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.