The Audition

‘The Audition’ is a 52-minute long movie released by Kane International about 1987.  I don’t know of any distributor that is still selling this title. 

If you have followed my reviews then you will be aware that I am a fan of the spanking movies made by George Harrison Marks (GHM).  GHM left Janus in the fall of 1982 to create Kane magazine and Kane International, the movie wing of the operation, started soon afterward.  The GHM biographies that I’ve read agree that ‘The Cane and Mr. Abel’ was the first movie he made after leaving Janus but the second movie, ‘Mandy Bait’, was the first to be released under the Kane International banner.

‘The Audition’ is number 19 in the Kane International catalogue but these numbers weren’t assigned until the beginning of on-line sales, long after this movie was made.  The copyright date on the end card of the movie reads 1983 and the photostory based on ‘The Audition’ appeared in issue #34 of Kane Magazine (the story for ‘Mandy Bait’ appeared in issue #29).  Based on the copyright date and the magazine issue, I suspect that ‘The Audition’ was one of the earliest Kane International movies and that it was probably filmed soon after ‘Mandy Bait'.

I found a used DVD of this movie on sale at a spanking convention many years ago.  I watched it when I got home but I can’t remember if I stuck with all the way to the end and I never watched it again until a few days ago.  ‘The Audition’ may well be the worst GHM spanking movie I have ever watched.  It shares several of the common features of his movies including his fondness for girl-on-girl scenes and his sense of humor as displayed in the movies ending but the movie but the planning and execution simply aren’t up to GHM’s normal standards and many of the scenes just run too long.

The movie features a cast of 6 (2M, 4F) and the actor playing the stage director who is auditioning actresses for a musical is a familiar face.  The movie opens with a couple in bed in the morning and this turns into a 10-minute long sex scene that is devoid of any CP action aside from the woman giving her boyfriend a few light slaps on his bottom.  Occasionally the scene cuts away to the woman’s roommate who is making coffee in the kitchen and reading a newspaper called ‘The Stage’.  At about the 10-minute mark of the film the roommate breaks in on the couple in bed to show her friend a casting call she has seen in the paper.  The boyfriend is obviously irritated by this intrusion and he pulls the roommate across his knee and starts to spank her.  The girls eventually turn on him and a general melee ensues.  He leaves, never to be scene again, at about the 16-minute mark and the two girls continue without him until the 28-minute mark of the film.  I think this would have been a better film if this last scene had been cut in half.

An abrupt cut takes up to another apartment where a man is playing the piano while one woman   We eventually find out that the man is a director who is holding auditions for a stage musical and his sister is punishing an actress who he claims has wasted his time.  Her punishment, which lasts nearly 5 minutes begins with a hand spanking and ends with a caning.  After the caning, the miscreant leaves and passes the actress from the earlier scenes as she is arriving for an audition.  The sister brings our heroine in to meet the Director and the audition begins. I think we are intended to believe that the director is intentionally sabotaging her performance but she doesn’t seem to have much of a singing voice so it is hard to tell.  Eventually she complains that the piano is out of tune and the Director calls for his sister claiming that he has been insulted.  The sister proposes a spanking and, after some argument, the actress agrees to accept a spanking and that she might even accept a caning if the Director gives her the part.  The Director agrees and his sister takes charg

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The actress if ordered to undress and the sister gives her a hand spanking as the Director watches and comments on the action.  A series of other implements follow and the Director eventually joins in on the action and the punishment ends with the cane.   After the caning the actress is given the part as promised but the movie ends with a typical GHM twist.

I’m not impressed with this movie.  Unlike most GHM movies, it lacks a solid storyline and some of the scenes runs just too long.  The cinematography isn’t up to GHM’s usually standards either.  Many shots are poorly framed and the frequent closeups make it hard to know what is actually happening.  I haven’t watched this movie for along time and I can’t imagine that I will be watching it again any time soon.