8/10
Little Miss Innocent
1 June 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Directed by Pittsburgh native Chris Warfield and written by E. E. Patchen - potentially from a draft of Death Game that was making the rounds at that time - Little Miss Innocent begins when Carol (Sandy Dempsey, who appeared in more than sixty adult films and used just as many names; there's a theory that she died in a boating accident at the age of 26 that has never been proved correct) and Judy (Terri Johnson, who was also in Flesh Gordon) are picked up by record producer Rick (John Alderman, Superstition) in his fancy convertible.

Judy is a virgin, a fact that Rick didn't know. Seconds after he takes her, Carol shows up and makes love to him. It's nearly any straight man's fantasy, except that the girls are insatiable and while that may make a great title for a Marilyn Chambers movie, it's another thing for a man in his late 40s to live up to.

Rick expects the girls to leave but they end up moving right in, which seems fine if strange at first, but Carol also has a mean streak that starts showing up. All Rick wants to do is sleep on the couch, his Penthouse Forum letter seemingly out of control as the biological humor of men being out of their prime as they age being displayed throughout. The girls' carnal needs have sapped him of his ability to work and even stay awake, almost vampiric in their need for continual gratification.

With camera work by Ray Dennis Steckler and second unit direction by George "Buck" Flower, this is a curiosity that goes beyond just being IMDB trivia fodder. Despite the girls blackmailing him and claiming to be underaged, Rick is suffering under the male delusion that he is the alpha in this situation, continually bedding two attractive women. Yet again, what should be a dream is shown to be a nightmare, as that very alpha nature is sapped. Every orgasm needs a refractory period that takes longer and longer for him, an issue the girls never need to deal with. Performing under the pressure of being arrested can't be good for the libido either.

Warfield didn't fall out of love with this story. In 1987, he'd remake the film under the same title, keep the same song and much of the script, only going all out with the hardcore - and then some for some straight and uptight men - with Eric Edwards playing Rick, Summer Rose as Judy and Sheri St. Claire as Carol.
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