Vista Valley P.T.A. (NuTech) Review

Reviewed by jayo  on  8/21/2005

Vaguely based on the popular song of the time, "Harper Valley PTA," this old-school movie-with-a-plot is about a new teacher (Jessie St. James) and the students and parents of Vista Valley High School.

Forget the plot, because like most porn movies it's just a method of setting scenes and it's pretty worthless. The real attraction of this movie is its stars, which reads like a who's who of porn circa 1980. Jessie St. James, Dorothy LeMay (credited on screen as Lexmax), Juliett Anderson, Kay Parker (on screen as Kay Taylor) Jamie Gillis and John Leslie are all in their prime.

By modern standards the scenes are often missing something--the camera doesn't get every little thing the way it does now, and a lot of scenes seem shorter than one might expect. Almost everyone gets only one sex-scene in the movie, including Kay and Juliett, who would become two of porn's biggest stars, and Jessie St. James, the star of the movie.

The DVD itself is no-frills. It divides the movie into six chapters, so expect a lot of fast-forwarding if you want to see something in particular. I'm not a DVD producer so I don't know--but it really cost that much more to make a dozen or so well-placed chapters than to make six? Come on.

Trailers are on the flip-side. It appears this publisher specializes in Japanese Hentai. So if they sell any other classic American porn movies--you won't find it in the trailers.

If there's a particular scene you want, or if you are a fan of one of the stars, then this DVD may be worth your while if you can't find it on a compilation. But as a movie in general, it's not very good at all.