Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Jail Bait (1976)


















It's been a while I had watched a film from Carter Stevens and this one was in my unwatched pile of film for quite some time already so it was its time. The movie is about Ron Baker (Wade Nichols) who is caught in a bad wedding with June (Sharon Mitchell) and who finds solace with his mistress (Eva Henderson). Which suits him until the day he discovers that he had an attraction for his young niece (Jenny Baxter) and he started drinking more and more after her departure for Italy. During one of his evenings of drinking he sees for the first time Tina (Tina Lynn) a young babysitter at his neighbor's home. From there all goes downhill for Ron  since she is only 16 years old ...

As usual it is an exellent Carter Stevens' production who runs the same way a conventional film would do (except that there is more sex of course). The film rests entirely on the shoulders of Wade Nichols and Tina Lynn since they had the only important roles in this film (most of the distribution is non-entity) and they acquit themselves from this task quite well. Of course this is not a surprise for Nicholls as he demonstrated on numerous occasions that he was a good actor, but this is much more surprising  from Tina Lynn since it was her only role (Stevens really had a special gift for finding talent). The story despite the fact that it may seem predictable isn't since Ron is not the only one with a scandalous secret.

This one is currently unavailable on DVD (it was released on VHS by Command Video a long time ago), but After Hour Cinema works currently on a second  volume in their Carter Stevens Director Series so maybe this one will be in it.

2 comments:

  1. Wow, this sounds really fantastic. I don't think I've seen any of Carter Stevens' work, but I'm definitely going to look into it!

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  2. I haven't watch one of his film I didn't like yet. I was deceived by Wicked Schoolgirls but it was more a case of expecting too much. If you have a chance try one of the set released by After Hour Cinema (one of them didn't had hardcore movies in it, but Punk Rock is a great film). There always the Alpha Blue Archives set, don't expect too much quality from them but they can do the job while waiting for a real released.

    I can't wait to know wich one will be in the next set (even if I know already that Lickity Split won't be, since they haven't find good enough materials yet).

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