Truck Stop 1975

French Erotica

Overdubbed in English

Le Chat Qui Fume

MVD

R1 DVD

Reviewer: Bob Estreich

We have looked at some of Director Jean-Marie Pallardy’s films before as part of the Classics of French Erotica series. From a rather rough but promising start with My Body Burns his work was becoming very slick and professional, with lovely actresses, pretty good acting and a plot of sorts. Unfortunately this film loses the plot a little. Perhaps it’s more accurate to say that it just doesn’t have much of a plot so it is disjointed and has gaps you could drive a truck through. Although it is supposedly based on Homer’s Odyssey the connection is pretty loose.

The film opens promisingly enough with Jeff and Eugene driving through the desert. Jeff has taken a wrong turn somewhere and he is lost. He stops for a rest and sees a mirage of three attractive young ladies beckoning him with promises of sexual favours. He wanders off into the desert under their spell where he is found later by Eugene. Now they are both lost.

JoJo (with an improbable moustache) and John are truckdrivers. They find out about a local truckdrivers inn where the food is good and the waitresses are easy on the eye, or just easy anyway. The owner is Pamela, Eugene’s girlfriend. He has been lost in the desert now for some time and the truckers are all trying to take his place. Pamela is under a lot of pressure but she remains true to Eugene.

Eugene, meanwhile, is trapped in a desert oasis with a nubile young lady, Calypso, who is keeping him as a sex slave. He has everything he could want except Pamela. Finally she agrees to let him go, knowing he can never be hers. He and Jeff then must fight and bonk their way back to Pamela. Their truck is conveniently where they left it nearly a year ago and never seems to run out of fuel although Eugene and Jeff must steal food to keep going.

Pallardy made the film as a light comedy with erotic content, as for his previous films. In this one the comedy seems more forced, often dropping into farce and slapstick, and the sex scenes are more gratuitious. The women are lovely but that doesn’t save the film from being much less than it could have been.

Technically it is generally OK for an early film but there is an annoying glitch in the sound where the two channels drop back to mono occasionally. The extras include trailers for other Pallardy films, The Erotic Journal of Jean-Marie Pallardy, and another hundred photos of his leading ladies from his collection.

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