Godfather II”. In the music world LaBelle, the Eagles, Black Sabbath, Elton John, Paul McCartney and Wings  and Chicago are the big record sellers. On TV among the big shows were The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Waltons, All in the Family, M*A*S*H and Happy Days. We lost a number of celebrities in 1975 including blues performer T-Bone Walker, actress Susan Hayward, baseball manager Casey Stengel, TV writer and host Rod Serling and comedienne Moms Mabley.

In the world of porn, films are still being shot, for the most part, in New York, but some productions pop up on the west coast. New stars, new camera techniques all play into the growing popularity of porn. Despite protests from morality groups, government threats and new laws, the porn industry is creating a whole new entertainment niche for consenting adults. One of the films to come out in 1975, was a great film based on a best selling book, the film is titled, Naked Came The Stranger”.

Naked Came The Stranger – 1975 – VCA Pictures – Director – Radley Metzger – Cast – Darby Lloyd Rains, Mary Stuart, Helen Madigan, Levi Richards, Alan Marlow, others.

This truly a work of art from porn’s golden age. It is actually based on a best seller on the N.Y. Times list back in the day. How the best selling book came about is a story in itself. But the film adaptation immediately became a major porn hit.

Starring Darby Lloyd Rains in one of her best ever performances she not only was sexually appealing, but she also possessed fantastic acting chops and it made this exceptionally produced film even better. With Metzger (aka Henry Paris) at the helm his films always had somewhat of way of using the imagination as you watched the film unfold and that is what you have here, and brilliantly done.

In the film Darby and her husband play radio talk show hosts who discuss sex on the air with their listeners and callers. But away from the mic, hubby is having an affair. When Darby finds out, well what’s good for the goose is good for the gander, so she decides to have one of her own. This turns their lives both on and off the air into one frenetic round of sexual pleasure and excitement as they try to keep their own lives together. The sex scenes offer more than you might expect for the time. There is humor, there is pathos, there is wonderment that all blends together extremely well. The sex scenes are explosive, nothing held back and offer plenty of good stroke time for the viewer. Ms. Rains really gets into her sex scenes and her penchant for real sexual connections and feelings made her performances even better. Great performances all around, sexually and non sexually in this true classic from the golden age. In addition to all this the music track that accompanies this film is excellent and lends to the overall feel of the film

You can find it today completely remastered in HD and with a ton of great extras added such as how the restoration was done, the soft and hard cuts, deleted scenes, director’s commentary, trailers of other Metzger porn classics, a 40 page booklet that tells of the entire history and process of the film and a lot more. If you are looking for a great porn classic, this 5 star gem “Naked Came A Stranger” is a great place to start.

Art Koch, National Features & DVD Editor, NightMoves Magazine and AAN

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ART OF ADULT – Porn Classics Revisited – “The Story of Joanna” – AVC Films – 1975

This week we take you back forty four years to 1975. What do you remember from that year?  For me, my country music management and artist booking company, Warric Productions, was doing well in the New York-New Jersey area and Nashville. The adult industry and moving to Florida wasn’t even a tiny blip on my radar screen then.

As always we begin with the cost of living in 1975. The average income per year was just $14,500., the average cost of a new 3 bedroom home was around $39,300. You could buy a new Chevrolet Caprice for $4,800 or a Ford Mustang for $4,100. Gas was now a whopping 44 cents a gallon. A loaf of bread was 28 cents, a gallon of milk $1.05 and a record album was $3.99. It was a year when Pet Rocks made their debut and a new candy known as “Jelly Bellies” also made their debut. BIC introduces the disposable razor. The Laser Printer is introduced. Kodak is working on a new product, the digital camera. As for some of the news headlines…….Gerald Ford was President and signs a $2.3 billion loan to New York City to keep them from bankruptcy……..Bill Gates and Paul Allen start up a brand new company called Microsoft that would change the future of the entire world in the years ahead……..There was also the introduction of home video recorders and a battle brewing between VHS and Betamax……..Jimmy Hoffa, the ex teamsters boss disappears and never to be seen again……..Patti Hearst becomes one of America’s Most Wanted and arrested for armed robbery……..U.S. Apollo and Soviet Soyuz 9 spacecraft link up in space, Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts shake hands…….The Vietnam War ends as forces take Saigon and South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally.,,,,,,,The U.S. carries out Vietnam “Operation Babylift” bringing Vietnamese orphans to the U.S.

On the entertainment front among the big hit films in 1975 were Jaws, The Towering Inferno, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Funny Lady and The Godfather II. In pop music the big names included Aerosmith, David Bowie, Chicago, Elton John, Black Sabbath, Bruce Springsteen and The Eagles. For TV watchers among the most popular shows were All in the Family, The Bionic Woman, Sanford and Son, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley. A brand new show made its debut on NBC, Saturday Night Live. Among the celebrities we lost in 1975 were actress Susan Hayward, baseball’s Casey Stengel, writer Rod Serling, comedienne Moms Mabley, Aristotle Onassis and musician T-Bone Walker.

In the world of porn most everything was being filmed all over the New York area. New technology for the time gave films more diversity with an overall better look in cinematography. 1975 produced several top porn films, such as the one we take a look back at today, “The Story of Joanna”.

The Story of Joanna – AVC Films –  Director – Gerard Damiano – Cast – Terri Hall, Juliet Graham, Jamie Gillis, Zebedy Colt, John Busch, Steven Lark, John Koven, Roy Carlton.

While the theme of this film revolves around S&M, it is a true love story, and one of the very best from porn’s golden age. Directed and written by Gerard Damiano who gave the world “Deep Throat” and “The Devil and Miss Jones”, this masterpiece gives Damiano three of the very best to come out of the early golden age. The story line is one that will keep you watching every little move, listen to every word, watch every second of the sex scenes and keep you totally mesmerized right until the very end.

The film centers on Jason (Jamie Gillis) a very wealthy, womanizer who gets what he wants. He meets a debutante, Joanna (Terri Hall) and convinces her to come and be his maid in his castle like home. She is reluctant but something tells her to go ahead and accept his offer. It doesn’t take long after she becomes his maid that she is beginning to fall in love with him. She also sees the other side of him and is subjected to his every sexual whim which she gives into because of her love for him, However Jason tells Joanna that no matter what he cannot, and will not, love her back. She is convinced that she can change him. He also wants her to have sex with others and she complies with his wishes. For some women this would be degradation, but for Joanna it is now a way of life, her love for him is too strong and she is convinced that she can, and will, change him.

The sex scenes in the film have a lot of S&M attached and Ms. Hall handles the role and the sexual scenes extremely well. Her looks and body are the perfect fit for the role of Joanna. There is some tenderness in the sex scenes but they are quickly overtaken by the S&M acts that are performed. There is also one beautifully filmed scene where Jason is being serviced orally by his man servant Griffin (Zebedy Colt). It is done and filmed in such a way that it doesn’t come off as a shocking gay scene at all. The scene where Joanna takes on three men is another that has the lust and love factor as she does it to prove her undying love for Jason. Sexually there is nothing she won’t subject herself to trying to prove her love for him is real even though he continues to tell her he will never return the favor of true love. As the film comes to the end there is a very surprising, and not expected, twist to this story that I will not divulge, that explains the entire reasons for Jason’s control of Joanna. It is extremely well done.

The cinematography and lighting are exceptional. The performances by Gillis and Hall are extremely realistic, the dialogue delivered convincingly. Ms. Hall, a former premier ballet dancer with the Stuttgart Ballet Company, handles her role as Joanna to perfection, while Gillis, who was one of porn’s best actors, turns in another masterful performance. The rest of the cast handle their brief roles well making the characters come to life. An excellent addition to the overall, film is the use of some great classical music pieces to highlight many scenes that add to the overall eroticism.

This is available on DVD and still looks terrific for a film done more than forty years ago. I definitely recommend “The Story of Joanna” an exceptional piece of adult film making and a true classic from porn’s golden age.

Art Koch, National Features & DVD Editor, NightMoves Magazine and AAN

 

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Porn Classics Revisited – “Anna Obsessed” -1977

This week we travel back forty four years to 1977. For me, 1977 was the year we made the move from New Jersey to Florida and have never looked back. Let’s go back down memory lane and see what the year was like as far as news headlines, entertainment news and more.

As always, let’s first take look at the cost of living in 1977. The average income in the U.S. was $15,000 a year and the average cost of a brand new 3 bedroom home was $49,000. A brand new Chevy Nova was $3,900 and gas was only 65 cents a gallon. You could by a 5” portable TV for $150 and complete stereo system for $250. Women’s tunics were in fashion and only $11 and men’s leather slip on shoes just $14. Here are some of the 1977 news headlines……..New York City had a total blackout that lasted more than 24 hours…….. Jimmy Carter was elected President and the Trans Alaskan pipeline opened……….. The Medal of Freedom was awarded posthumously to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr………. The World Trade Center twin towers are completed………. The death of  rock and roll legend Elvis Presley at age 42 shocks the entire world……… It was the year when Apple introduced their first computers……Voyager I and Voyager II are launched unmanned to explore the outer solar system………The first commercial flight of the Concorde from the UK to New York takes place…….. A new diet program called Slim Fast comes on the market…….And who could forget the introduction of the Chia Pet that became the rage?

In the world of entertainment the big hit Hollywood films included Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Rocky, Annie Hall, Saturday Night Fever and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. In the world of music among the hit makers were The Eagles, Barbra Striesand, Stevie Wonder, The Bee Gees and Fleetwood Mac. As for TV’s big shows that year The Carol Burnett Show, McMillan and Wife, Columbo, Family Feud and Welcome Back Kotter were among them. Some of the celebrities we lost in 1977 would include comedian Groucho Marx, basketball coach Adolph Rupp, actress Joan Crawford, band leader Guy Lombardo, singer/actor Bing Crosby, comedian/film maker Charlie Chaplin and ”The King”, singer/actor Elvis Presley.

In the world of adult, porn films became much more popular as they continued to mesh good storylines and good acting with sex scenes. The majority of films were being shot in New York and regular movie theaters also began to show porn on a limited basis. There were some good adult films in 1977 such as the one we revisit today, “Anna Obsessed” .

Anna Obsessed – Arrow Productions – Director – Martin Martin – Cast – Constance Money, Annette Haven, Susan McBain, John Leslie, Jamie Gillis

This film was first released in 1976 but taken off the market shortly after because some of the subject matter was too strong, even for porn back then. It was re-released under “Anna Obsessed” and enjoyed considerable success and critical acclaim even though there were still some who were worried about the movie’s plot. Most fans may not remember this one, but porn aficionados certainly will. It is in the XRCO Hall of Fame and considered by many long time industry people as one of the best overall films of porn’s golden age.

It has a mainstream feel and look to it right from the opening scene on a rainy night. The story centers around Anna and David Carson ( Constance Money and John Leslie). As the rain comes down the camera goes into the bedroom and we see Anna and David having sex, but it becomes very obvious that she is not enjoying it. It is not the fault of David, who tries everything but nothing seems to work. This frigidity becomes physiological with Anna and she wants to find out the reasons for her problem before it ruins their marriage.

On the other hand, there is nothing wrong with David as he is having a lusty affair with his secretary (Susan McBain). She is giving him everything he is not getting at home. The secretary also has a fantasy man (Jamie Gillis) that appears here and there. As time goes on Anna meets Maggie (Annette Haven) at the train station and they become quick friends. As they part, Anna drops her purse, Maggie picks it up and will get in touch with her. Maggie wants more than friendship where Anna is concerned.

Then comes a scene in the film that changes everything about Anna. It is a very rough, tough, graphic rape scene that may not sit well with everyone, but it is a focal point of the film and who this rapist is that has been lurking throughout the film. I could continue and give you the rest and what happens and to who and how this turns out. However, it is too good a film to not see and discover for yourself.

There is a DVD version available but there have been major cuts made in it. If you can still play VHS and can find a VHS copy then you will have the entire uncut version. The five person cast was magnificent, the acting superb, the settings, cinematography, music, lighting were all that of a mainstream film. The direction of Martin Martin is simply spot on, fluid and realistic. “Anna Obsessed” is truly a golden classic to be viewed. While the main subject matter is a violent one, it is a reality of life and how it can change someone forever.

A few side notes: Leslie Bovee was originally slated to play Anna but because of the violence in the film she turned it down. Ms. Money was convinced to come back from her home in Alaska to take the role.

Like a mainstream film, this one had several weeks of prep and rehearsal and was shot over a 10 day period on real locations in New York City and Long Island. It  also had a large film crew numbering more than 30 people. It  supposedly had a budget of $100,000 an enormous sum for that time.

Rumors have circulated for years that the director, “Martin Martin” and crew were all from mainstream Hollywood and “moonlighting” doing porn. When you consider all the work and effort put into this film I tend to believe the rumor could well be the truth.

Art Koch, National Features & DVD Editor, NightMoves Magazine and AAN

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Porn Classics Revisited – “The Nicole Stanton Story – The Rise” – 1988

The decade of the 80’s were coming to a close so what do you remember from the year 1988? Let’s begin as we always do by taking a look back at the cost of living during that year.

The average annual income was $24,500 a year, the average price for a new 3 bedroom home was $91,000 and the average price for a new car was $10,500. As for costs, gas was creeping towards the $1.00 mark at 92 cents a gallon. You could get a gallon of milk for $1.89 and pork chops for just 40 cents a pound. A dozen eggs were only 65 cents and the cost of a movie ticket was $3.50. You could buy a brand new Ford Taurus for $9,900 and a Volkswagen Rabbit for $7,100. In some of the 1988 news headlines………The Hubble Space Telescope goes into operation to explore deep space and is still in full use today mapping our universe……… A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland……… Prozac is sold for the first time as an anti-depressant…… US Shuttle program resumes 2 1/2 years after the Challenger disaster…….The first major computer virus infects computers connected to the Internet…… The U.S. unveils the Stealth Bomber………The first laser eye surgery is performed in the U.S…….. George H. W. Bush defeats Michael Dukakis to become our new President.

In the world of entertainment among the big movies in 1988 were Rain Man, Die Hard, Big, A Fish Named Wanda and Beetlejuice. In music the hit makers included Michael Jackson, The Beach Boys, Guns n’ Roses and Gloria Estefan. For TV watchers some of the popular shows were Rosanne, Family Ties, The Cosby Show, Who’s the Boss and Murder, She Wrote. Among the celebrities we lost were singer Roy Orbison, actor/director John Houseman, Andy Gibb of the Bee Gees, basketball star Pistol Pete Maravich and porn star John Holmes.

In the porn industry there was a new look with the excessive big hair,  enhanced breasts and clean shaven privates from the ladies. Most productions were now all California based. There were some excellent films and performances in 1988 and such as the one we take a look back at today. It was a a two part film with part one released in 1988, both having the same cast in the same roles. That film was, “The Nicole Stanton Story – The Rise”.

The Nicole Stanton Story Part One – The Rise – Caballero Films – Director – Henri Pachard – Cast – Eva Allen, Annette Haven, Megan Leigh, Jade East, Kendal Marx, John Leslie, Randy West, Peter North, Joey Silvera, Scott Irish

Shot on 35mm film this is an erotic gem that deserves being a classic. Between the direction of Pachard, the cinematography of Alex De Renzy plus an all star cast this film shines not only visually, but story wise and sexually with some absolutely terrific chemistry between the actors. It is a well constructed story that keeps viewers interest simply because the film has a cast that can really act and deliver lines in very mainstream fashion. Then add in the sex scenes and this entire film leaves you wanting more. That is answered with part two, “The Nicole Stanton Story – To The Top”.

The plot of the film is built around Nicole (Eva Allen) who goes from a sleazy low class hooker to the wife of a rich, but lonely widower Gerald Stanton (John Leslie). How she meets Leslie and entices him into marrying her is quite a buildup. It comes by way of a play for pay scheme that is set up by Violet (Annette Haven). She meets the widower, comes to his lavish house for dinner and literally seduces him right in front of his daughter Marie (Megan Leigh) and her boyfriend Tom (Peter North). Nicole is a schemer and knows what she wants and almost has Gerald begging for her favors. She plays him until the time is right then marries him. It is from that point on that Gerald literally falls under her spell and she gets whatever she wants from her wealthy husband. Some of Gerald’s friends, especially Dan (Joey Silvera) think he’s making a mistake because they know what Nicole is after. Gerald is so infatuated with her he ignores their advice and marries Nicole. That sets the stage for her to begin her rise to the top and nothing, or no one is going to stop her. The film ends with the guarantee that there is even more conniving, back stabbing, and devious plans in Nicole’s future as well as plenty of sex. That all comes to fruition in the follow up film “The Nicole Stanton Story – To The Top” which we will cover in another edition of this series.

The story is sharply written, the cast brings a lot of depth to their characters. Leslie is outstanding as Gerald Stanton and plays his role with a total mainstream flair. Eva Allen, whose porn career was a short one, creates a very good Nicole and really comes into her own as the film builds. Randy West also does one of his better acting performances. The entire cast shows off excellent acting chops to create a very realistic production. The sex scenes have steam and sizzle and well captured by the camera with plenty of great visuals.

Under the direction of Hall of Famer Henri Pachard, this is a true masterpiece that offers solid entertainment start to finish. It is available of DVD as is the follow up, so enjoy some fantastic performances by a top notch cast, most of who are now residing in either the AVN or XRCO Halls of Fame, or both. This is definitely a classic to get hold of and enjoy.

Art Koch, National Features & DVD Editor, NightMoves Magazine and AAN

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