I saw THE FIRST TIME for the first time theatrically back when it was fresh and was underwhelmed. Revisiting it in DVD reissue, the faults are obvious.
Mimi Morgan looks beautiful, but gives a fairly blank performance as the heroine, introduced in the middle of a sex scene opposite Blair Harris being shot for a movie. Gimmick is that it's her first scene of explicit sex for the cameras, yet she handles it with a pro's experience and technique. Film in flashback shows what led her to this point, and it's an unfortunately uninteresting story.
She lives with Joey Silvera, doing his typical hissable creep routine, as a goof-off who refuses to get a job. They have a romantic sex scene notable for her wearing cutout black panties during sex, rather than getting naked.
Her boring life with Joey is uneventful. They attend a party for swingers thrown by Jack Wright, a really clean-cut young man who makes one wonder how he ever ended up in porn. While Joey is typically making out to a bongo beat with a cute young girl, Mimi gets it on with Wright.
There's a cryptic scene back home of Joey engineering a threesome featuring Mimi and loops star (memorably of the mixed-combo 14-INCH ROOT) Suzannah French, in which he injects Mimi with a huge hypodermic needle. This clumsy scene ruined the film for me, and led to a dull conclusion of her splitting from Joey and ending up on the film set which started the picture.
Fans, including myself, back in the days of Porno Chic, deserved more intricate and involving story lines than this throwaway one.
Mimi Morgan looks beautiful, but gives a fairly blank performance as the heroine, introduced in the middle of a sex scene opposite Blair Harris being shot for a movie. Gimmick is that it's her first scene of explicit sex for the cameras, yet she handles it with a pro's experience and technique. Film in flashback shows what led her to this point, and it's an unfortunately uninteresting story.
She lives with Joey Silvera, doing his typical hissable creep routine, as a goof-off who refuses to get a job. They have a romantic sex scene notable for her wearing cutout black panties during sex, rather than getting naked.
Her boring life with Joey is uneventful. They attend a party for swingers thrown by Jack Wright, a really clean-cut young man who makes one wonder how he ever ended up in porn. While Joey is typically making out to a bongo beat with a cute young girl, Mimi gets it on with Wright.
There's a cryptic scene back home of Joey engineering a threesome featuring Mimi and loops star (memorably of the mixed-combo 14-INCH ROOT) Suzannah French, in which he injects Mimi with a huge hypodermic needle. This clumsy scene ruined the film for me, and led to a dull conclusion of her splitting from Joey and ending up on the film set which started the picture.
Fans, including myself, back in the days of Porno Chic, deserved more intricate and involving story lines than this throwaway one.