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Radley Metzger (screenplay)
Release Date:
3 October 1977 (Portugal)
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Plot:
Pornography meets Pygmalion. Misty, the hooker, meets the sexologist who thinks he can transform her...
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7 wins
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Imagination, dialog and a storyline in a porn film!
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Cast
(in credits order) (complete, awaiting verification) | Constance Money | ... | Misty Beethoven |
| Jamie Gillis | ... | Dr. Seymour Love |
| Jacqueline Beudant | ... | Geraldine Rich |
| Terri Hall | ... | Tanya |
| Ras Kean | ... | Lawrence Lehman (as Ras King) |
| Gloria Leonard | ... | Barbara |
| Calvin Culver | ... | Art Dealer (as Casey Donovan) |
| Mary Stuart | ... | Flight Attendant with Cigar |
| Jenny Baxter | ... | Flight Attendant (as Janet Baldwin) |
| Cynthia Gardner | ||
| Helene Simone | ||
| Marlene Willoughby | ... | Final Maid (as Marlene Parker) |
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| Peter Andrews | ... | Servant with Slicked Hair (uncredited) |
| Terry Austin | ... | Brothel Patron (uncredited) |
| Nancy Dare | ... | Blond Maid (uncredited) |
| Michael Gaunt | ... | Geraldine's Male Prostitute (uncredited) |
| Grover Griffith | ... | Speculating Guy (uncredited) |
 | Mark Margolis | ... | Unhappy Guy on Plane (uncredited) |
| Ian Morley | ... | First Guy in Limousine (uncredited) |
| Michael Ronds | ... | Servant with Geraldine (uncredited) |
| Crystal Sync | ... | Maid with Geraldine (uncredited) |
| Tia von Davis | ... | Pilot's Wife (uncredited) |
| David Williams | ... | Guy Serviced on Plane (uncredited) |
Directed by | |||
| Radley Metzger | (as Henry Paris) | ||
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| Radley Metzger | (screenplay) (as Jake Barnes) | |
Produced by | |||
| Ava Leighton | .... | producer (as L. Sultana) | |
Original Music by | |||
| Elephant's Memory | (uncredited) | ||
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| Paul Glickman | (photography) (as Robert Rochester) | ||
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| Bonnie Karrin | |||
Art Direction by | |||
| Anton Stone | |||
Art Department | |||
| Isabelle Stone | .... | assistant art director | |
Sound Department | |||
| Harold Keller | .... | sound mixer | |
| Joe Masefield | .... | sound effects | |
Music Department | |||
| George Craig | .... | music supervisor | |
Production Companies
- Crescent Films (as Cresent Films)
- Quality X Video (1981) (USA) (VHS)
- TVX (????) (USA) (VHS)
- Catalyst Productions (????) (USA) (VHS)
- VCA Pictures (1989) (USA) (VHS)
- VCA Pictures (2001) (USA) (DVD)
- Joy Bear Pictures (2006) (UK) (DVD)
Additional Details
Also Known As:
"Misty Beethoven" - USA (promotional abbreviation)
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Runtime:
85 min | Italy:90 min | Sweden:90 min
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Trivia:
Film's plot is based on the Pygmalion legend.See more »
Quotes:
Misty Beethoven:What's the biggest difference between New York and Rome?
Seymour Love:There aren't as many Italians in Rome.
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Seymour Love:There aren't as many Italians in Rome.
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Referenced in A Taste of Money (1988)See more »
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Try crossing My Fair Lady with Deep Throat and you'll end up with "The Opening of Misty Beethoven", a porn film with good production values, surprisingly decent acting, and a young, knockout female lead actress.
This film could never have been made today where all you see are numerous gynecological closeups with copious amounts of spewing bodily fluids. Instead you are treated to an imaginative film with a lot of laughs wrapped around enough sex to earn it's XXX rating.
Constance Money, worth seeing in this film by herself, plays the Eliza Doolittle role as the classless gum popping French street hooker (Misty Beethoven) who gives hand jobs in a dingy Paris movie theater. Jamie Gillis plays the Henry Higgins part as Dr Seymour Love, willing to take on Misty and turn her from this cheap trollop into a high class "Goldenrod Girl" with the help of Jacqueline Beaudant (a female Colonel Pickering?).
There are some very funny sequences on the adult airlines and in the training sequences which brought to mind the "Rocky" films. The sex is not of the grind house variety that you find in most XXX films but it is highly erotic, entertaining and with Ms. Money, surprisingly romantic. This is a jewel of an erotic film.