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Marilyn Chambers and Tara Buckman?
BandSAboutMovies30 September 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Ernest G. Sauer - using the name Eric Drake here - also made Breakfast In Bed, another Marilyn Chambers-starring softcore film that shares the same writing team as this movie, Don Shiffrin and Gary P. Conner. Sauer, Shiffrin and Chambers also teamed for Bedtime Stories, New York Nights, Bedtime Fantasies, Bikini Bistro, Fantasies Vol. 1 (Debbie Rochon is in that), Desire (Amy Lynn Baxter is also in that), Little Shop of Erotica (which has witchcraft and Veronica Hart), Naked Fairy Tales (again with Hart and 80s adult actress Raven) and Sex and the Girl Next Door. Sauer and Shiffrin also made Broadcast Bombshells (with Baxter and Rochon), Affairs of the Heart (which has New York Blue's Robin Byrd in it), Web of Desire (an early cybersex-themed softcore movie with Baxter), while Sauer on his own made Marilyn Chambers' All Nude Peep Show, Incredible Edible Fantasies (Chambers and Juli Ashton from Night Calls is in that), Lusty Busty Fantasies (Chambers and Rochon), All My Best, and the Chambers-less The Naked Detective and Beauty School (which has Sylvia Kristel and Hart).

As you can see, the 80s and 90s were a big era for Marilyn Chambers to do movies that could play on Cinemax, Showtime and USA Up All Night. These movies often have similar casts and crew, like John Altamura, who was also the Toxic Avenger in the second and third movies. He's also in Party Girls, the Chambers movie that gets reused in every one of her movies or so it seems.

In this movie, ex-lovers Jane (Tara Buckman) and Jim (Michael Rose) have reunited to look for the author (Chambers) of an erotic diary. This would be the part where the fog comes in and the sax solo begins.

Seriously, not a single person has written about this movie on IMDB or Letterboxd, it's not available on any DVD or blu ray that I can find, it's not streaming and it took a long time to even find a video to watch. Why would I spend so much time on it? Because, well, Tara Buckman was also in Night Killer and a host of Italian movies, so I'm fascinated by her. She was in a ton of TV shows to start her career (Buck Rogers, Quincy, Hart to Hart), the TV movie Death Car On the Freeway and then her big break in The Cannonball Run where she played Jill Rivers and drove the Lamborghini Countach with Marcie Thatcher (Adrienne Barbeau). She's also in Silent Night, Deadly Night, Never Too Young to Die, Xtro II: The Second Encounter and two Joe D'Amato movies, Blue Angel Cafe and High Finance Woman. She was one of the last contract players Universal had, appearing in their TV series in the 70s and also having a regular role in the second season of Lobo. She finished up her acting career after making the Nico Mastorakis-directed Terminal Exposure, which has a cast that I love: John Vernon, Joe Estevez, and Hope Marie Carlton (Taryn from the Sidaris movies).

The cinematographer for this movie had quite the career. Larry Revene had more than a hundred camera operator and cinematographer credits, including Barbara Broadcast, Hot T-Shirts, The Devil In Miss Jones Part II, Hollywood Hot Tubs, Doom Asylum, Deep Throat II, Young Nurses In Love, Slammer Girls, New York's Finest, Bedroom Eyes II, the Joe D'Amato movie The Crawlers and Charlton Heston Presents the Bible. He also directed Wanda Whips Wall Street.
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