Inserts (1974)

User Rating:

6.0/10   

Director:

John Byrum

Writer:

John Byrum (writer)

Release Date:

13 February 1976 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

A degenerate film with integrity!

Plot:

A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s, and confides himself to his decaying mansion to make silent porn flicks.

Plot Keywords:

Hollywood | Director | Actress | Sex | 1930s

Cast

Richard Dreyfuss	...	Boy Wonder
Jessica Harper	...	Cathy Cake
Bob Hoskins	...	Big Mac
Veronica Cartwright	...	Harlene
Stephen Davies	...	Rex, the Wonder Dog

MPAA:

Rated NC-17 for explicit sexuality.

Runtime:

117 min | USA:99 min (cut version)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Canada:R | New Zealand:R18 | Netherlands:18 | UK:X (original rating) (cut) | Australia:R | Sweden:15 | UK:18 (video rating) | USA:NC-17 (re-rating) (1996) | USA:X (original rating) | West Germany:18 | Norway:18

Filming Locations:

Lee International Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK

Company:

Film and General Productions

Goofs:

Anachronisms: Sitting at piano, Boy Wonder plays song Moonglow, written in 1934. The movie takes place at least three or four years earlier (characters repeatedly talk about a then-unknown actor named Clark Gable, already a big star by time song was written).

Quotes:

Big Mac: I swear you do it just to rile me, pure and simple.
Boy Wonder: Nothing pure, old sport, is ever simple.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Playboy: The Story of X (1998) (V)

Soundtrack:

Moonglow

Undiscovered gem of drama & cinema

This films plot centers around the making of, probably one of the first, porn movies, Sadly when it was released it was pre-arthouse cinemas and pre-video, so it was lumped in with second rate soft porn flic houses around soho London. Consequently it died a lonely death. Around this time Art house cinemas were starting to emerge in University towns which is how I caught it late night in Edinburgh. I was just knocked out by it's sharp drama wrapped in a comedy that launched incredibly incisive comment. Bob Hoskins character as the wannabee hood getting irate when he discovers that Richard Dreyfuss's character, the has-been director, has removed the camera from the tripod, in shear enthusiasm, as he filmed the sexual act. 'How is that going to look!' 'It's not going to look, it's going to be looked at!' retorts Richard Dreyfuss character. The economy of the lines are brilliant! Yes this is a one room drama, which is a tall order for cinema and few have conquered it but this film does brilliantly.