HOW TO SUCCEED WITH SEX 1970 BERT I GORDON ZACK TAYLOR EROTIC SELF-HELP COMEDY DVD-R!

“WOULD you like to start here, in the center of the room, and progress to the bed in steps of growing eroticism?” the sweet-limbed young call-girl unaffectedly asks. Clean-cut young Jack agrees. And together they begin the climax that leads to the conclusion of “How to Succeed with Sex,” an occasionally pleasant dirty movie that opened yesterday at the Penthouse and Pacific East theaters.Principally, one will wish to see this movie for its women, who are lovely. But one may also listen to its dialogue, which is ironic, literate, and occasionally even funny.The title derives from a book that Jack (Zack Taylor) buys to help him seduce his fiancée, Sandy (Mary Jane Carpenter), a most resolute and unlikely virgin, and that speaks to him, in a gravelly voice, throughout the movie. He succeeds part of the time and fails part of the time, and fantasizes like crazy all off the time.Often the fantasies get in the way of success or failure, and then “How to Succeed with Sex” declines into a nervous classy photography approach to its subject that seems designed chiefly to keep you from seeing enough. But once in a while the fantasies suggest a real point of view that is more complicated and more sophisticated than the film’s premises might have led you to expect.An amphibious film, at least half of “How to Succeed with Sex” takes place in swimming pools and at marinas and on a sailboat off the California coast. In this context the cult of the body, especially the Southern California body, seems a reasonable religion — for which Victoria Bond and Bambi Allen and Luanne Roberts and all the nameless beauties who bounce through Jack’s dreams are healthy prophets.But on the other side, Shawn Devereaux, a cocktail lounge pick-up, and the only girl in the cast who looks old enough to have graduated high school, parodies pornography consciously, and with a civilized wickedness that indicates she is all together, body and soul.

-NY TIMES

color, mono, fullscreen, 73 minutes. DVD-R comes packaged as shown in color DVD case, wrapped in plastic!