Slaves of Mistress Monique

‘Slaves of Mistress Monique’ is a 49-minute long femdom movie produced in 1983 or 1984.  The movie was produced and written by Victor Bruno and directed by George Harrison-Marks.  It was distributed by Kane International in the UK (no. 7 in the KI online catalogue) and by CalStar in the US.  ‘Slaves of Mistress Monique’ is currently available on the Hot Movies VOD site at www.hotmovies.com.

As I wrote in my last post, I have a list of movies that I have been trying to find and I recently found two of them on Hotmovies.com.  I wrote about the S&M documentary ‘To Ride A Tiger’ in my last post so it's time for the femdom movie ‘Slaves of Mistress Monique’.  I first heard about this movie while I was trying to compile a list of Janus movies and I later found it listed in the online Kane International catalogue.  I didn't know much about it until I found an ad for the movie in the back pages of Janus 20.  

The movie was produced and written by Victor Bruno and directed by George Harrison-Marks (GHM).  I’ve written about GHM several times but Victor Bruno was unknown to me.  A Google search filled in some of the blanks.  Bruno was (or maybe still is, because I couldn’t find out if he is still alive) a regular contributor to Janus and other spanking magazines of that era and a prolific writer of BDSM fiction during the 1970s and 80s.  One website I found (www.a1adultebooks.com) currently sells 64 of his works in electronic format.  He eventually created his own publishing company.  Obviously, at some point he also started to write and produce movies, including this one.

There are two parts to the CalStar version of ‘Slaves of Mistress Monique’.  The first part, ‘Devoted to Discipline’, is 20 minutes long and it features Linzi Drew as Mistress Monique.  Drew was a prolific British adult movie actress through the eighties and nineties who also had minor roles in a number of British TV shows and commercial movies including ‘An American Werewolf in London’, ‘Aria’, ‘Salome’s Last Dance’ and ‘The Liar of the White Worm’ (the last three directed by Kurt Russell).  She appeared in two other GHM movies: ‘Warden’s End’ (Janus, 1982) and ‘The Cane and Mr. Able’ (Imprint/Phoenix, 1984).  ‘Devoted to Discipline’ shows Linzi as Mistress Monique in a domestic setting with her house boy, a slave she keeps in her closet and finally with a teacher who had supposedly mistreated her cousin who appears out of nowhere, dressed in her school uniform, to assist Mistress Monique in giving him a severe beating with a cane and tawse.

The second part, 'The Resident Slave’ is 29 minutes long and it features Mistress Stella, who is described as Mistress Monique’s friend (otherwise Mistress Monique is totally absent from Part 2 of the movie named after her), and her domestic slave at her country home outside London.   After a short voice-over introduction, Part 2 opens with Mistress Stella reading a magazine that appeared to feature her on the cover.  With a little digging I was able to find out that the magazine she was reading was ‘Miss Sadie Stern’s Monthly’, Vol. 2, No. 2 but I wasn’t able to find out if it actually was Mistress Stella on the cover. 

  

The remainder of Part 2 is a ‘day-in-the-life’ story of Mistress Stella and her slave that she keeps in a box and beats at regular intervals.  I didn’t find Part 2 terribly interesting but that probably isn’t surprising since it isn’t intended for someone like me.

I’m not convinced that this CalStar movie is the original ‘Slaves of Mistress Monique’ and I can’t escape the feeling that the second part was added later.  I don’t have any proof of that but there are a few things that just don’t seem right to me.  First is the complete absence of any mention of the second part in the ad I found in Janus (copied above).  The second involves the title cards at the beginning of the two parts; the card at the beginning of Part 1 is similar to the title cards on several other GHM movies made about the same time but the card at the beginning of part 2 is quite different.

 

But the most important difference to me is the absence of any of GHM’s unique touches anywhere in Part 2.  Linzi Drew’s final line at the end of Part 1 is classic GHM (it is similar to the final line at the end of the Janus movie ’Warden’s End’ which also featured Linzi Drew) but there nothing like that in Part 2.  That makes me wonder if the second part was actually directed by GHM.

There are some technical problems with the copy of the movie that I obtained.  Most are the result of age but the sound track is out of synchronization with the video near the end of Part 1 and this problem continues through Part 2.