classix comment's Alpha Blue Archives Movie Reviews (8)
Release date: 2/20/2006
Reviewed on: 11/19/2008
Studio: Alpha Blue Archives
Starring: Duke Johnson, Lisa Baker, Bruce Darcy, Linda Hoffman, Dan Timens, Bill Murphy, Shorty Roberts, Stitch Umbas, Coke Cain, Tony Rizzi, Black Orchid
Directed by: Gail Palmer
Review brief: Alpha Blue Archives has given this very obscure racially themed roughie much better treatment than one would expect from the company.
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Release date: 5/23/2007
Reviewed on: 4/2/2008
Studio: Alpha Blue Archives
Starring: Margo, Sandy Dempsey, Rick Cassidy, Brigitte Maier, Keith Erickson, Linda York, Al Poe, Franklin Anthony, Antoinette Maynard, Maggie Williams, Charles Orlando, Richard Mailer, Rainbow Robbins, Bob Silvani, Tasty Freeze, Jon Roy Jones, Tony Deluca, David Downing, Niva Ruschell, Black Sid, Diane Dixon, Toni Telo, Olivia Marno, Frank Hallick, Will Boston, Gina Bedell, Paul Castano, Monica Walters, Martin Tynan, Lt. Marx
Directed by: Richard Mailer, David Worth, Kurt Baker
Review brief: Tongue, the most "important" film on this disc happens to be the first. Tongue is definitely not your run of the mill LA triple-Xer. Even from its opening minutes its clear its director, credited only as "K.P.," is not the average smut maker and his/her film isn't going to be the average smut film. In fact, there is no real sex for the first 25 minutes.
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Release date: 1/26/2006
Reviewed on: 3/7/2008
Studio: Alpha Blue Archives
Starring: Marlene Willoughby, Jennifer Jordan, Tara Chung
Directed by: Roberta Findlay
Review brief: Roberta Findlay was one of a few female directors who worked on hardcore films. Although her films are nothing exceptional, her unique style and passion for violence make her films unique in the annals of 70s hardcore.
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Release date: 1/26/2006
Reviewed on: 1/23/2008
Studio: Alpha Blue Archives
Directed by: Howard Ziehm
Review brief: While not interesting cinematicly, these early works by by future cult director Howard Ziehm are crucial viewing as examples of some of the earliest narrative hardcore cinema.
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Release date: 1/19/2006
Reviewed on: 1/15/2007
Studio: Alpha Blue Archives
Starring: William Margold, Hillary Scott, Ann Webster, Gena Lee, Ted Roter
Directed by: Ted Roter
Review brief: Peter Balakoff (aka Ted Roter) was one of many former exploitation film directors turned hardcore film directors to make ends meat. Some did well while others floundered. Roter is somewhere in the middle. Although his films are frequently poorly shot and feature less than pleasing production values, he makes up for these minor faults through his surprisingly smart scripts and above average acting from his cast of relative unknowns. Here we have two of his least seen films, Hollywood She-Wolves and Paul, Lisa, And Caroline. Although She Wolves is nothing more than a run of the mill porn, PLC is a surprisingly insightful look at a menage-a-trois lifestyle. Roter's stock actress Gena Lee is Caroline, just married to Paul (played handsomely by director Roter) who decide to engage in swinging with Paul's sometimes fling Lisa. Roter creates strong, realistic characters with real problems which are handled with maturity and class. Gena Lee gives another wonderful performance proving that she certainly was one of the finest thespians in the whole of the industry during the late 70s.
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Release date: 1/19/2006
Reviewed on: 1/15/2007
Studio: Alpha Blue Archives
Starring: Rhonda Jo Petty, Debbie Truelove
Directed by: Ray Dennis Steckler
Review brief: This will be the first of my reviews of the "Cult 70s Porno Directors" series from ABA. This collection of three films by true schlock filmmaker Ray Dennis Steckler is a truly awful grouping of terrible films. They're pretty much all the same film in that none of them has a plot and for some reason all involve roller skates. Go figure. Steckler, who also made horror themed porn under the moniker Sven Christian, was never looked at as even a good director outside of the hardcore industry and thus the reduction of his already miniscule budgets and the inclusion of hardcore sex into his films makes them even more tedious as entertainment. I suppose the sex scenes could be described as "erotic" but that would have to be from a very jaded perspective. There is a lot of sex though if that makes this package any more enticing. Overall the films are of OK AV quality. All from VHS tapes with Indian Lady faring best, but all being watchable enough to be able to make out the "action." All also appear to be uncut (though I couldn't image such crap being cut anyway).
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Release date: 9/25/2004
Reviewed on: 1/15/2007
Studio: Alpha Blue Archives
Starring: Paul Thomas, Joey Silvera, Amber Hunt, Kristine Heller, Long Jean Silver, Lori Blue, China Leigh
Directed by: Alex deRenzy
Review brief: 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).
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Release date: 9/18/2003
Reviewed on: 1/15/2007
Studio: Alpha Blue Archives
Starring: Jamie Gillis, Terri Hall, Gerard Damiano, Zebedy Colt, Juliet Graham, Steven Lark, John Busche, John Koven, Roy Carlton
Directed by: Gerard Damiano
Review brief: Tis a shame that great film like this are treated like dirt by the companies that release them. Gerard Damiano's powerful and majestically shot masterpiece inspired by the great French Novel "The Story Of O" is one of the finest hardcore films EVER made by one of the genre's finest directors. Jamie Gillis is Jason, a wealthy socialite who discovers he is dying of a rare (although unnamed) desease. He thus "adopts" a young woman, Joanna (Teri Hall) to keep him company during his final days. She however is unaware of his ailments. Their relationship quickly turns from one of short term lovers to a violent bondage filled endurance test for poor Joanna who is tormented in just about every way possible. Slowly, as their profane relationship continues to develop, Jason becomes weaker and weaker due to his mysterious ailment while Joanna grows stronger and stronger through her torments... Damiano's great strengths as a director are present in every aspect of this masterpiece.
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