From [email protected] Sun Mar 19 10:36:00 EST 1995 Article: 52747 of alt.sex.movies From: [email protected] (George Shaffer) Newsgroups: alt.sex.movies Subject: The Opening of Misty Beethoven (review) Date: 19 Mar 1995 15:20:33 GMT Organization: Express Access Online Communications, USA Lines: 101 Message-ID: <[email protected]> NNTP-Posting-Host: dca00332.slip.digex.net Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.11 Status: RO The Opening of Misty Beethoven is mentioned from time to time in a.s.m. Recently someone said they had just seen it and were quite disappointed because they had seen a cut version. I suspect that Misty is so tame by today's standards that the viewer assumed that it must have been cut. I saw Misty in a theater (twice) when it was released in the mid 70's. About 1985 I got an uncut video that runs 86 minutes. Misty was directed by Henry Paris and starred Constance Money, Jamie Gillis, Jacqueline Beudant. Terri Hal, Ras King, Gloria Leonard and several other names were listed in the credits. The Opening of Misty Beethoven is clearly an adult movie but it is distinctly different and it was just as different when it came out. It may be the only adult movie where the story is more important than the sex. It was a big budget movie with many scenes in quite a variety of locations and with many extras. There is some genuine humor in the dialogue. The acting is as good as it gets in an adult movie. Jamie Gillis is a sex doctor/author who finds Constance Money in a Paris theater. She is low class hooker who says "Listen, I do a straight fuck, I don't take it the mouth, I don't take in the ass." J.G. describes her as the "absolute nadir of passion, the most unexciting thing God has ever created, a sexual civil service worker." The story is about the challenge of turning C.M. into an erotic sensation so she can become the next "Goldenrod Girl". There are only four sex scenes that are five minutes or longer but there are dozens of short vignettes, mostly blowjobs (with some very mild facials) and pussy licking but also some novelties. In one, an airline stewardess raises her skirt to expose her bare ass. A male passenger inserts an aluminum cigar tube into her ass and the stewardess then walks away. The passenger's companion asks why he did that and he responds to smuggle a cigar past customs. The companion says that's not illegal and the passenger replies "but she doesn't know that." Misty has many surprising little twists. Most of Misty's training takes place at an ultra-modern New York apartment and a lavish French chateau. In both locations there are numerous shots of servants engaging in a variety of sexual activities and servicing their employers. These sexual vignettes are not the focus of the scene but simply background. Frequently while Jamie rambles on about various sex related topics, a female servant is sucking his dick. In most of these shots the participants are largely or fully clothed with only a fly unzipped or a skirt pulled up. The first extended sex scene with nudity is almost halfway into Misty. It starts with a brunette fondling then eating Jacqueline Beudant's pussy while Jamie watches as servants give him a blowjob. This is followed by brunette sucking then fucking Jamie (both naked) in several positions including RC. There is no question that there is penetration but between the lighting, poor angles (except RC) and pubic hair you really don't see much. The scene ends with Jamie cumming on the brunette's belly. This is part of Misty's training and there is a good bit of sexy talk. In the next scene Misty puts her lesson to use when she seduces a gay male art gallery owner when they are trapped in his gallery after the lights turned off. There is a fair amount of foreplay and then Misty blows and fucks the gallery owner. She is cowgirl and this the first clear, properly lit penetration shot. He is wearing an open robe but she never removes her sweater. He cums on is own belly. Following this and other of Misty's triumphs, there are captured "man on the street" conversations suggesting that Misty is the talk of the town. These are typically mixed with more training scenes. The next major scene is at a party and is a three way with Constance, Gloria Leonard and Ras King (?). Gloria licks C.M.s cunt and then they switch. Both are fully clothed with only raised skirts. R.K. joins in and all get naked in a tumble of body parts. C.M. puts on a dildo in a harness and then while G.L. blows R.K., C.M. lubes his ass. Then C.M. mounts R.K. from behind while he screws G.L. who is now on her back. The dildo penetration is shown but the angle is poor. There are no cum shots of any kind in this scene. Following this there is a very brief four way with J.G., J.B. and others with no detail shown. In the final sex scene of any duration, J.G. in on top of C.M. and there is the fourth (first was brief in an early scene) and final penetration shot (from a so-so angle). C.M. sits up and they continue face to face and there are more poorly lit close ups and confused body part shots. J.G. eats C.M. and sucks her nipples. At the end of the scene, cum drips off the screen and only the crew knows where it landed. Do I recommend this movie? Definitely not if you want lots of hot sex. I had not seen if for several years and did not get aroused watching it this time. There really isn't much more sex than I have described. On the other hand there is enough story and humor and the acting is good enough you may be able to convince yourself or someone else that you are watching this for other than the sake of watching sex. This may be a useful transition movie. If your partner isn't ready to watch sex for sex's sake this may help get them there and the scenes with Misty overcoming her aversion to oral sex may also be useful. The Opening of Misty Beethoven ran continuously for more than a year at the movie theater where I saw it so it obviously had an appeal that no other adult movie of its time (or since?) could match but its not the appeal of raw sex.