As a pornographer, "Claude Goddard" was versatile: the guy who directed the horrible attempted roughie WINTER HEAT also made this very friendly, amusing TEENAGE STEP-MOTHER. Not sure if he was "anyfhing for a buck" oriented, or trying to flex his muscles in different albeit always XXX genres.
The premise is ridiculous, as Darby Lloyd Rains in the title role is supposedly younger than her step-daughters, which she obviously is not, and a teenager, even sillier. Gimmick that she has to instantly make love every hour on the hour is run into the ground quickly and quite unnecessary for what follows.
Marc Stevens looks and acts silly as the preacher who marries Jamie Gillis to Rains, but his assistant/housekeeper Heather Ellis is a breath of fresh air, a rare beauty in porn with English accent. I had seen her in several films including LADY ON TOP and MY HUSBAND, THE PRODUCER, but she never made it to leading roles.
The daughters Leslie Murray (aka Lynn Stevens) and Sandi Foxx are frank about their incestuous lesbian relationship, a throwaway in the script. Director "Goddard" mixes and matches his cast in lengthy sex scenes, culminating in two orgies, one indoors and then one outdoors. Film's "surprise" ending is a comic riff on bestiality that sort of works, depending upon one's sense of humor.
Murray/Stevens, my favorite starlet from this era, gets top billing but her character is undeveloped and at one point daddy Gillis can't even remember her character's name. Rains is funny in the leading role.
Film represents an example of my newly-designated genre Jazz Porn, as during each sex scene a varied set of jazz tracks, ranging from funky to Latin, are played loudly, and often repeated to fill out the time of the scene. Overall the film overstays its welcome, running at least a reel too long. Running gag about the principals' character names being from Hamlet: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern starts off funny but is milked to death.
