Yes, this obscure but richly oddball vintage porn movie has a show-stopping moment when the hero's dad appears mid-way through the story and is announced as "Harry Potter". Yes friends, there is nothing new under the sun.
But beyond this amusing coincidence, SKY PILOT is wacky enough, mixing PTSD with porn as the title figure is a former Vietnam War pilot whose memories of bombing Hanoi linger on and hurt his love life. The actor playing Paul Potter is unidentified, and other than having a big dick he is unimpressive.
He and his Buddy are introduced cruising a bar where he picks up Sandy Dempsey, leaving her girl friend Kathy high and dry. They hump at his pad and cryptic inter-cuts of stock footage of fighter planes in action are inserted - a recurring image throughout the movie. The second time they get together to f*ck he treats her roughly. In a flashback we see him in a romantic idyll with busty German-accented star Nora Wieternik, who asks him about his life, giving us some exposition about service in Vietnam. Their humping features interesting camera angles and a surprisingly avant-garde jazz score, with Nora looking here a lot like current XXX star Daphne Rosen.
Some effective filler occurs when Paul and his buddy pick up femme hitchhikers in their van and hump Orita De Chadwick and another girl in back. Orita gives them blow jobs as more mainstream jazz plays, sounding a lot like Freddie Hubbard soloing on trumpet.
Dempsey returns as his lover and asks the crucial question: "Why did you quit flying, Paul?". Turns out he was court-martialed for being too gung ho when bombing Hai Phong Harbor and earlier having bombed a Chinese railway. Paul is supposedly an ex-screenwriter, but the screenwriter of SKY PILOT certainly was hankering to get out of porn and write something more worthwhile.
There's a trip to Las Vegas and a strange flashback of the great early porn star Andy Bellamy (wearing her trademark dog collar) unconvincingly speaking pidgin English and cast as a Eurasian hooker giving Paul a happy ending massage during r&r back in Vietnam. The wallflower Kathy is back paired with Paul in a Vegas foursome, and elicits a fountain of cum from him after 69-ing, cuing a ridiculous directorial injection of a jet fighter starting a bombing run juxtaposed against the money shot.
Finale has Dempsey angry when she finds out that her pal Kathy has humped her main man Paul. She packs her handbag to leave, but Paul turns weepy and says "I love you". Sandy has made enough porn to know b.s. when she hears it, so she tells him off and movie ends with both of them sorry as she leaves for good, plus more bombing imagery for us dullards in the audience to ram home whatever point the pornographers were trying to make.
Yet another example where rarity 40-plus years later makes up for the crappiness of a XXX film.
But beyond this amusing coincidence, SKY PILOT is wacky enough, mixing PTSD with porn as the title figure is a former Vietnam War pilot whose memories of bombing Hanoi linger on and hurt his love life. The actor playing Paul Potter is unidentified, and other than having a big dick he is unimpressive.
He and his Buddy are introduced cruising a bar where he picks up Sandy Dempsey, leaving her girl friend Kathy high and dry. They hump at his pad and cryptic inter-cuts of stock footage of fighter planes in action are inserted - a recurring image throughout the movie. The second time they get together to f*ck he treats her roughly. In a flashback we see him in a romantic idyll with busty German-accented star Nora Wieternik, who asks him about his life, giving us some exposition about service in Vietnam. Their humping features interesting camera angles and a surprisingly avant-garde jazz score, with Nora looking here a lot like current XXX star Daphne Rosen.
Some effective filler occurs when Paul and his buddy pick up femme hitchhikers in their van and hump Orita De Chadwick and another girl in back. Orita gives them blow jobs as more mainstream jazz plays, sounding a lot like Freddie Hubbard soloing on trumpet.
Dempsey returns as his lover and asks the crucial question: "Why did you quit flying, Paul?". Turns out he was court-martialed for being too gung ho when bombing Hai Phong Harbor and earlier having bombed a Chinese railway. Paul is supposedly an ex-screenwriter, but the screenwriter of SKY PILOT certainly was hankering to get out of porn and write something more worthwhile.
There's a trip to Las Vegas and a strange flashback of the great early porn star Andy Bellamy (wearing her trademark dog collar) unconvincingly speaking pidgin English and cast as a Eurasian hooker giving Paul a happy ending massage during r&r back in Vietnam. The wallflower Kathy is back paired with Paul in a Vegas foursome, and elicits a fountain of cum from him after 69-ing, cuing a ridiculous directorial injection of a jet fighter starting a bombing run juxtaposed against the money shot.
Finale has Dempsey angry when she finds out that her pal Kathy has humped her main man Paul. She packs her handbag to leave, but Paul turns weepy and says "I love you". Sandy has made enough porn to know b.s. when she hears it, so she tells him off and movie ends with both of them sorry as she leaves for good, plus more bombing imagery for us dullards in the audience to ram home whatever point the pornographers were trying to make.
Yet another example where rarity 40-plus years later makes up for the crappiness of a XXX film.