X-Rated

July, 1976

Producer-director Radley Metzger's The Opening of Misty Beethoven (made under his hard-core nom de film, Henry Paris) is the Pygmalion of deluxe porno. That's the idea, in any case. And Misty gets off to a loverly start with its story of a rich pleasuremaster (Jamie Gillis) who brings a hooker home from Paris to undergo a crash course in sexual submissiveness. Fellatio seems to be the major required subject in his curriculum (we thought they already knew about that in Paris) and Misty manages it...