Troublesome Daughters

‘Troublesome Daughters’ is a 25-minute long movie made by George Harrison-Marks (GHM) about 1988.  It was released by Kane International (catalogue number 14) in the UK and a collection of photographs from the movie appears in issue number 39 of Kane magazine.  The movie was also released by CalStar in the US as English Spanking Classics #17 (along with Sugar Cane Jane) and that release is currently available on several ‘video on demand’ site such as www.hotmovies.com.

In my last post I mentioned that I was reworking my dating of the Kane movies.  Starting with Kane 29, GHM published photographs from his movie in each issue of the magazine and the appearance of these photostories is a good indicator of when the movie was released.  The only problem is that he doesn’t put dates on the issues.  I knew that he began Kane magazine after he left Janus in the fall of 1982 and two biographies say that Kane 69 was at the printers when he died in June 1997.  If so, he produced 69 issues in something like 14-1/2 years which is 4.75 issues per year.  However, I suspected that the rate of production fell in the last few years but I didn’t know by how much.  Over Christmas I had the opportunity to flip through a number of printed issues of the magazine and I picked up a few clues.  Kane 50 contains an announcement of a Kane Club member’s event in September 1989 and Kane 52 contains an announcement of a ‘new 1990 release’ (‘Take three Girls’) as well as a letter about a member’s event in December 1989.  Based on that information I concluded that Kane 51 was probably the last issue of 1989.  That would mean 51 issues in just over 7 years, or 7 issues per year.  The magazine also promotes a subscription offer, subscribe to 6 issues and receive a 7^th issue free; that would have been an annual subscription, which makes sense.  I have reworked the release dates based on that publication frequency during the 80s and updated the previous posts.  The magazine must have ben published less frequently during the 90s but I’m still trying to work that out.  

‘Troublesome Daughters’ begins with the butler enjoying a glass of his employer’s Scotch in the drawing room when the lord of the manor phones to say that he will be arriving home soon.  The tells his employer that there have been problems between the new Governess and the Lord’s daughters and that he will explain when the Lord returns home.  He finishes his drink just as the Governess, Miss Prism, arrives (GHM obviously knows Oscar Wilde).  The Butler demands that Miss Prism explain why she punished the Lord’s daughter contrary to his expressed wishes.  Miss Prism informs him of an affair between the daughter and a member of the staff and accuses the Butler of failing to maintain proper order in the house.  A heated argument ensues and it ends with Miss Prism storming out of the room.

We cut to a bedroom where the Lord’s daughter (who is obviously not a teenager) is in the midst of an erotic telephone conversation with her boyfriend when the Butler walks in.  He is, of course outraged by what he finds and he decides that a good spanking is in order and a hand spanking, delivered in two parts, follows.  His Lordship arrives home just after the midpoint of the movie and he noises from his daughter’s bedroom and he charges in to find the Butler still spanking her.  He demands to know what has been going on and, when he finds out, he orders the Butler to continue spanking his daughter while he storms off to find Miss Prism.

Miss Prism arrives and his Lordship reminds her that he had strictly forbidden the use of corporal punishment so, as we might expect, he decides to punish her.  He has her bend over a chair and he takes out a slipper that his father used on him.  He delivers ten swats with a very exaggerated motion that looks quite forceful but probably wasn’t.  He has her stand and another ten swats follow.  The scene ends with his Lordship fondling Miss Prism’s bottom in an exaggerated state of arousal.    

This movie is a rather pointless little bit of fluff.  The story is fine but the punishments are nothing special and whoever plays the Lord overacts almost to the point of being comic.  The actress playing the daughter is too old to play a teenager (a second daughter is mentioned but never seen).  I have a copy of the CalStar English Spanking Classics version that I downloaded from hotmovies.com and the sound is terrible.  I have never been able to find a copy of the Kane International release but I hope it is better.

Punished Wife

‘Punished Wife’ is a 54-minute long movie.  I don’t know who produced the movie, or when, or what company distributed it outside of the US but it was distributed by CalStar in the US as English Spanking Classics #6 and that release is currently available on several ‘video on demand’ site such as www.hotmovies.com.  The only date that is available comes from a CalStar title card that says the original production was ‘prior to July 3, 1995’.

‘Punished Wife’ has been on the list of movies that I wanted to review for quite a while but I have been focusing on the early Kane International movies while I’ve been collecting information to help me build a better list of dates for those movies.   However, I recently received a comment about my review of ‘Naughty Nieces 1 & 2’ that made me wish I had written this review earlier, so here it is.  This last statement may seem odd but there is an obvious connection between this movie and the two Naughty Nieces movies that may shed some light on the pedigree of this movie.  ‘Punished Wife’ has only two characters but they are played by the same two actors who play the husband and wife in ‘Naughty Nieces 2’ as shown in the two vidcaps below; the first from ‘Punished Wife’ and the second from 'Naughty Nieces 2’. 

But, the two movies were obviously filmed at different times and in different places as shown in the vidcaps from the bath tub scenes in the two movies; the first from ‘Punished Wife’ and the second from ‘Naughty Nieces 2’.  

‘Punished Wife’ opens with Michael, the husband, standing by an open window, complete with traffic noise, talking to the audience for about 3 minutes.  He tells the viewers that he walked in on a film crew making an adult movie in his house when he arrived the day before and he discovered that his wife was starring in the movie.  Then he invites the viewers to watch what he describes as a true-life chronicle of just retribution.

The morning starts in the bedroom but quickly moves to the bathroom where she fills the bath tub (accompanied by very loud water sounds).  Her bath lasts over 5 minutes then its back to bedroom for another 5 minutes of hair and makeup.  I found this part of the movie was becoming tedious by the time it ended.  It is only at this point, the 15-minute mark of the movie, that her punishment begins.  Michael picks up a hair brush, orders her bends over the bed and nearly 30 smacks with the hairbrush follow.  Afterward, he leaves her to get dressed and waits for her in the lounge.

Cut to a few minutes later and he returns to the bedroom to find out why she is taking so long.  He finds her still naked and proceeds to give her a hard hand spanking.  Another cut, he is in the lounge and she enters.  Michael finds that she has ‘dressed for the camera’ and he sends her off to change while he tells the audience that he has decided on another round of punishment.  He goes off and returns with plastic ruler that looks like if might be 24-iches long.  When she returns, he has her take of her skirt and bend over a chair.  He gives her a long spanking with the ruler and a some of the strokes seemed quite hard.  Then he has her sit on the chair and gives her several strokes on the inside of her thighs that also looked quite hard.  Next, she is back over the chair for another session on the ruler on her backside, and these may even harder than the previous round.

He sends her off to clean the kitchen.  When he goes in to check on her, he is disappointed with her progress and he finds a slotted turner (I used to call it a spatula but I'm told that a spatula doesn’t have slots) in a kitchen drawer.  He has her bend over the counter and he uses the kitchen tool on both her legs and buttocks which produces a very pronounced reaction.  They return to the lounge for the final segment where she is soon naked and lying on a table.  First the ruler returns, mostly on her thighs, and then he moves on to his belt.  The movie ends rather abruptly but I don’t have any reason to believe that the CalStar version is incomplete.

There are some parts of this movie, particularly the first sequence with the ruler, that I really like but, overall, I was disappointed.  The biggest problem is pace; the movie is slow and there were several places were I just wanted them to ‘get on with it’.  The other problem is the camera work.  It isn’t that difficult to frame a shot but over and over again in these reviews I find myself complaining about poor camera work.  Maybe video cameras were still a novelty at the time.  

I still don’t know who made this movie or when.  I would guess that it was filmed in 1985 or 86 and probably not too long after the 'Naughty Nieces' movies were produced. I don't think that George Harrison-Marks played any role in the making of the movie because it doesn't have any of his characteristic touches, but that certainly isn't definitive.

The Punishment Man

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