A Girl Like That (1979).txt
A Girl Like That (1979)
Director: Richard Mailer
Prolific porno director Richard Mailer cranked out this time-killer, wasting the talents of some top NYC actresses. Something Weird has reissued it on Vol. 122 of its Dragon Art Theatre series.
The screen credits are mainly fake (except for guest star Samantha Fox, who gets a misleading top billing). Perky Merle Michaels plays a submissive young wife who wants her husband Elton (clunky Bob Presley) to go back to college and get his medical degree instead of continuing in a dead end job.
She goes looking for work, without success, when streetwalker Marlene Willoughby convinces her to try the World's Oldest Profession. Merle is shy with her first trick and commits the faux pas of kissing the bloke, which ends up earning her an extra $50.
Back home hubby Elton finds the most rudimentary studies beyond his grasp and rues the day he ever quit his job. But Merle is bringing home plenty of money to support them.
Fed up with his homework, Elton goes looking for escape, which he finds in the arms of a Black hooker (Gloria Todd). She refers him to someone kinkier, and Sam Fox does a strong S&M routine with him, as a soulful sax wails the theme song from SUMMER OF '42 on the soundtrack incongruously.
Meanwhile, Merle is doing well as a prostie, and also has a strong lesbian scene with Willoughby. When Marlene invites her to help out with a customer who wants 3 girls at once, the film's extremely predictable conclusion is foisted on the audience.
The shill for Something Weird's video packaging claims this hoary twist is out of O. Henry, but that's absurd. Like hundreds of other porn films, the not-too-bright filmmakers assume their target audience is even dumber than they are, and throw in the same cornball switcheroo as intended irony to wrap up a movie. This one's no different.
Michaels has the ability to project that she's really enjoying having sex, and the feisty redhead tries valiantly to save the film. Willoughby and Fox are wasted, while blond-haired Bob Presley is as boring here as he was as the lucky guy who got to shtup twins in THE GIRLS OF GODIVA HIGH.
Merle's best trick is with Ron Hudd, who here (with thick mustache) alarmingly resembles current indie actor James Le Gros.
Film is technically tolerable, but frequent artificial dubbing in of fake moaning and groaning on the soundtrack is annoying.
Actresses
Gloria Todd [IR]
Marlene Willoughby
Merle Michaels
Samantha Fox
Actors
Ashley Moore
Bob Presley (as Michael Lawn)
Ron Hudd
Scene Breakdowns
Scene 1. Merle Michaels, Bob Presley
Scene 2. Merle Michaels, Ashley Moore
Scene 3. Merle Michaels, Bob Presley
Scene 4. Gloria Todd, Bob Presley
Scene 5. Samantha Fox, Bob Presley
Scene 6. Marlene Willoughby, Merle Michaels, Ron Hudd
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