Musical Interlude: I caught a snatch of this while shopping the other day, and it stuck with me. One of those tunes we've all heard at one point or another, one of the most popular instrumentals of all time. Here's a vintage live performance, introduced by Dick Clark!
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Debbie Does Dallas (1978) Review
There it is… There it is… Aaaaand, we’re done.This movie has a sort of “lore” associated with it, which is not uncommon for porno films, especially ones from this era, but this one is particularly notorious for it. Aside from the fact that it arose during the peak of the ‘Golden Age of Porn’ in the late 70’s, where girls were hairy, dudes were not all packing 9 inch dicks, and plot (however vacuous it was) was actually important to the film, it also featured a porn actress who seemingly had a lot of talent (IE, she had a great pair of tits and a nice ass) who only did a handful of films before tragically dying from a drug overdose. Of those handful of films, they were not one, but two sequels to said porno, “Debbie Does Dallas”. The real truth is that she vanished from the industry, and reportedly she was tracked down by a private detective hired by Jim Clark (The director), where it turns out she was simply living her life out in the midwest and did not want to be disturbed nor return to “film-making”. How quaint.
There is also the rumor that this film was shot guerilla style on a real University campus, having sex and filming nude scenes in the public between classes. The reality is that the producers alerted the alumni that they were filming. What they said they were filming, I cannot determine, but I can pretty safely say they most likely did not say they were filming a pornographic movie about students fucking.
Anyway, this is one of the big hitters from that era, having sold tens of thousands of copies and being one of the biggest successes, if not the biggest, the year it came out, in terms of X-Rated cinema. The old urban myth of the sudden rise and success of VHS players was claimed to have been in part to the fact that people were buying them to watch this at home, although this little myth has some truth to it, though it is more-so the fact that adult cinema itself was the reason for a lot of VHS player sales, not just this movie.
Now what kind of golden nugget are we talking about here? A group of 16 year old girls (All actresses were in their early 20’s while filming this) want to help their friend, Debbie, travel to Dallas to tryout to become a professional cheerleader, since her parents will not help her pay for her travel expenses and hotel stay.
I hope you like locker room scenes, because that’s where we’re going to spend a good portion of the film.So what is a hot young girl in a town full of pervy old men supposed to do to earn an honest buck?
Well, the girls go on the wonderful journey of picking up odd-jobs all around the town to earn enough money to help their dear sweet friend Debbie achieve her dream! Unfortunately as they all find out, working sucks and they barely earn enough money to pay for Debbie, let alone themselves to go with her for moral support, so naturally they turn to the one thing that a girl can do to make money fast; prostitution. Yes, these 16 year old high school girls are going to let men leer, grope, and fuck them, to reach the lofty heights of helping their friend (Not even themselves achieving it) the opportunity to tryout to become a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader. I do not think their Business Ethics professors intended for this approach when they told them, “Really sell yourself”. Oh, wait, sorry, I am being informed by my Legal & Compliance Team that they are, in fact, not the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. They are the Dallas Cowgirls. Very important distinction.
So naturally, this opens the door to a slew of vignettes of each of the girls (Again, all actresses are legal age) fucking and sucking their way to paying for Debbie, and themselves, to go with her to Dallas. We get an assortment of scenes involving oral sex, vaginal sex, anal sex, some masturbatory scenes, groping scenes, and some casual nudity scenes, including plenty of upskirt shots.
The one thing this film does right, I will kindly say, is that it knows how to properly do framing and lighting. You can see what is happening, you know where it is happening, how it is happening, and when it is happening. You would be surprised how common of an issue these things are for pornos, or even just film in general. The upbeat soundtrack accompanying most of the film also lends a sort of light-hearted vibe to it, giving it that classic sex comedy tonal feel throughout, until the action really ramps up in specific scenes where it delves into this weird, alternative, metallic-sounding rock music that makes you feel a little uncomfortable.
Oh wait, here comes my favorite part!Unfortunately, that is all the nice things I have to say about it. The acting is awful. The girls look appropriate for high schoolers, but but their acting comes off as way too “innocent” and “youthful”, coming off almost like they are middle schoolers rather than juniors. Bambi Woods, the lead actress, is especially notorious for this, acting like a literal deer-in-headlights any time something sexual happens in the film, which at times is rather off-putting. And their blowjob skills are way too expertise to match the innocent virginity they are supposed to be portraying.
The men fill their roles adequately, although appear in it for the briefest of moments, with only a couple notable scenes featuring them in speaking roles which, they seem to have more charisma than the girls surprisingly. They mostly fill the roles of boys, football players, who are the boyfriends of the cheerleaders, and are being denied intimacy for whatever reason so the girls can focus on their “work”.
The cinematography is flat and boring. While that style works for most of the sex scenes, where we get blatant raw displays of sexual congress in the film, for the character and plot bits it makes everything add up to feeling like boring filler. Most of the film is just this wide-angled, flat, lingering take on the characters in the scenery, soaking up screen time, as we are carried from vignette to vignette. This makes all the scenes carrying you around from one erotic escapade to the other a chore to sit through, and a verifiable boner-killer.
Corporal punishment, in all of its glory.There is also the rather bold, or odd, inclusion of a fetishized spanking scene, which seems out of place. It occurs after one of the girls gets caught giving her boyfriend a blowjob in the library. Most of the scenes involve regular sex or oral, so this specific scene feels somewhat sudden, given the formal nature of the rest of the activities, but it is appreciated. If there was more fetishized content included rather than the girls just sucking and fucking, and doing more BDSM or hedonistic activities, it would fit with the theme, but I suppose the unpredictability of its inclusion heightens the eroticism, so you really cannot complain for seeing more young asses on the screen, especially when they are doing more than just getting plapped by another stray dick.
Which brings to mind the writing. My god, the writing. Innuendos that barely make sense, teases that are non-sequiturs, dirty talk that feels stunted and awkward, and a plot so paper thin, it is almost like it is not even there. Mr Greenfeld actually felt like one of the more believably written characters, with somewhat of a character arc as the store owner who hires Debbie, and is infatuated with her from the get-go, and is ironically the reason this whole movie starts. He wants to see her breasts, then grope them, then taste them, progressively paying more and more for each escalation, until she backs down and puts them away. She then goes on to give her friends a talk in the locker room about how she earned this money so fast. Later on, the film ends with Bambi dressed as a cheerleader, getting chased around by Mr Greenfeld in a football outfit, saying how he always wanted to play for the team and fuck the cheerleading captain, so this is him living out his fantasy in a way. Which, honestly, comes off as a little heart-warming. No, honestly.
Overall you have a hackneyed film that offers some rather well-shot and titillating hardcore sequences, with a nice bow-tied ending wrapping it all together. Not the worst porno I have ever seen, but definitely over-hyped and nothing particularly amazing nor breathtaking about it, unless you have a particular ‘thing’ for Bambi Woods, or any of her female co-stars. I will say, the stand-out sex scene with Bambi at the end, and the stellar blowjob scene in the library make it worth a watch at least once, aside from the historical significance of the film, but other than that, it’s not one that I would particularly find worth re-treading over and over again.
I’ll end this review with a highlight of the film, an excellently framed shot of Bambi Woods’ spectacular bush.
3/10
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