...but still not very good. Lead actress Carol Levy is gorgeous and more importantly shows herself to be a capable actress, carrying off the double roles of Audrey and Lucy with poise and charisma. Almost everything else in the movie works less well. First, the movie aims to be stylish and jet setting, but the budget leaves a fair bit to be desired on the style front - a lot of screen time is taken up sitting in the open air cafes and bars of Nice sipping drinks or walking about its streets. Also, the tone is supposed to be that of a light sex comedy, but the pace of the movie is way too leisurely. Comedies should not have this much dead time on screen, plus the material is weak. A few jokes work almost by accident, but a typical episode of Two and a Half Men manages to be funnier, smarter and bawdier than anything here. Lastly, the movie is almost totally lacking in erotic sizzle. It's a sex romp with most of the sex missing or toned down!
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Doubling professions
videorama-759-8593914 October 2016
I really don't know what to make of this whole affair, where in the end TPATCG doesn't really add up to much, as in it's offering, but you're glad you went on it's ride. The film is about two lookalikes trading professions over a night, played competently by it's lead, where as Audrey our debutante, she's much more memorable and striking, spouting a catchy and cute tagline. The catalyst is that the call girl has developed a crush on someone, and has to be somewhere else, after making plans to meet him, where from here, we sit back and watch the fun begin, among some nudity and kinky sex scenes, a couple involving a threesome. Yes "No one does it like Lucy Darling", and sexy lead Levy indeed makes a lasting impression, the best thing about the film, where you feel she deserves better material. The soft core sex flick has it's moments, and style, and in it's own respect, it's not a bad movie, featuring one surprise star, the late short lived actor, Scott Plank, as the smitten stud, Stanley. Just don't go looking for anything deep here.
Nobody Does It Like Lucy Darling.
rmax30482310 April 2011
Warning: Spoilers
Carol Levy plays two look-alike friends in New York. One is a naive and engaged conservative, the other a case of loose-limbed morality. The reckless one, Lucy Darling, has an appointment or something in Monaco but must stay in New York. She convinces her staid Doppelganger, Audrey Swallow, to take her place and go to Monaco. Swallow is recalcitrant. It would upset her life and all that. Of course, the switch is made anyway. The rube goes to Monaco and the slut stays in New York.
What follows is mostly predictable. In Monaco, Audrey is seduced by various men and women. Back in New York, Lucy pretends to be Audrey but fails miserably, showing up at an elegant party in a tiny bathing suit.
No need to go on with the plot. This switching of identities business is pretty hoary stuff. It was the subject of Shakespeare's first play -- and HE stole it from the Greeks. But this plot is as common as it is because it provides so many opportunities for laughs. Some, but not enough, are forthcoming here.
It's not Carol Levy's fault. She's an actress of modest talent and isn't stunning by modern Hollywood standards but her speech and her movements are fluid and graceful, giving her a certain appeal, no matter how stupid the scene happens to be.
This comes from Radley Metzger and so we expect a lot of sex. And there is some nudity and simulated coitus. It doesn't compare to what's available on some late-night cable TV channels today, and its dainty quality isn't made up for by much sparkle in the dialog.
I'd like to recommend it, if only because Levy has such big blue eyes, but I can't imagine an audience for it.
What follows is mostly predictable. In Monaco, Audrey is seduced by various men and women. Back in New York, Lucy pretends to be Audrey but fails miserably, showing up at an elegant party in a tiny bathing suit.
No need to go on with the plot. This switching of identities business is pretty hoary stuff. It was the subject of Shakespeare's first play -- and HE stole it from the Greeks. But this plot is as common as it is because it provides so many opportunities for laughs. Some, but not enough, are forthcoming here.
It's not Carol Levy's fault. She's an actress of modest talent and isn't stunning by modern Hollywood standards but her speech and her movements are fluid and graceful, giving her a certain appeal, no matter how stupid the scene happens to be.
This comes from Radley Metzger and so we expect a lot of sex. And there is some nudity and simulated coitus. It doesn't compare to what's available on some late-night cable TV channels today, and its dainty quality isn't made up for by much sparkle in the dialog.
I'd like to recommend it, if only because Levy has such big blue eyes, but I can't imagine an audience for it.
Metzger dubbed into French
lor_17 August 2011
I recently saw this film on video, and it turns out to be merely the French-dubbed version of Radley Metzger's THE PRINCESS AND THE CALL GIRL.
Light and frothy, but not sexy enough by a long shot, film is hardly among the maestro's better efforts, though the French dubbing credited to Gerard Loubeau is very well done in terms of lip-synch. Given the glamorous Monte Carlo setting to which our leading lady Carol Levy is whisked away to, the French track fits, and perhaps was considered an improvement by Continental audiences.
Levy is a striking actress whose very unfamiliarity (she never got a career going) is a plus. One suspects Metzger was in a quandary by the time this film was produced in the burgeoning VHS era, as he had been used to being a trailblazer in erotica since his distribution efforts of the early 1960s right through to his classic Henry Paris hardcore films of the mid-'70s. Resulting PRINCESS (or call it MISS JONES) emerges as neither fish nor fowl and definitely derriere garde when it comes to porn.
Light and frothy, but not sexy enough by a long shot, film is hardly among the maestro's better efforts, though the French dubbing credited to Gerard Loubeau is very well done in terms of lip-synch. Given the glamorous Monte Carlo setting to which our leading lady Carol Levy is whisked away to, the French track fits, and perhaps was considered an improvement by Continental audiences.
Levy is a striking actress whose very unfamiliarity (she never got a career going) is a plus. One suspects Metzger was in a quandary by the time this film was produced in the burgeoning VHS era, as he had been used to being a trailblazer in erotica since his distribution efforts of the early 1960s right through to his classic Henry Paris hardcore films of the mid-'70s. Resulting PRINCESS (or call it MISS JONES) emerges as neither fish nor fowl and definitely derriere garde when it comes to porn.
Princess and the Call Girl
BandSAboutMovies3 December 2023
Warning: Spoilers
For his last movie, Radley Metzger - Gérard Loubeau is credited - chose to adapt the French story Frontispiece by Pierre Serbie, which is a lot like Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper. Carol Levy (Alone In the Dark) plays the twin roles of Audrey Swallow and Lucy Darling, two women who are as different as they look alike.
One of them is a virginal girl about to married and in need of experience; the other is a high class call girl. As you can imagine, everyone gets what they want, even if getting back to switch places in time proves somewhat of a difficult proposition.
Originally playing on The Playboy Channel, this is a return to the softcore films that Metzger was known for and not his Henry Paris films in the 70s and early 80s. You may also find it as The Fantasies of Ms. Jones.
One of them is a virginal girl about to married and in need of experience; the other is a high class call girl. As you can imagine, everyone gets what they want, even if getting back to switch places in time proves somewhat of a difficult proposition.
Originally playing on The Playboy Channel, this is a return to the softcore films that Metzger was known for and not his Henry Paris films in the 70s and early 80s. You may also find it as The Fantasies of Ms. Jones.
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