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The Opening of Misty Beethoven
(1976)
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First Flight Attendant
(as Janet Baldwin)
Pilot's Wife
(as Cynthia Gardner)
Final Maid with Seymour
(as Marlene Parker)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Flight Attendant on Phone
(uncredited)
Servant with Slicked Hair
(uncredited)
Brothel Customer - Striped Shirt
(uncredited)
Prostitute with Striped-Shirt Guy
(uncredited)
Geraldine's Male Prostitute
(uncredited)
NYC Gossip Without Beard
(uncredited)
Servant Shaking Head
(uncredited)
Makeup Artist in Blue
(uncredited)
Unhappy Guy on Plane
(uncredited)
Servant with Orange Carnation
(uncredited)
First Guy in Limousine
(uncredited)
Servant with Geraldine
(uncredited)
Shortest Maid /
Various Audience Members
(uncredited)
Back-Row Blonde at Ballet
(uncredited)
Brunette Maid with Geraldine
(uncredited)
Orally Serviced Guy on Plane /
Theater Patron
(uncredited)
(as Robert Rochester) (photography)
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The year 1976 should have been a landmark year in moviemaking, should have been a year in which Hollywood stopped being hypocritical about love scenes and went explicit, instead of fading out just as things start to get interesting. The Best Picture nominees for 1976 were All the President’s Men, Bound for Glory, Network, Taxi Driver, and the winner, Rocky. It was also the year of Carrie, Marathon Man, The Omen (Hollywood being OK with graphic violence and decapitation), The Pink Panther Strikes Again, The Shootist (John Wayne’s final film), Silver Streak, Swashbuckler, and, a hint of what could have been the future of films, Stephen Nathan’s hilarious The First Nudie Musical. (If only there had been a second, and a third!) Not mentioned at the Academy Awards that year, but should have been, was Radley Metzger’s groundbreaking The Opening of Misty Beethoven, an explicit adaptation of the Pygmalion legend—think My Fair Lady without the songs. Instead of a lowly flower girl being trained to be a lady by a professor of speech, a low-class streetwalker is transformed by a sex researcher into an internationally acclaimed love goddess (his cardinal rule: “Never let the fact that they are doing it wrong stop you from doing it right”; good advice in any endeavor). If American society was not so hung-up against the unambiguous depiction of carnality, Misty Beethoven could well have led the way toward public acceptance of “adult” films as every bit as artful and worth seeing as mainstream movies. (Maybe it will be yet, but much farther into the future.) Misty had just about everything an expensive Hollywood film had: a good (and often funny) script, fine cinematography and editing (even incorporating the flash-forward technique), and good acting, especially from Jamie Gillis and Jacqueline Beaudant, who had an easy naturalness on screen in this her only film. Misty was played by Constance Money, who went on to make a few more such films. The supporting cast, such as the airline stewardesses, were perfectly cast. The music score features, in the scene where Misty attends a ballet about 22 minutes into the film, the best use of The William Tell Overture since The Lone Ranger. Misty became the standard for such films, a high artistic bar worth striving for, but, alas, few adult films came close. (Three that come to mind are Barbara Broadcast (also from Radley Metzger, though it was nearly plotless), Sexcapades, and Wanda Whips Wall Street.) Perhaps it was difficult to find people willing to do the explicit scenes and still have enough acting talent to read lines convincingly. There are some: Georgina Spelvin comes to mind, and Marilyn Chambers, Kay Parker, Jamie Gillis, and Ron Jeremy, to note but a few, but not enough of them, and not enough really entertaining scripts to pair them with, and they all had to contend with the small-minded forces of moral rectitude always dragging filmmakers and stars into court, making them persecuted First Amendment pioneers, barred from “legitimate” films due to the moral stigma attached to adult films. Someday, there should be statues of them in public parks. A few of the women, at least, have been immortalized in song. A ribald 1974 Off-Broadway musical titled Let My People Come, has a song titled, “Linda, Georgina, Marilyn and Me.” (The actresses referred to being Lovelace, Spelvin and Chambers.) Unfortunately, the score, though recorded, has never made it to CD. Eventually, and all too soon, this trend toward classy adult films with plots and characters fell to the wayside in favor of cheaper amateur (and plotless) videos, as depicted in the mainstream Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore film, Boogie Nights, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. (The very successful book and film, 50 Shades of Grey was, to my mind, just an R-rated rip-off of an earlier and more explicit Jamie Gillis film titled The Story of Joanna.) That was the Golden Age of adult films, 1976, and The Opening of Misty Beethoven ranks as the best and classiest of them. (Radley Metzger, aka Henry Paris, died in 2017 at the age of 88. Perhaps someday he’ll be enshrined in the Directors Guild as a true pioneer filmmaker.)
'The Opening of Misty Beethoven' (which I have just watched for the first time) is considered by some (or many) to be the greatest adults-only movie ever made. I'd have to watch a LOT more to confidently agree or disagree but I can say that I liked it very much! There is a story (which doesn't come across as a necessary evil) and would be extremely watchable in either the soft or hard core version, both of which are included on this Blu-ray. It's really quite funny, too, with plenty of jokes and sight gags, all of which the performers deliver with ease and aplomb ...except for one lady in one of the aeroplane scenes, but she's pretty and it's only one line, hehe. The music is appropriately whimsical and sexy by turns, and I now want the soundtrack! This Blu-ray release has clearly been a labour of love for the producers, from the careful restoration and transfer of the movie to the packaging. If you are interested in this movie or this period in adults-only entertainment, I think you will not regret buying this Blu-ray. The movie itself is fully worth the money, but there are also some interesting and informative special features (many in high definition). Of course, your primary reason for buying will be to enjoy watching some really good looking people making out! ;)
It was good even though it was from the mid 70's. It gave a peak of the world back then into the porno world. Best part, it was Blu-Ray.
This is likely the best porn movie you will ever see. There is an interesting story. There is actual acting. The actors are attractive. The sex scenes are well done. Wonderful camera work. Interesting sets and filmed on location at several great cities of the world. This was filmed on film and not video. Great couples choice.
Movie was as I expected. However I did not realize it was going to be in Blu-ray and my normal DVD player will not play it so I had to buy a new player. May have been my fault that I didn’t read the ad correctly.
Got this for the movie cinema scene where she looks like a done-up Milla Jovovich. Didn't know it was shot in Europe too though. I was thinking that perhaps it was because it was in Europe that there were so many little-packaged actors in the movie, but now I'm realizing that it was probably so that the main actor guy would appear to be more impressive. Couldn't get past the garden scene where she's trying to get multiple guys off simultaneously. It was just too creepy.
The Opening of Misty Beethoven is widely recognised as the greatest porno film of all time, at least among those who care about the film aspects and not just the sex. It has an entertaining plot suitable for a porno, wonderful sets, a witty script gorgeous actors and actresses and is topped off by a great soundtrack. Not to forget about the sex: two scenes are really hot and the others all add to the overall experience. Distribipix's Blu-ray package truly does justice to the film: excellent transfer and superb special features including two versions of the film (hard and soft) with two separate commentaries. Fans are well rewarded and anyone new to the movie will be instantly enraptured by it.
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Inspired by My Fair Lady, this interpretation of Pygmalion is about a sexologist who attempts to transform Misty from a hooker into sensuous instrument of passion. Misty's big test is to seduce a homosexual artist, but during her training the relationship between Misty and her doctor grows.
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"What's the biggest difference between New York and Rome?" "There aren't as many Italians in Rome!"
Women Film Editors #24: Bonnie Karrin
While revisiting Radley Metzger's enduring classic of sophisticated hardcore comedy - known as the porn Pygmalion - with the Metzger/Ashley West commentary track courtesy of Distribpix, I found two things to be true: first, that it's an extremely well edited film, and second, that I'm not actually sure if the editor listed in the opening credits, Bonnie Karrin, is indeed the person most responsible for the impressive craftsmanship.
While I didn't take extensive handwritten notes, as I did for Barbara Broadcast back in February, it stuck out that Metzger constantly referred to a "first assistant…
so if you add songs to pygmalion you win best picture at the oscars...but if you add sloppy toppy you don't even get nominated??!!!
A big blind-spot for me. And it's funny! Maybe the only version of Pygmalion that doesn't actively frustrate me, because it's so light on its feet, actually casts a slime-ball equal to the shittiness of the Higgins character, and kinda sells the romance with a final scene that legitimately flips the central power dynamic and reframes Higgins/Gillis' actions as more playful than they initially appeared. Also - great production design.
no joke, an early match-cut between a money shot in a film shown in a theatre and an old dude in the audience getting a handjob blew my mind at how obvious yet great it was
there’s something quite cutting in the loneliness of its main characters and just how much sex is going in that is just ‘background decoration’, and the film knows this as well. maybe the most purposefully mind-numbing of these films I’ve seen
"Don't let the fact that they are doing it wrong stop you from doing it right."
On today's date in 1976, Radley Metzger's sexual satire The Opening of Misty Beethoven premiered in New York. This pornographic reimagining of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (or as one IMDb reviewer describes it, " My Fair Lady with a money shot") benefits from a witty script and a high budget, including elegant sets in European locations, expensive-looking costumes and beautiful cinematography by Paul Glickman, who had mainstream success by filming Larry Cohen's God Told Me To, Special Effects and The Stuff. Constance Money shows genuine acting ability as the title character, an inexperienced prostitute transformed into the talk of the town among the hypersexual elite,…
The glitzy, sparkling 70s fashion, retro futuristic furnishings, classy score, and lush cinematography are all wonderful - everything else, kind of boring.
I also watched a different film starring Jamie Gillis last night which isn't on lb (not surprisingly), Shaun Costello's WATER POWER which, you know, I can't recommend to any sane person since it's about a Travis Bickle-esque crazy person who stumbles around NY looking for "whores to cleanse" by forcefully giving them enemas. No, REALLY!!! And it's based on a real-life crime committed by the "Enema Bandit" aka Michael H. Kenyon. I can't make this stuff up. Sorry to make this review all about WATER POWER but it's honestly strangely compelling and disgusting and Jamie Gillis is great in it. It at least held my attention since I was either grossed-out or wondering what weird creepy shit Gillis would do next.
[Written prior to Letterboxd approving select adult titles, hence the opening phrase; I originally stuck this in a comment on another review.]
Letterboxd doesn't allow porn, so here's where I'll stick a few quick words in very mild praise of The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976, Radley Metzger using the pseudonym Henry Paris), which I watched on Valentine's Day. Of little non-prurient interest once it truly gets down to business, but the first half, with its Pygmalion -derived storyline, plays more like a rollicking comedy that happens to frequently feature unsimulated blowjobs as punchlines. (There are some decent G-rated zingers, too.
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