‘Teachers
Folly’ is a DVD “From the BFI Archive Classics Collection” that was copyright by
“Roue Distribution” in 2006. It is not
currently available from the Roue website (http://www.roue.com/) and I am not aware
of any other source.
The first
spanking videos that I ever bought were two VHS tapes from Moonglow. Each tape had a handwritten label that
identified the three movies on the tape by their catalogue number. One of the movies was ‘Teacher’s Folly’ (C08). I picked that movie from the still photos on
the Moonglow website and I wasn’t disappointed; it remains one of my
favorites. I was browsing through a used
DVD site a few months ago when I found a listing for ‘Teachers Folly’ but I was
quite surprised to find that I didn’t recognize any of the photos on the
cover.
This ‘Teachers
Folly’ is a 55-minute movie that is described as being “From the BFI Archives
Classics Collection”. I have seen a
‘BFI’ bug on a number of videos on sites around the web before but I don’t know anything about the company
beyond that. I haven’t been able
to discover anything else about the original producer of this movie.
Ivor Goldblatt,
the founder of Red Stripe, plays the Teacher but this movie doesn’t appear in
the Red Stripe catalogue so I suspect it was made before Red Stripe was
founded. The fine print on the back of
the cover mentions “Roue Distribution” and says that the DVD is “Not for sale
in the UK”. It also gives a copyright
date of 2006 but I presume that is for the DVD rather than the original video
which looks more like a mid-to-late eighties VHS tape.
It isn’t easy to bore me with a movie about two young women being strapped, paddled and caned but this movie managed to do just that. It is slow, repetitive and talky. The camera work is poor and there are long sequences that consist of nothing but a close up of one of the women’s backsides. That made it very hard to find screencaps to illustrate this review because many of them look the same. The editing is poor and a ‘cut’ is heard at several places in the movie; in other places the count in to the start of the action is also heard. But the most serious problem is that it is a 40-minute story stretched out over a 55-minute movie. I was seriously considering abandoning the movie about 10 minutes from the end. An aggressive edit that cuts about 10 minutes might help the pacing but the weak story and the poor framing are beyond repair. All things considered, this movie was a disappointment and it certainly isn’t one that I would recommend.
UPDATE: I found out that this movie was released in the US by CalStar under the name 'Nothing but Trouble' (it's available through several VOD sites) but I still don't know the original producers.
