Long Jeanne Silver (Alpha Blue) Review

Reviewed by classix comment  on  1/15/2007

Alex DeRenzy produced more than a few good films during the 1970s but he also produced more than a few awful ones. This one falls into the second category. Simply a dumb way to make money off a gimmick. Long Jeanne Silver was a New York runaway who made her acting debut in Shaun Costello's Waterpower in 1976. She then came to San Francisco landing on The Mitchell Brother's doorstep. The Mitchells picked her up and put her in live sex shows. Soon washed up, DeRenzy decided to use her in one of his hardcore quickies and shot a standard vignette film with her peculiarity as the centerpiece. Now for those of you who don't know where Long Jeanne got her name, well...She doesn't have one of her legs (yes, you read that right) and uses the stump the same way gay boys use their arms!

So Long Jeanne Silver (the film) is just that, consisting of scene after scene of Long Jeanne sticking her long john in lots of girls (and even one boy in by far the film's funniest scene). To explain my negative review of this supposed cult classic, it's not that I'm a prude but this film is so boring! Maybe some people can sit through 70 minutes of dumb boring leg stump sex but not me. DeRenzy, who certainly proved himself a great director through such titles as Femmes DeSade, Pornography In Denmark and Pretty Peaches, just doesn't pull it off in this one.

The DVD release of this dumb movie is just about as bad as the film itself. Mastered off a VHS transfer from a beat up 16mm print is a bit of an eyesore. The film is at least uncut and Alpha Blue has done an OK job with extras which consist of some photo galleries and some additional (and boring) stump scenes round out the overall so-so package.

Worth buying if it’s your thing.

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