It's so Embarrassing

“It’s So Embarrassing” was the third Red Stripe movie.  It was probably released in 1995 and it was eventually given Red Stripe catalogue number RS-113.  The movie is 68 minutes long.  Red Stripe movies can usually be recognized by their theme music and common style of title cards but these wouldn’t become standardized until the fourth Red Stripe movie.  All but about a dozen of the Red Stripe movies are currently available through the Roue website and this movie is available as a ‘Red Stripe Original’ at http://www.roue.com/red-stripe-original-/203-its-so-embarrassing.html.

The movie features four characters: a married couple named Gary and Jackie, their daughter Joanne and her teacher Miss Perkins.  Mel Penny plays Miss Perkins but I haven’t been able to identify the other actors.  Gary and Jackie are described in the liner notes as “a genuine married couple” and a title card describes them as a “practicing CP couple”.  An article in Volume 1, Number 9 of the Wellred Weekly (https://www.wellredweekly.com/index.php?article=376) identifies one of the women as spanking party regular ‘Big Mel’ (who is not Mel Penny) but I’m not sure which one, although I suspect it may be Jackie from the description given in the article.  Ivor Gold does not appear in the movie but he does direct.

The movie opens with Gary and Jackie siting in their living room as their daughter Joanne walks in and sits down.  Her father asks her ‘what’s wrong with you’ and she replies that she has ‘just been spanked’.  She explains why but her words are difficult to understand although it seems that neither of her parents have done something, but what they have done is  unintelligible.  From some later comments made by her teacher, I understand that Joanne's parents failed to attend a parent’s meeting at the school and Joanne was punished because her teacher believes that she kept the meeting secret from her parents.  The scene quickly shifts to a short flashback of Joanne being spanked by her teacher.  Back in the living room her father says that she didn’t tell them about the meeting but Joanne replies that she did tell her mother and her mother admits that she did.  Gary tells his wife that ‘you know what this means’ and she replies ‘I suppose so’.  She tells her daughter that ‘she had better go out for a while’ but Gary says ‘No’ and that he wants her to 'see this’.  Gary also tells his wife to phone Miss Perkins and tell her that she is going to be spanked for her error.   Miss Perkins replies that she wants to witness Jackie’s punishment and Gary agrees to this request.  Gary tells Jackie that she should change into the appropriate attire for her punishment and she leaves to change.  This has all taken just under 10 minutes.

In the bedroom, Jackie opens the door of a closet that contains two canes and a black dress.  She puts on the dress, collects the canes and an assortment of other spanking implements and returns downstairs just as Miss Perkins arrives.  After some discussion, Gary takes Jackie over his knee for a hand spanking, first with her dress up and later with her panties down.  The hand spanking continues until the 21-minute mark of the movie.

A hair brush comes next and she goes back over her knee for most of it but he has her stand for the final eighteen.  Afterward he has her move so Miss Perkins can examine the results of his work.  He tells her that he is going to cane her next but before that he has her bend over the chair for a baker’s dozen swats with a small leather paddle.  The hair brush and the paddle take just over 10 minutes and there are a couple of easily noticeable editing errors in the later part of this section of the movie. 

Gary has Jackie fix her dress and panties and then he sends her to select one of the canes.  Once he has a cane, he has her stand in the middle of the room and touch her toes.  He lifts her dress and the caning begins.  After four strokes he adjusts her panties to expose bare skin and he re-positions her with her hands on her knees.  Two more strokes and her panties come down.  Five more strokes, then he has her kneel over the back of a chair for another six strokes.  Now, he has her turn the chair around and bend over with her hands on the seat for seven strokes.  The strokes are hard but, by this time, his constant stopping for inane comments or to reposition her is starting to make the scene drag.  The next seven strokes are delivered with her touching her toes again and he has her stand for the final very hard stroke.  Finally, he has her pull up her panties and stand in the corner.  Every change in position is accompanied by some pointless and repetitive dialogue.  In total, 32 strokes of the cane take over 20 minutes and that is just too long.

As soon as I saw Miss Perkins arrive to witness Jackie’s punishment, I was expecting that she would eventually end up paying the price for Joanne’s spanking.  I was looking forward to that in the beginning but my enthusiasm for this disappeared as Jackie’s caning dragged on and on.  Miss Perkins announces that she is satisfied with the punishment and starts to leave but, as I had expected, Gary stops her to point out that she had punished Joanne without his permission.  He does not accept her claim that this is normal practice and he gives her the choice of accepting his punishment, with his daughter watching, or he will call her head mistress.  Of course, she decides to accept his punishment.  

Her punishment follows the same pattern as Jackie’s only it doesn't drag on as long.  She starts out over his knee for a hand spanking.  He lifts her skirt so he can continue the spanking but he soon has her bent over the chair for a different leather strap than he had used on Jackie.  Her panties come down after six swats of the strap and another eight follow.   Next come twelve strokes of the cane but these turn into 15 by the time he is finished.  These strokes are also quite hard and, while they are delivered with less stalling than Jackie’s caning, they are still dragged out unnecessarily which has become quite irritating by this point.  Miss Perkin’s punishment has taken barely 10 minutes but that’s not the end of the movie.  Joanne starts to get a little ‘cheeky’ so she is soon over her father’s knee for a hand spanking.  Her panties are soon down for the last of her spanking then she too is bent over the chair for a dozen hard licks of a leather strap.  The movie ends with all three women standing facing the wall with their skirts up and their panties down.

This movie began well but it simply dragged on much too long; it should have been at least 10, and maybe 15 minutes shorter.  There are a few technical issues, including inadequate lighting, poor framing, some very awkward edits and a camera being in-frame in some of the scenes but Ivor was learning how to make a movie.  I would love to try to edit this movie to make it tighter but that would probably be impossible without access to the raw footage.  It a shame, this had the makings of a very good movie.