The Lusting Hours (1967)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Directors:

John Amero
Lem Amero

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

The Call-Girl racket... The thrill-seeking housewives... The Street-Walkers... This is their lurid story!

Plot:

Presented as an inquiry into the ways of lust, this film is staged as a documentary. It moves from rural prostitution (the roadhouse) to pornographers...

Plot Keywords:

Dominatrix | Female Nudity | Lesbianism | Lesbian Scene | Stripper

Cast

Roberta Findlay	...	Prostitute / Street girl / Call girl / Voices (as Anna Riva)
Michael Findlay	...	Partygoer / Call girl's client / Voices (as Julien Marsh)
Jean Reynolds	...	Prostitute
Jim Stanton	...	Muscleman
Vi Lean	...	Rich lady
Steve Roule	...	Bathroom john (as Harrison Carroll)
Cindy Freemont	...	Stripper
Janet Banzet	...	Lesbian model (as Kay Rice)
Sheila Britt	...	Lesbian model (as Lena Lamont)
Ron Skideri	...	Male Hustler (as Don Lockwood)
Fay Howard	...	Madame
Satch Gould
Lem Amero	...	Narrator / Photographer / Male hustler's girlfriend (as Gun Gun Sharper)

Also Known As:

The Love Hours (USA)
The Wanting Hours (USA)
Wanting Hours (USA)

Runtime:

USA:73 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

dull and interesting at the same time

This faux documentary manages to be dull and interesting at the same time. Interesting more because of the way the various aspects of paid for sex are presented rather any clever insights (of which there are none) but dull because of a seeming total lack of interest in certain sections. This is split into three segments, House Girls, Street Girls and Call Girls and some rather decent shots of Times Square add a little much wanted colour throughout. Also throughout is a pompous, seemingly serious narration, by Lem that is absolutely hilarious. The two directors also produce, edit and film the proceedings and Lem, as well as narrating plays the stills photographer, with a prominent part in the first segment and more significantly the hustler's 'girlfriend'. The amount of time devoted to the hustler/male client in the second section comes as a great surprise and when we see him back at home preparing to be whipped by none other than good old Lem in drag we begin to wonder where this might go next. However despite a series of close ups of whips and the narrator rambling on about a pit of despair we simply cut to a guy being massaged, badly. The Findlay's are also involved but whilst this promises to get rough it doesn't really go down that road. The pious narrator would never allow it.