Sweet Surrender

Having just watched PRIZED POSSESSION, I assumed that SWEET SURRENDER was also directed by Richard Mailer, given the sameness of cast, storyline and even style. It's credited to fictitious Dirk Milford, and isn't as good as PP was.

Previous film was about magazine publishing; this one centers on book publishing. Wise guy Roger Caine thinks the world is waiting for his life story about sexual conquests titled "Stoop to Conquer", so as he tells a femme publisher his pitch, we see illustrated sexual flashbacks. Climax is obvious and not as funny as Mailer/Milford intended.

One scene that should have become dated nearly 40 years later has not: Dave Ruby has a scam where he guards a hotel room, and asks groupie Samantha Fox to hump him on camera so that Mick Jagger inside the room can pre-screen whether he'd like to meet Fox. She agrees, and upon entering the room later finds it outfitted simply with speakers simulating the sound of the Stones practicing inside. How did these pornographers know that Mick would be ageless and still performing (pun intended) into his Seventies?