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Ras Kean plays private eye Harry "Frosty" Knight, an NYC private eye in the tradition of Sam Spade, Phillip Marlowe and Mike Hammer, who must find a missing young man who is heir to a fortune from his politician father, but Kean finds out soon enough that the missing person case is more than that, since he finds himself framed for murder.

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Mr. Frosty Knight, (not so) private dick, awakens in the hospital face all bandaged up and suffering from a case of amnesia. He slowly remembers what happened as he lays in the hospital bed. Turns out he was tasked with finding the missing brother of a comely young lass. The story itself is quite bland and the premise was done much better by John Holmes in his &#39;Johnny Wadd&#39; films, however any film with Jennifer Welles is not completely without merit. Although, ultimately the film&#39;s a disappointment. The Goods: 6 sex scenes (5 M/F, 1 M/F/M/F/F orgy) My Grade: C-

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Expose Me, Lovely

EXPOSE ME, LOVELY is a porn movie version of the 1941 film,LADY IN THE LAKE in which Ras Kean plays private eye Harry &quot;Frosty&quot; Knight,a NYC private eye in the tradition of Sam Spade, Phillip Marlowe and Mike Hammer,who must find a missing young man who is heir to a fortune from his politician father, but Kean finds out soon enough that the missing person case is more than that,since he finds himself framed for murder. Of course being a 70&#39;s porn film, the plot is secondary to the explicit sex scenes, but director Armond Weston who also wrote the script, directs both the plot which has many scenes from the point of view of the private eye(just like LADY IN THE LAKE) with flashbacks and the many sex scenes in a very artsy film noir manner that makes this film in my opinion,an almost perfect adult film for couples and not only for horny males. If you expect a wall to wall sex film or a Johnny Wadd type film, you&#39;ll be disappointed but if you want some good plotting with decent acting(except for Kean) with your sex,then this film is right up your alley. The best sex scene is Kean with porn legend Jennifer Welles(the original MILF) whose scene also reveals the answer to the mystery. Other porn stars in the film are Annie Sprinkles, Jody Maxwell(the Singing Fellatrix), Catherine Burgess( here as Cary Lacy), Bobby Astyr and 70&#39;s transsexual star Eve Adams. In my opinion, this is Weston&#39;s best XXX 70&#39;s film and don&#39;t believe the bad review given by the first reviewer on this board, who obviously likes the kind of wall to wall raunchy XXX sex films that are being made today. Do yourself a favor and take a chance in seeing this porn classic from the Golden Age of Porn.

One of adult&#39;s finest excursions into classic film noir territory, peopled by down at heel gumshoes and shady dames with hidden agendas, that had its Hollywood heyday throughout the &#39;40s. A bit of a backhanded compliment perhaps as porn rarely made much of an effort to recreate the genre&#39;s uniquely downbeat universe fueled by the cynical moral flexibility found in the writing of potboiler auteurs such as Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. Anthony Spinelli went all the way, right down to the period trappings, with DIXIE RAY, Hollywood STAR. Bob Chinn&#39;s Johnny Wadd series ultimately owed more to &#39;70s TV cop shows but made occasionally effective use of unmistakable noir elements, especially THE JADE PUSSYCAT which explicitly referenced John Huston&#39;s THE MALTESE FALCON and was one of few adult adaptations thereof not to have the artifact turn out to be some jewel-encrusted joy toy ! The late Armand Weston belted up for the big time with this one, hot on the heels of the unsettling duet of DEFIANCE and TAKING OF Christina which pertain to the traditional &quot;roughie&quot; terrain of Shaun Costello and Joe Davian as the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to bathroom stall graffiti. Much more than a dry run for his epic TAKE OFF, this carefully constructed mystery pays homage to the acknowledged noir essentials, lifting its title off Chandler&#39;s FAREWELL, MY LOVELY previously filmed with Dick Powell playing Philip Marlowe as MURDER, MY SWEET and recently revived under its original moniker with the more plausible Bob Mitchum. Plotwise it owes more to The Big Sleep, with its dying old man seeking to make amends with his outrageous offspring, and even LADY IN THE LAKE&#39;s botched experiment of showing events unfold from detective Robert Montgomery&#39;s POV is briefly referenced in the opening sequence. Hunky Ras Kean, who drifted in &#39;n&#39; out of adult movies in little over a year and appeared in under a dozen titles the most famous of which obviously Metzger&#39;s OPENING OF MISTY BEETHOVEN, shows surprising acting chops in a rare lead as seedy private eye Frosty Knight, postponing a paying assignment from distraught socialite Karen Spencer (Catherine Burgess) to make out with pretty pickup Sunshine. A textbook Hitchcock blonde, Karen commissions him to track down the whereabouts of her missing brother Keith at the behest of their father, a retired Southern senator now at death&#39;s door. Seems the two had a major falling out over some of sonny boy&#39;s more questionable lifestyle choices. Although Karen convinces Frosty to take the case in time-honored fashion by revealing her cool exterior as mere facade, all is not as it seems. As was her wont, Burgess (star of Jonas Middleton&#39;s cult favorite THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS) employed the services of a body double for the penetration stuff but you would never guess from Weston&#39;s expert editing. Slow to catch on to the fact that he&#39;s being set up as a patsy, Frosty&#39;s off to the races. Keith&#39;s erstwhile roommate, a cheap hooker named Lori (Eve Adams), claims she hasn&#39;t seen him for months as Frosty interrupts her servicing of two bit hoodlum Bobby Astyr, essaying the role with characteristic feistiness. Erotic artist Terry Lawford, well-acted by the notoriously picky Jody Maxwell whose very presence could serve as a fornication film&#39;s seal of approval, has drawn several nude portraits of the missing man which mysteriously vanish from the scene of her inevitable violent death, fortunately not before planting one of her legendary hummers on Kean&#39;s engorged erectile tissue. Lured into a group scene by striking bald black cocktail waitress Yolanda Savalas whose sad-eyed roommate (Cecilia Gardner) had a non-reciprocated crush on Keith, Frosty&#39;s too busy to notice that little-seen Gardner passes on the penis to console her cravings alternating between girlfriends Savalas and Annie Sprinkle with DoP João Fernandes making the most out of the black on white skin contrast. In retrospect, Dawn&#39;s Sapphic tendencies will prove an important if possibly incidental (dictated by a performer&#39;s personal proclivities ?) clue as to the mystery&#39;s denouement. Top-billed Jennifer Welles was the biggest &quot;name&quot; in the cast at the time but has relatively little screen time as Knight&#39;s ex-wife Shelly who provides valuable evidence through her affiliation with a journalist (character actor Todd Pembrooke) who has been digging in the past of Keith&#39;s high profile old man. Conveniently naked as she&#39;s trying to prepare for a night on the town, Welles finds more than her bathtub invaded by Kean in a scalding session highlighted by the same chemistry both shared in Howard Ziehm&#39;s SWEET CAKES. As something of a consolation prize for Jenny and her legion of fans, she strips under the opening credits. With the hand-held camera work of Fernandes adding an urgency to the proceedings cinematically well ahead of its time and legit rock musician Jack Justis (who scored many of Joe Sarno&#39;s flicks ranging from simulated to XXX) adding another criminally underrated soundtrack to his roster, technical credits are well covered. This was typical of Weston who had dabbled in just about all aspects of production over a lengthy if not particularly fruitful career and took great pride in his prowess which he never allowed to overwhelm the project as some overeager hot shot might have done.

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Expose Me, Lovely

Stick to the Johnny Wadd films

Great XXX Film Noir Porn Film of the mid 1970's

Noir Literally Stripped Down to the Bare Essentials

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