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I remember when this was shown in reruns in the mid 80s on afternoon TV, didn't know it was part of an actual British series, "Hammer House of Mystery," but I remember the tagline in the TV Guide -- "A cuckold teaches his wife and her lover the meaning of high fidelity." Together with the title, to the point and also a great pun.

Rather flatly directed (a mystery TV series after all) but there's poison in its sting. Simple and reminiscent of Rod Sterling in which boringly corrupt people get what's coming to them, usually from equally unhappy people.

This is what might be called a "loop carrier," in which many scenes with different actors are stuck within a framing story. But director Howard Ziehm really makes the framing story work, and the segments are quite fantastic and offer a variety (in actors and kinks).

An early Jennifer Welles hardcore, she is an interviewer who talks with a publisher of an erotic magazine (played by Ras Kean, younger than her) - he relates various events he's photographed which cue extended scenes, including a 3-way in a barn with round and firm Serena and John Galt as a Civil War soldier (who also starred with her in "The Abduction of Lorelei" and was also married to her, I believe), a teenager who seduces the boy next door after school (Jean Dalton in braces and a schoolgirl getup to die for), and a lesbian-twin scene between Brooke and Taylor Young.

Between each story the chemistry between Kean and Welles heats up until the final scene in which they are so overtaken by the stories and the heat they fall into each other right there on the couch. The tension has been building throughout the film, and because it's been punctuated by strong sex scenes while being delayed you have the effect of having your(sweet) cake while eating it too.

And their scene together is great as well, Welles brings it as an older woman every time.