Molly's Hundred (and 105 Strokes)

 

'Molly’s Hundred’ is a 35-1/2 minute movie made by Moonglow North (catalogue number N15) in 2002.  This movie is available on various video on demand sites such as www.hotmovies.com. 

The Moonglow on-line catalogue describes “Molly’s Hundred” as:

Alison shows her steel in this one; she takes a hundred and five strokes of the cane. Nothing is faked - she counts each and every one. For what it's worth, the story line is simple. She plays Molly, a gangster's moll, who is caught in bed with one of the gangster's heavies. He escapes before he can be identified and she refuses to say who he was. The gangster soundly paddles her backside, but she still refuses to tell. He tells her that she will get 100 strokes of the cane after lunch if she doesn't say. But after lunch she is still adamant and he carries out his threat. It is only at the 105th stroke that she gives in!

‘105 Strokes’ is a 57-minute long alternate cut of ‘Molly’s Hundred’ that was released by 6666 Productions; I haven’t been able to find the date of release.  This version is also available on various video on demand sites such as www.hotmovies.com.  ‘105 Strokes’ starts with the 35-1/2 minutes of ‘Molly’s Hundred’ but that is followed by another 20+ minutes of alternate camera angles and some ‘behind the scenes’ footage   There is a bootleg version of ‘105 Strokes’ circulating around the various spanking forums but it is missing the first 7 minutes; it starts at the fourth stroke of the cane.  A rough cut of the missing 7 minutes is shown at the beginning of the extra footage but the deletion of the first 7 minutes makes the story, such as it is, difficult to follow.

‘Molly’s Hundred’ (and ‘105 Strokes’) features Cavern/Moonglow North regulars Joe Stewart as a mob boss who is only called 'Boss', Alison Payne as Molly, his wife/girlfriend and one other unidentified man as mob member Giuseppe.  The story is quite simple, Joe knows that Alison is cheating on him and he wants to know who her lover is, she won’t tell him so he’s going to beat it out of her.

The movie starts with Molly (Alison), in a sheer magenta dress, returning home and being confronted by her husband (Joe) who demands to know where she has been.  There are very few preliminaries and she is soon across his knee within a minute of the movie’s opening.  The hand spanking lasts about 2 minutes then he gets a rubber paddle and takes her back over his knee.   This paddling also lasts about 2 minutes and it leaves her bottom quite red.  She still won’t tell him where she has been and he has a luncheon appointment so he tells her that he is going to give her 100 strokes of the cane when he returns.  He sends her away and gives her one final swat as she leaves.

After a brief cut, a caning bench and a selection of canes are already set out ready for the 100 strokes.  Alison walks in wearing a different dress and waits by the fireplace.  Joe arrives and gives her one last chance to tell him where she has been.  She won’t, so the caning begins.  She counts the strokes and, after the first 25, an unseen male character called Giuseppe briefly enters.  After he leaves Joe tells Molly to strip and she is naked for the rest of her caning.

She goes back over the bench, but she is not restrained, and her caning continues.  Another 25 hard strokes are delivered before Joe decides that she is wiggling around too much so he decides to restrain her but Giuseppe returns before he does.  Once she is securely strapped in place the caning continues but after a few strokes Joe tells Giuseppe to take over.  The heard but never seen Giuseppe delivers 10 strokes, bring the total so far to 65, and then Joe is back for a few more strokes.  Joe and Giuseppe alternate through the rest of the caning which is obviously taking a toll but Alison is remarkably resilient even though the strokes seem to get harder toward the end.  Joe steps back in for a final five strokes, bring the total to 105.  The plot of a spanking movie shouldn’t be over analyzed but the ending of ‘Molly’s Hundred’ is particularly weak (I would disclose the final plot ‘twist’).  The movie ends with Molly left alone and struggling to free herself from the straps.

I think this movie attracted a lot of attention when it was first released but I had already seen the Mood Pictures film ‘Martial Law’, which was made a year later, before I first watched ‘Molly’s Hundred’.  ‘Martial Law’ also features a 100-stroke caning but that caning was even harder than his one and the actress in ‘Martial Law’ (Kate Lust) was clearly dazed by the end of her ordeal.  Two cameras were used in the filming of 'Molly's Hundred' but there is a problem with the aperture setting of the one that is  focused on Alison's face.  There are a few interesting bits in the extra footage, particularly where Joe and the director discuss the wrap around effect of a rattan cane, but they aren’t something you would ever want to watch more than once.  Never the less, this is a movie that is worth seeing.