Dressing Lesson

‘Dressing Lesson’ is available from Janus WorldWide at (http://www.janusworldwide.com/store/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=333) and from CalStar.  It is also available on several VOD sites.

‘Dressing Lesson’ is a 22-minute long movie released by Janus.  I’m not certain of the year it was released but I believe that it was 1982 since it was not included on list of Janus films published in Janus 8 (the second issue of 1982) but it was included in a list in Janus 15 (the second last issue of 1982).  It was re-released as a ‘CalStar Quickie’ in 2008.  

A review on one site that I follow (https://spankingfilmreview.com/2012/08/15/dressing-lesson-roue/) names the actress playing the schoolgirl as “Priscilla Eastwood” (it also identifies the producer as Roue).   I have never found any other source that identifies the schoolgirl as Priscilla Eastwood nor have I found any mention of anyone called Priscilla Eastwood appearing in any Janus movie or magazine.  There was a very well-known Janus model named Priscilla Waters who appeared in several issues of the magazine.  Her first appearance was in Janus 23 which was published in the middle of 1983.  There are no closeup facial shots of the school girl in ‘Dressing Lesson’ but, from what I can see, I don’t think she is Priscilla Waters.

The story is quite simple.  A father has received a letter about his daughter (who is already naked when he confronts her) from her headmistress informing him that she chronically late for school and he decides that she simply must be taught a lesson.  He gives her a single stroke of the cane and then tells her to dress quickly.  When she takes longer than he thinks should be required he gives her another stroke and then tells her to undress.  Again, that takes longer than he thinks it should and another stroke follows.  This process is repeated over and over with only minor variations.  At one point, the father decides that a spanking is required so he takes her OTK.  Then the dressing-caning-undressing-caning cycle resume and continues for the rest of the movie.

There is a certain novelty to this story and I don’t recall ever seeing anything else quite like it.  Unfortunately, that novel plot idea is worked to death and I had grown tired of the repetition well before the end.  There is a final completely gratuitous, 30-second long close up crotch shot of the schoolgirl face up on her bed massaging her sore bottom.  For me, this added nothing and it could have been deleted.

This movie was made shortly after ‘Warden’s End’ (the subject of my last post) and comparing the two movies makes it obvious just how much an experienced and talented film maker like George Harrison-Marks brings to the process.  This movie, much like the early Spanking for Pleasure movie ‘Painful Promotion’ that was made only about a year later (see my post from November 25, 2018) suffers from very poor camera work.  Shots are poorly composed and framed and heads are frequently ‘cut off’.  I have a digital copy of the movie obtained directly from Janus but the print has suffered from age.  The color has faded and there is noise in both the video and sound that probably results from poor storage of the VHS tape that was digitized.  These problems are to be

expected but they aggravate the other technical flaws.

Warden's End

‘Warden’s End’ is available from Janus WorldWide at http://www.janusworldwide.com/store/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=170 (for some reason the drop down menu titled movies on the Janus WorldWide website says “There are no products in this category” but you can find the movies if you search through Google).  Photos from ‘Warden’s End’ appeared in  New Janus issue 6, the last issue of Janus published in 1981.

‘Warden’s End’ is a 9-minute long film made by George Harrison-Marks for Janus in 1981.  I’ve seen many reports that say ‘Warden’s End’ was GHM’s last movie for Janus but the reports are often qualified.  For example, the “About Janus” page on the Spanking for Pleasure website says “His last major film for Janus was ‘Warden’s End’ in 1981, which was shot in and around 40 Old Compton Street” which seems to suggest that there may have been some later ‘minor films’ (http://shop.spankingforpleasure.com/pages/about-janus).  However, there is no doubt that GHM would leave Janus soon after making ‘Warden’s End’ to found his own magazine called Kane.  (I will note that a photostory on GHM's movie 'Thoughts of Girlhood Chastisement' appeared in issue 7 of Janus, which was his last issue as editor, so it is possible that movie was made later.)

The film features British adult actress Linzi Drew (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linzi_Drew), who would make more films for Janus after GHM left, most notably ‘The Disciplinarian’ and she would also work for Harrison-Mark’s later film venture called Kane International.  The movie was filmed along Old Compton Street in the Soho district of the City of Westminster (London) and inside the Janus shop which was then located at 40 Old Compton Street.

The film opens with Drew, who plays a Traffic Warden (Meter Maid would have been the American term at the time) walking along the street checking cars.  A taxi pulls up in front of the Janus shop and an unidentified man starts carrying bundles of magazines into the shop.  The taxi driver leaves the car before Drew arrives and finds the taxi illegally parked outside the shop.  She starts to write a ticket when the man comes up of the shop for the next bundle of magazines and confronts her.

Eventually Drew asks about the shop and the two go inside where Drew starts looking at the magazines.  After she makes a dismissive comment about the photos the man asks her if she could do better and invites her to audition.  She agrees with very little discussion and has her remove her dress and bend over a stool for a hand spanking.  She finds it easy at first but the spanking becomes harder with time.  When she begins to object the man suggests continuing with eh cane and he does.  Finally, she decides this is too much and she abandons any thought of becoming a spanking actress and returns to her duties as a Traffic Warden.  The movie then ends with a typical GHM touch.

As a spanking movie, ‘Warden’s End’ is unremarkable but it’s a very well-made movie and its unusual story line makes it stand out from the many other spanking movies that recycle plots time after time after time.  It is also a ‘must see’ for anyone interested in the history of the genre.

Some Harrison-Marks Films

I have been working through the Janus films over the past few weeks and my plan is to continue that with a review of Wardens End, the last of the Janus films made by George Harrison-Marks, in the next few days.  At the same time, I’ve been researching GHM’s Kane International films that he made while editing Kane Magazine and I’ve been doing some work on the Roue & Blushes films on the side.  In the course of this work I’ve run across some films that look like GHM films but they don’t seem to have made by any of these companies.  I hoping that someone who looks at this blog might be able to give me some help.

The first of these are a couple of films that are identified as “Harrison-Marks Films”.  I found several references that say he was making for other producers during his time with Janus and I’m wondering if he might also have been making films for himself as well.  The two I have found are “Trouble with a Female Offspring” and “Trouble with the Accused” and these are obviously part of a series as you can see below.

 

 

In both of these films the title card is followed by a card that reads “A Harrison-Marks Film”.

Update:  I eventually identified these two films as the second and thirds parts of the Kane International movie 'Treble Trouble' (Kane catalogue number 44) made about 1991.  It was the subject of a photostory in Kane magazine no. 56.

 

I’ve also been trying to find out who produced “The Cane and Mr. Able”.  I’ve found references that say GHM made this film at about the same time he made “Mandy Bait”; the first Kane International movie but “The Cane and Mr. Able” doesn’t appear in the Kane International catalogue.

Another outlier is “The Spanking Game #2”.  This film is clearly identified as “Directed by George Harrison-Marks” but there is no indication of who produced or distributed the movie and, again, it doesn’t appear in the Kane International catalogue.  The title certainly suggests that there was a “The Spanking Game #1” but I’ve haven’t found any film by that name.

My last question relates to a film called “The Incident at Effinton Girls School”.  The only copy I’ve ever found is very poor and I can’t read much of the text on the opening cards but I’ve read a number of chat room and message board posts that described it as a GHM film and it certainly has some of his common traits.

Can anyone tell me anything about any of these films?  I would appreciate any information that you might be able to give me.