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That Lucky Stiff

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Starlets:

Candida Royale
Kandi Barbour
Kelly Nichols
Merle Michaels
Robin Byrd
Samantha Fox
Verri Knotty
Katy Keene
Erica Richardson

Category	Blast from the Past (classic title)
Director	Chuck Vincent
Themes	straight sex, oral
Production or Street Date	1980 date of production, released 1980, 09.06.05 (dvd version)
Released By	Video-X-Pix
Available Formats	VHS & DVD (dvd version reviewed)
Running Time	87 minutes
Source and Price Paid	DVD courtesy of Video-X-Pix
Box Cover Quote	"What would you do with three million bucks? Could you be That Lucky Stiff?"

Synopsis

A classic plotted porn feature about a man who by banking error, gets three million dollars and travels Europe having wacky sexual adventures. The movie has a strong sense of nostalgia to it and will bring hours of laughs to anybody who watches it. It resembles the kind of porn you get on Showtime After Dark, funny, campy and sexy at the same time. Something you can watch with your significant other.

What's Hot

The plot, the music, the settings, the lighting are all excellent. The movie has a classic vintage feel to it right down to the quality of the film.

The sex feels natural all the time with out the purely for film raunch we often get today.

The girls all have a genuine girl next door feel like you could really meet one of these ladies walking down the street.

Every scene had me laughing from the absurd situations and the poor acting.

Ron Jeremy is in it and he’s hilarious. This movie also contains an entertaining interview with Ron.

What's Not

It’s relatively short and all of the sex scenes could do with being two to three times as long as they were.

Several of the cum shots happen off screen.

Many of the scenes feel incomplete because they only have oral or skip too quickly to the end. Most scenes contain only a single position.

There is a little too much plot considering that the sex can be disappointing at times.

Play By Play

Below is a detailed description of each scene:

Scene One - Samantha Fox & Candida and one guy

Sex Checklist: group sex, oral sex, straight sex, tease, hand job, rim job

The scene starts off very slowly in a massage parlor. Scene two is actually happening at the same time so the scene cuts back and forth The acting is actually very entertaining as the two girls gradually work on emptying his pockets. The start off with a simple massage but as their clothing is removed and the girl move from giving him a hand job to oral his tab continues growing and growing. Both girls keep the dialogue coming the entire time and the over the top moaning really adds to the scene.

The girls start off the with a steamy double oral scene with the girls continually “fighting” over who gets to suck his cock. They work well together and again the dialogue is a good turn on. The girls get down onto all fours for the sex, side by side doggy style. The girls get into a few interesting positions, the best being Samantha on her back licking at the man’s balls as he fucks Candida. Even though it’s obviously faked the energy of her supposed rim job is really good. The cum shot is decent, especially for the era with Samantha taking a facial that he takes great pleasure in spreading with his cock.

Even the ending of the scene is funny with the girls adding up how much his free massage cost him in the end. Upwards of one hundred dollars and the look on his face was priceless.

Scene One Rating: 8.77
Starlet appearance: 9.50, Starlet attitude and personality: 9.00 (Samantha)
Starlet appearance: 8.00, Starlet attitude and personality: 8.75 (Candida)
Sexual Heat: 8.90, Raincoat appeal: 8.50

Scene Two - Kandi & one guy

Sex Checklist: oral sex

This scene is happens simultaneously with the first scene, the camera switching back and forth between them. Kandi only wastes a few seconds getting down on her knees for a blow job. They only show Kandi a few times throughout the scene, it really shouldn’t be considered a separate scene. It is purely oral. The cumshot is non existent, focused on the studs face as he moans and cutting away without ever moving back to Kandi.

Scene Two Rating: 7.71
Starlet appearance: 8.75, Starlet attitude and personality: 8.00, Sexual Heat: 7.50, Raincoat appeal: 7.00

Scene Three - unknown starlet & one guy

Sex Checklist: oral sex

This scene happens in the middle of a bar during a conversation. The main character is discussing what he should do about the banking error that took him from zero to hero and a girl just walks up and starts sucking his friend’s dick. She does a good job of slurping up and down on his cock. The lighting actually works well at the end because the partially hidden open mouth facial looks dirtier because of it. The mood set by the scene is great. You never even get a really good look at the girl. The idea that some strange girl would just walk up and suck your dick is great.

Scene Three Rating: 8.81
Starlet appearance: 8.50, Starlet attitude and personality: 9.00, Sexual Heat: 9.00, Raincoat appeal: 8.75

Scene Four - Robin and two guys (Randy West & Ron Jeremy)

Sex checklist: oral sex, straight sex, group, fingercuff

I’m a young man so the very first thing that stands out in this scene is Ron Jeremy. I’ve never seen the legend at work before. The build up to the scene is Randy checking into the hotel and ordering a hooker.

When the scene cuts away Robin is getting fucked doggy style by Ron Jeremy and sucking Randy’s cock. The music is pretty good but the absence of moans or any real sounds at all from the stars is kind of. Ron cums all over the girl’s leg ending the sex. The scene itself ends with Ron and Robin tying Randy down for some S&M style sex and instead robbing him.

Scene Four Rating: 8.45
Starlet appearance: 8.50, Starlet attitude and personality: 8.30, Sexual Heat: 8.25, Raincoat appeal: 8.75

Scene Five - Erica Richardson with one guy (Randy West)

Sex checklist: oral sex

When Randy’s car stops in the middle of the country side he pulls up to a farm where he finds Erica. He tried to explain his dilemma but she quickly undresses and gets to work sucking his dick. The camera work is all here, the look on her face, her energy. Erica’s oral skills are great and when she mounts him it makes it one of the few “complete” scenes of the movie. The lighting is very natural, with the only light coming in through a window so often the pair are moving in and out of partial shadows as they fuck. Erica pulls his cock out and lets him cum over her backside.

The humorous conclusion has Erica spotting her father and screaming rape. At gunpoint they get a lot of his money. When he runs away the pair laughs at the stupid American.

Scene Five Rating: 9.12
Starlet appearance: 8.75, Starlet attitude and personality: 9.50, Sexual Heat: 9.25, Raincoat appeal: 9.00

Scene Six - Verri Knotty & Kati Keene and one guy (Randy West)

Sex checklist: threesome, rim job

In his next adventure Randy manages to get himself mistaken for somebody important and held hostage. When he refuses to pay the ransom on his life Katy and Veri threaten to kill him. Then agree to fuck his brains out before killing him.

All three of them quickly undress starting up the scene. Like in the earlier threesome part of what makes this scene so great is the way the girls interact with each other. The dialogue keeps the scene moving right along. Seeing the one of the girls move around back for a rim job was great two. He ends the scene by cumming on the brunette’s rump.

He finally pays the girls at the end of the scene ending with a laugh.

Scene Six Rating: 9.12
Starlet appearance: 8.50, Starlet attitude and personality: 9.25 (Brunette)
Starlet appearance: 9.00, Starlet attitude and personality: 9.50 (Black Hair)
Sexual Heat: 9.50, Raincoat appeal: 9.00

Scene Seven - Merle Michaels with one guy (Randy West)

Sex checklist: oral sex, straight sex

Merle and Randy start off in a dimly lit bedroom with beautiful music playing and Randy kissing all over Merle’s body. A classic lovemaking scene and from the beginning it is a work of art. When he goes down on her its not raunchy at all, just real sex.

The chosen position this time is spooning and Merle looks incredible in the pale moon light. The lighting and the music elevate the scene’s quality from good to great. You miss the cumshot again with the poor lighting and cameras but it’s not necessary. This was meant to be a thing of beauty not raw sex.

Scene Seven Rating: 9.31
Starlet appearance: 9.50, Starlet attitude and personality: 9.00, Sexual Heat: 9.25, Raincoat appeal: 9.50

Scene Eight - Kelly Nichols with one guy (Randy West)

Sex checklist: oral sex, straight sex

The final scene of the movie is Randy finally getting lucky by meeting Kelly. They have a brief romantic montage that ends with them running nude through the country side and starting to make out.

Like all the scenes in this movie Kelly’s scene takes full advantage of the environments natural lighting to add a special element you don’t often see. While the shadows do conceal a lot of the action they have an enhancing effect on the scene over all.

The pair exchange oral favors before moving onto missionary style sex. The music is kinda distracting during this scene but the sex is hot enough that you usually don’t notice. You can’t see the cumshot at all though, you’re only vaguely aware due to an abnormally bad patch of shadows and low video quality.

Scene Eight Rating: 8.43
Starlet appearance: 8.00, Starlet attitude and personality: 8.50, Sexual Heat: 8.75, Raincoat appeal: 8.50

Everything Else

There's a slide show here, but like most slide shows, I feel it is pointless. The classic trailers were definitely interesting though. It’s almost embarrassing to look back and realize how much more creative the porn industry used to be. You don’t see non-descript bed rooms or motel rooms in any of them. Each location is interesting in its own right and the plots seem to be thin but real. Last but not least, the Ron Jeremy interview is hilarious and must be watched.

Last Word & Final Tally

They don’t make porn like this any more and that’s a genuine shame. The story is paper thin but amusing throughout. The sex scenes have a very natural feel to them though they are way to short in most cases. The music is very well done and the lighting is always natural which makes for some very interesting shots in and out of the shadows.

New (Experimental) SRR Rating Method:

Sexual Content Ratings (averaged & weighted 2x): 8.72
Average of all scenes listed above.

Production Ratings (weighted 1x): 10.00
Dialog/Story/Script: 10.00, Costumes/Clothing: 10.00, Location: 10.00

Technical Ratings (weighted 1x): 8.25
Camerawork: 8.75, Video Quality: 7.00, Audio Quality: 8.75, DVD Extras: 8.50

Overall Rating: 8.92 out of 10.00

-- Renald

Second Opinion?

Shortbus says this film is "pretty typical for the era" and praised Samantha Fox's scene, especially the "good facial". Overall 3 out of 5 stars. (Rancho Carne)

Review Date: 12.26.05, Edited and posted 01.26.06

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