Maid for Tears and The Maid Upstairs

‘Maid for Tears’ and ‘The Maid Upstairs’ are two movies made by George Harrison-Marks (GHM) at the same time in about 1987.  ‘Maid for Tears’ is 55:30 long and ‘The Maid Upstairs’ is 27:25 long.  They are described as a series but they really don’t have much in common beyond a common premise so I don’t understand why they weren’t treated as two separate movies.  The two movies were released by Kane International (catalogue numbers 1 and 6) and both were the subject of a photostory in issue number 36 of Kane magazine.  I don’t believe that these two movies were ever released by CalStar in the US in any form and, to the best of my knowledge, these two movies are not currently available from any distributor or ‘video on demand’ service.  These two movies are unrelated to the 1992 Kane movie ‘Maids in Uniform’ (KI catalogue number 38) which featured one of the first appearances by Alison Payne in a spanking movie.

The movie opens with a businessman (Eric) and his wife Frederica, their butler Benson (to describe him as ‘elderly’ would be an understatement) and Kate, the maid, preparing for a dinner party.  Frederica is a large busted, dark haired woman who kneels on her dressing table chair while outing on her makeup just to make sure that we get a good look at all of her assets.  Finally, Sir Larry (Larry Barnes) and his wife Fiona arrive.  Dinner begins about 10 minutes into the movie but it is soon interrupted by the sound of a tray falling on the floor.  Benson investigates and finds that the maid has dropped the dinner on the floor so, after phoning for pizza, he begins to berate her and soon takes her over his knee.

Eventually Frederica goes to find out what’s keeping dinner and, when she finds Benson spanking the maid, she puts a stop to it and sends him back to the kitchen.  She returns to tell her husband what has happened, tripping over more than a few lines in the process, and he immediately concludes that it is ‘all her fault’ and worries what it will do to his reputation.   Eric asks Larry for advice and the two men go off to discuss the situation over cigars.  As the two men talk Larry mentions that there seems to be some tension between Eric and his younger wife.  Larry tells Eric that he has reached an agreement with his own younger wife; he provides her with a standard of certain living and in return she agrees to abide by the rules of his household.  Larry says that, when his wife tries to deviate from that agreement, he deals with the matter using the ‘punishment pack’ which he just happens to have in the trunk of his car and it goes on to explain its use.

Kate enters with a heavy belt obviously askew in a manner that suggests future possibilities (which, unfortunately, are never explored).  Eric offers her a few pounds for her silence about her treatment by Benson but Kate asks for more.  After she leaves, Larry warns Eric of potential future problems but he a solution that would require the cooperation of their wives. 

Frederica and Fiona are talking upstairs and Frederica is complaining about how her husband treats her.  She goes on to tell Fiona that she shouldn’t tolerate Larry’s treatment of her either but she refuses that advice just as Larry walks in.  He commends her for her response and soon begins to describe his plans for Kate but the scene cuts to Frederica calling Kate to ask her to bring a bottle of wine to the bedroom.

The two women are trying on lingerie when Kate arrives with the wine and the soon suggest that she tries on one of the items.  She models it over her clothes but Frederica and Fiona decide that isn’t suffice and they start to undress her.  Before long all three are naked around on the bed and the three start to spank each other.  Fiona admits that Larry spanks her but Frederica says that her husband is too much of a wimp to do that.

At the prearranged time (about the 35-minute mark of the movie) the two men walk in and ‘catch them in the act’.  They are, of course, outraged and it turns out that this hadn’t actually been the plan.  Kate is given a few pounds and sent away to visit her family while the two wives are told to dress and come downstairs when they are finished since Larry has something that he wants to discuss with them ‘at great length’.

When they come down Larry send Fiona out to get the punishment pack from the car and she soon returns with it.  While Fiona is away Larry explains to Frederica what he is planning.  Once Fiona returns Larry begins to demonstrate the techniques with Frederica and Eric tries them out on Fiona.  Larry begins with a hand spanking, followed by a heavy strap, a flogger and finally the cane.  The instruments appear to be applied with more than usual force and the reactions are quite believable (and quite possibly real).

‘Maid for Tears’ ends with Larry alone on camera with a copy of Kane magazine issue 35 explaining that Kate left service and was replaced by Judy who appears in the sequel ‘The Maid Upstairs’ which begins with a solo sequence with Larry where he largely repeats his final soliloquy from the previous movie then it abruptly cuts to a flashback.

Kate has been fired and replaced by Judy and Larry has been left to train her while Eric and Frederica go on holiday to Spain.  Judy is a heavy set, busty blonde who displays an insolent attitude in her first scene.  Larry decides that a spanking is in order and, after some argument, she submits.  This leads to a 4-minute long scene of a spanking entirely filmed with the camera closely focused on her bare backside which quickly becomes boring.  Afterward Larry sends her to change into a red teddy and then set the dining room table for a dinner for 6.  He gives her a 10-minute time limit to finish.  We get to spend several minutes watching her set the table while she falls out of her top before Larry arrives to check on her progress.  Of course, he finds her work unsatisfactory so a series of hand spankings follow.

Around the 17-minute mark of the film the scene shifts to a bedroom upstairs.  Larry orders Judy to remove what little she is wearing (when she can stay in it).  Another argument ensues and it is followed by another hand spanking and this sequence is repeated twice before she complies with his order.   Then two more hand spankings follow before he finally moves on to a leather strap that he finds in a bedroom drawer.  Finally, he has her bend over a dressing table chair for a brief session with a flogger and yet another hand spanking.

I liked ‘Maid for Tears’ and I generally like movies with group scenes; ‘Heirs to Misfortune’ (Shadowlane) and ‘The Vacation’ (Spanking Epics) are two examples that come to mind.  ‘Maid for Tears’ certainly fits into this group and it offers a story line that is out of the ordinary but it would benefit from some editing to shorten a few scenes that drag on a little too long.  On the other hand, ‘The Maid Upstairs’ is a disappointment.  It is one of those movies that I watched when I first found it but then never watched again until now.  I find it both conventional and tedious.  It is supposed to be a sequel to ‘Maid for Tears’ but the two movies have very little in common.  I wonder if the original plan for the sequel was to have Kate return from vacation to be confronted by Eris and Frederica but maybe the woman playing Kate backed out when she saw the punishments inflicted on Frederica and Fiona at the end of the first movie.  Unfortunately, I doubt that I will ever know.