Skin In The 70’s

Historic erotica

Secret Key Motion Pictures

All Region DVD

In the early 1970s the U.S. erotic movie was maturing. The quickie grindhouse compilations and one-reelers were giving way to better quality productions. Plots, film techniques and even acting skills were becoming more important. The sex content was still there but it was now integrated into the plot. It was also fairly innocent by today’s standards.

This compilation features four films on two DVDs from the period 1972 to 1975.

Blue Summer (1973) is the traditional college-students-on-a-road trip format with a few attractive girls and a couple of geeky guys. Now it would be called a “coming of age” movie.

Sometime Sweet Susan (1975) is an intense psychological drama with reduced sex content since this version was cut for an R rating from the original hardcore version. Susan (Shawn Harris) is in a mental institution where it soon becomes obvious to her psychologist (Harry Reems) that she has a second personality that comes to the fore in times of stress. Her alter ego is brash, sluttish and everything that Susan isn’t.

Summer School Teachers (1974) is another standard plotline regarding three female teachers who are hired to teach school classes for the usual bunch of oversexed retards (most of whom look a bit old to be students). It’s rather silly and unbelievable but well filmed and the women are attractive.

Teenage Divorce (1972) is a decidedly poor film where a group of young divorced people (and t hey are definitely not teenagers) join together in a small commune. The film achieved a certain cult status, not so much for its acting or plot as for the appearance of a quietly gay bonsai-loving George Takei, soon to reappear in Star Trek as Mr Sulu.

Skin In The 70s is an interesting range of films, covering as it does a range of the emerging themes that were later developed into major porn films by the U.S. industry.

The quality of the original films was variable so the quality of the transfers is patchy, but overall Secret Key has done a good job to reproduce these old films on DVD. One feature I liked was a small but detailed foldout brochure written by “The After Hours Collector” giving information on the films and their history.

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