Mandy Bait (or Mandy Bates)

‘Mandy Bait’ is a 27-minute long movie made about 1984.  According to the information I have been able to find, ‘Mandy Bait’ was the second movie made by George Harrison-Marks (GHM) through ‘Imprint Productions’.  It was eventually distributed by ‘Kane International’ where it was given the catalogue number KI #10 when GHM finally got around to assigning catalogue numbers.  The movie forms the basis for a photostory that appeared in Kane Magazine #29 and it was released in the US by CalStar in 1986 under the name ‘Mandy Bates’ (more about that below) and then again in 2009 in the CalStar Quickies series.  The CalStar Quickie version is currently available from the HotMovies.com video-on-demand website.

The movie opens with Mandy (who doesn’t have a last name in the movie) collecting text books off the desks in a empty classroom and taking them to the teacher’s desk where she finds a copy of Kane Magazine #6 (which would have been published near the end of 1983)  in a desk drawer.  Mandy starts looking through the magazine and she becomes more and more excited as she does.  Soon she begins at attend to the problem and, of course, that is when her teacher, Miss Williams, walks in.  Miss Williams, who is played by Sue Ellis, a frequent performer in Kane movies and live spanking parties, decides to take Mandy to see Mr. Hobbs, the Headmaster. This is the second time Mandy has seen Mr. Hobbs this week and Miss Williams tells him that she thinks a caning is in order.   Mr. Hobbs is reluctant since it has been 5 years since the cane was last used in his school but he agrees. Mandy removes her skirt and Mr. Hobbs pulls down her panties before giving her 6 strokes of the cane with an additional three added for her insolence during the punishment.  

After the caning is over, Miss Williams starts to escort Mandy back to the classroom but, before they leave Mr. Hobbs asks Mandy where she got the magazine.  She tells him that she found it in Miss Williams’ drawer so Mr. Hobbs asks Miss Williams to remain behind.   Miss Williams admits that the magazine is hers but claims that it is her business.  Mr. Hobbs disagrees and decides that Miss Williams should be punished for bringing the magazine into the school.  He orders he to remove her dress and her panties and bends her over his desk for a hand spanking.  He sends her back to her classroom and she blows him a kiss before leaving his office.

Miss Williams returns to her classroom, with her dress still off, where she confronts Mandy who is sitting on her desk with her dress still off.  Soon, the two decide to compare their bottoms but, before they do, Miss Williams decides to lock the door.  It isn’t long before both are undressed and Miss Williams is giving Mandy a massage on the desk.  A few playful slaps on each others bottom’s follow and this leads into the beginning of one of GHM's typical girl-on-girl scenes but the movie ends before the scene goes very far. 

CalStar changed the name of this movie, as they often do, but the change is rather subtle.  CalStar gives Mandy a last name that she doesn’t have in the movie itself or in the Kane magazine photostory.  GHM’s movies often include elements of his sense of humour and I think the original title is an example of this.  Since the magazine belongs to Miss Williams, it seems strange that she would take Mandy to the Headmaster and that she would propose the cane as a punishment unless, she is setting up Mandy for the final seduction.  In that case, the magazine poorly concealed in her desk drawer would be the bait in a trap set to catch Mandy, so the magazine would be ‘Mandy Bait’.  That seems like a title that would appeal to GHM’s sense of humour but it appears that the people at CalStar didn’t get the joke … nor did I at first.

This movie isn’t a favorite of mine.  The canings and spankings are unremarkable and the pace of the movie is rather slow.  ‘Mandy Bait’ has a number of GHM’s signature features that I usually like but I don’t think this is one of his best movies.  However, I would like to find out what other movies the actress who plays Miss Williams may have made so please leave a comment if you know of any (Update:  It's Sue Ellis and she made several Kane movies including 'The Errant Daughter', 'The Caning Club', 'Six Days a Week', 'Derriere Dynamite (Live)', 'The Beak, The Mistress and the Schoolgirls' and 'Uncle Silas' Bequests'.)

Naughty Nieces 1 & 2

‘Naughty Nieces 1’ and ‘Naughty Nieces 2’ are Imprint Productions from 1985.  Both movies are 24-minutes long and both were released in the US by CalStar under the same names .  They are currently available from the HotMovies.com video-on-demand website.

In my last post I mentioned that ‘The Cane and Mr. Abel’ was often described as an ‘Imprint Production’.  This is another company that has caught my attention and I have been trying to find out anything I can about it.  I have identified 13 movies that I believe are Imprint Productions; all were made between 1982 and 1986 and many (but not all) of them have characteristics that I would associate with George Harrison-Marks (GHM).  All were distributed by CalStar in the US (and I have the CalStar version of all but one of them) but I have only been able to identify the UK distributor of five of the movies; 2 were distributed by Kane International and one each by Janus, Roue and Phoenix. 

The movies from ‘Imprint Productions’ that I have identified so far are (revised Feb. 2020):

1. Gone to Pot (Kane, 1986) – called Naughty, Naughty by CalStar;
2. It Hurts to Remember (1986); 
3.  Maid Service (1986) – called Fetch the Cane by CalStar; 
4.  Mandy Bait (Kane, 1984) – called Mandy Bates by CalStar;
5.  Naughty Nieces 1 (1986);
6.  Naughty Nieces 2 (1986);
7.  Payment in Pain (1986);
8.  Private Lessons (Roue, 1984);
9.  Punish a Thief (1985);
10. Spanking Video #2 (CalStar collection of scenes that credits "Imprint Productions 1987");
11. The Cane and Mr. Abel (Phoenix, 1984);
12. The Game (1985) – called Bottoms Up by CalStar.

The dates given above are the UK dates when I have them and CalStar dates otherwise.  I have no reason to believe that this list is complete and I will update it if I obtain any more information.

I have the CalStar version of ‘Naughty Nieces 1’ but the UK version of ‘Naughty Nieces 2’ which does identify the producer as Imprint at both the beginning and end of the movie.  CalStar has removed these cards from ‘Naughty Nieces 1’ but both movies open with the same jazz music (but the CalStar has cut the first few bars where the Imprint card would have appeared in ‘Naughty Nieces 1’).  I have also seen a version with the two movies combined into one but I think this is a bootlegged version of the movies that circulates around the internet.

In Part 1, a man approaches two young women and hires them to serve as maids to a rather eccentric older gentleman and accept 'proper' discipline when appropriate.  It doesn’t take long before their new employer is dissatisfied with their service and the punishments begin.  He orders them to lift their skirts, remove their panties and bend over a table for a very lengthy (12 minute) bare bottom hand spanking but the punishments don’t go any further than this.  The girl’s uncle (played by George Harrison-Marks) walks in toward the end of the spankings, obviously expecting to be part of the action, and he is horrified to discover that his nieces have been playing discipline games with a total stranger.

Part 2 opens in a setting that GHM used in several other movies (the wallpaper is quite distinctive).  The girls Aunt is in the bath when her husband returns home in a furious mode and she soon ends up over his knee for a hand spanking followed by a few strokes of a tawse.  (A much longer version of the Aunt's punishment was released by CalStar as English Spanking Classics #6 - Punished Wife.)  The two girls return home where their Uncle decides that proper discipline is exactly what his nieces need.  He has the girls bend over a sofa and he pulls down their panties to discover the marks on their bottoms (the make up is terribly overdone).  Both girls are given a slippering by their Aunt and Uncle which includes a slow-motion scene with distorted sound that I found annoying.  Finally, the girls are order to undress and, after a short session of calisthenics, both are ordered onto their hands and knees for a caning which includes another slow-motion scene.

The technical work is generally very good but the story is confused (I’m never really certain of why the Aunt is being punished at the beginning of Part 2) and it lacks GHM’s usual sense of humour.  I also found the slow-motion scenes with their distorted sound to be particularly annoying.  All things considered, these two movies are not GHM’s best work.