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Summary: Classic 1970s softcore porn
Review: "Young Lady Chatterley" is a goofy, smarmy, tongue-in-cheek classic of late 1970's soft-core porn. The movie stars a pre-breast-augmentation Harlee McBride (a.k.a. Mrs. Richard Belzer, Detective John Munch on NBC cop shows) as Cynthia Chatterley, the niece of Lady Constance Chatterley (the main character of the D.H. Lawrence book). After Cynthia inherits her late aunt's English estate, she leaves the big city to explore it for herself. Once there, she has sex with just about everything that moves... the chambermaids, a hitchhiker, visitors to her house, all culminating in a large gangbang-type orgy centered around a Victorian costume party.The movie is tongue-in-cheek throughout. None of the actors (including Peter Ratray as the gardener with whom Cynthia conducts her frequent sexual liaisons) seem to be taking the material seriously, but this adds to the overall ambience of the film. Producer-Director Alan Roberts (who also helmed the lesser 1985 sequel, "Young Lady Chatterley II") keeps the camera away from possible revealing shots, and except for one early sex scene (in a flashback sequence), there is no frontal nudity. Overall, in the world of great 70's soft-core porn, this ranks as a classic and guilty pleasure. Although tomboyish, Harlee McBride exudes raw sexuality and eroticism, especially in her strongest scene, in which she has graphic intercourse with a hitchhiker while riding in the back of a car. Unlike the 1985 sequel, McBride still has natural breasts and a non surgically-altered body, so we can believe she's really an heiress to a beautiful, sprawling English estate, and just not another porn star. I recommend watching the unrated version, which is available on this DVD. Undoubtedly, many of you will remember seeing this film and its sequel on American cable TV networks in the late 1980's, which was when I first saw it. If so, this DVD will bring back memories of late-night classic porn on HBO and other networks. The DVD has a nostalgic feel to it, and the presentation is nice. Overall, this is a good, sexy movie for connoisseurs of the genre.
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Summary: An ode to Showtime, the cable network of young men's dreams
Review: Back in 1981, my parents finally relented and purchased Showtime with our local cable company. Though many of the features were major motion pictures or filmed stage productions, after 11PM the spicier portions of the daily menu were trotted out for late night viewing. "Young Lady Chatterly" is the story of a young woman who inherits an estate from her aunt. There's your plot. She arrives, has sex, walks the grounds, has sex, has a dinner party, has sex; it's quite an exhausting day. How many nights did I need to go downstairs "to use the bathroom", surreptiously creeping into the television room, turning the volume as low as possible while still hearing the throbbing moans of Cynthia Chatterly, listening for the thunderous plod of my mother's feet on the stairs? MANY
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Summary: Dissapointing Re-Edit
Review: During a recent discussion of erotic movies (not to be confused with Erotica) with a friend, we decided that this movie was one of our favorites and decided to order it. Having seen it only twice myself when it appeared on HBO in the late seventies, it remained in my memory as very erotic though not terribly well acted. The cut available (R rated) from this site is not the same cut I, nor my friend saw when viewed shortly after it's original release and I'm reasonably sure that even in it's raw, formative stages, HBO wasn't airing an X-rated version. If you're looking for the steamy, sexy version you remember, this aint it!
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Summary: Great movie!!
Review: Funny movie with a plot and a happy ending!
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Summary: Good sex scenes.
Review: Harley McBride is every young man's fantasy. Especially in the bathtub scene with her maid.
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Summary: Classic Softcore
Review: I am a little irritated. I wrote a lenghty review of this months ago and it was never posted. Now they want me to do another one. Ok, but this is abbreviated and isn't as informative. This is classic, top quality, 70's softcore. This is probably the best softcore flick of all time. Good plot, nice sets, some flesh, but all tastefully done. Harlee McBride is supersexy in a "real" sort of way. She looks like someone you would know, but she is really cute. Sort "naturally hot." Plus, she is a pretty good actress, too. Harlee is an orphan who in her late 20's realizes she has inherited a huge British estate in the middle of nowhere from a long lost relative. The problem is, a huge amount of taxes are owed on it that she cannot afford. Before selling it, she decides to visit it for the weekend. She, well, let's put it this way, "gets to know" a whole lot of people who work on the estate, mostly men, but a few ladies as well. She falls in love with the place and vows not to sell it. What is she to do? Don't worry, our screen heroine figures out a way to keep her estate (and her gardner). Nicely done! That guy who plays her rich fiance is hot stuff if you're into older, dark haired men, but it is Miss McBride who shines through. You are rooting for her at the end. It's silly, but fun. The DVD has all the more explicit scenes that apparently the VHS version is missing.
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Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS VIDEO
Review: I made the sad mistake of doing so and I was heartily disappointed. All of the scenes are severely edited which makes this video worthless. The version originally shown on cable all those years ago probably has a rating of NC-17 or NR and that's the one you want.
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Summary: great movie, excellent plot , not mindless entretainment
Review: i really enjoyed the movie. the plot was decent, and the premise is good. p.s. i am looking for the sequel, help !!!
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Summary: Young Lady Chatterly
Review: I recently ordered this video... . It was the same movie that I watched 20 years ago on cable TV. It is a great soft core movie. Great sex scenes and lots of them. This is a good movie thank god for the fast forward button though the story sucks..............
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Summary: A good collector's item!
Review: I saw this movie when it used to come on cable. This was a very good movie. Harlee McBride can be rated up there with Sylvia Kristel (Emmanuelle), although Kristel has several sequels. McBride only has one sequel, which is very rare to find but is worth it. The sequel includes Adam West, remember Batman of 1966???
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