On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 10:48:18 -0400, Nobody <nobody@biteme.com> wrote:
>If you care, it was also posted to a.b.sleazemovies on 4/19/2015 as an
>MKV file. I haven't downloaded it so cannot attest to its quality.
>This is from the txt file that accompanied it:
>
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>The Violation of Claudia (1977)
>
>Actresses:
>Crystal Sync
>Clea Carson (as Justine Fletcher)
>Long Jean Silver (as Long Jeanie Silvers)
>Sharon Mitchell
>Actors:
>Don Peterson
>Roger Caine (as Jack Jeffries)
>Jamie Gillis
>Victor Hines
>Waldo Short
>
>Director: Bill Lustig
>
>Filesize: 1240.1 MB | Type: MKV | Duration: 01:03:33 | Video: 720x480
>Audio Track 1: AC3 224Kbps 48KHz Stereo English, Track 2 (commentary
>with Bill Lustig and Nicolas Winding Refn): MP3 48KHz Stereo
>Encoded with no filters. Source from DVD. Restored from original
>negatives.
>Equal to a Vinegar Syndrome release in terms of video quality.
>
>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076887/
>
>A tennis instructor leads a wealthy but neglected housewife into the
>world of prostitution.
>
>(IMDB User Review)
>Cutting his teeth trying to break into the movie-making business, Bill
>Lustig had performed all kinds of technical duties on adult film sets,
>usually for "Uncle" Peter Savage, most notably his notorious 1977
>SYBIL send-up SYLVIA. In an attempt to put together his first solo
>project, ideally in the horror or similar exploitation territory, he
>found his only funding forthcoming from the foolproof fornication film
>field. Figuring this offered at least an opportunity to create
>something that might pique some more "respectable" producer's interest
>for future reference, he set about adapting Luis Bunuel's 1967
>art-house classic BELLE DE JOUR to fit the porno market, one year
>before the late Gary Graver's ultimate undraped update thereof 'V':
>THE HOT ONE with Annette Haven standing in for her "real world"
>counterpart Catherine Deneuve.
>
>For his more frugally funded version, dramatically christened THE
>VIOLATION OF CLAUDIA, Bill secured the services of a then still up 'n
>coming Sharon Mitchell who was to become an industry icon for much
>more than her thespian and titillatory talents, co-founding the now
>sadly defunct Adult Industry Medical Center screening performers for
>HIV prior to shoots. Although still feeling her way as an actress, no
>pun intended, Mitch acquits herself adequately as the bored trophy
>wife of much older businessman Don Peterson a/k/a "Frank Adams",
>Veronica Hart's married lover from Chuck Vincent's 1982 landmark
>ROOMMATES. What cannot be argued however is just how spectacular she
>looks here, much softer and more feminine than her increasingly butch
>appearance once she hit her professional stride by the turn of the
>decade.
>
>Whiling away her idle days taking tennis lessons from studly pro Kip
>(a purely professional turn by an already stalwart Jamie Gillis),
>Claudia's initially turned off when he suggests she joins his stable
>of well off wenches turning tricks for a cheap thrill and some
>spending cash their husbands never need to know about. One back rub
>with unexpected liberties taken later, she warms to the idea however.
>Experiencing a newfound carnal confidence, she picks up a hunky high
>school kid (one shot Victor Hines) for some fireplace frolicking,
>given the full romance treatment by Lustig with sensual slow motion
>and soft hazy cinematography courtesy of Robert Lindsay who would wind
>up shooting both Bill's breakout blockbuster MANIAC and Doris
>Wishman's head-scratching A NIGHT TO DISMEMBER ! Up until this point,
>the movie has been top grade couples porn with a proper screenplay and
>lofty production values. About halfway through, the limitations of its
>$15,000 budget start being felt though. Even a director like Lustig
>can only stretch a buck so far. Extensively "auditioned" by fellow
>floozy Crystal Sync, unforgettable star of Roberta Findlay's masterful
>THE TIFFANY MINX, Claudia finds that her walk on the wild side
>ultimately encompasses all of one client, a skittish senator memorably
>portrayed by portly character actor "Waldo Short" a/k/a David Lipman
>who went on to become a regular on TV's LAW & ORDER. Her next trick,
>an outrageous drag queen (one Gandi Sanders) with a penchant for pee
>play, sends her scurrying for the exit...and an unpleasant surprise
>awaiting her at the homestead.
>
>At little over an hour, CLAUDIA never wears out her welcome but would
>clearly have benefited of at least one additional erotic encounter.
>Still, what there is proved plenty to pull in the punters at New
>York's legendary World Theater. Scoring a sizable surplus on its
>modest investment, the movie made sure that Lustig could continue in
>cinema, albeit still in the seedy underbelly with his decidedly
>underwhelming HOT HONEY, a doing it for dough programmer that never
>even tries to rise above its station.
>
>With CLAUDIA on the other hand, Bill seriously sought to create
>genuine eroticism, making good on its tag-line of being 'a Hardcore
>EMMANUELLE'. The opening fantasy of Claudia spreading out on an ornate
>sofa as she's being pleasured by French maids Clea Carson (billed as
>"Justine Fletcher") and "Long" Jean Silver illustrates this uppity
>approach intended to draw in a better class of porno patron. To this
>end, the director also made sure the score didn't scream "cheesy sex
>flick" by hiring the talents of underrated Michael Karp who wrote
>several well-known TV show theme tunes as well as the music for T&A
>dramedy THE YUM YUM GIRLS, notable for featuring an extremely youthful
>Tanya Roberts among its lineup of lovelies.
>
>
>
>---------------------------------------------------->Thanks Nobody
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