The best Laurie Smith’s movies

While on a deep space mission, the crew of the U.S. Spaceship Voluptua come across another U.S. ship thought lost. It is actually being held captive on a planet ruled by a seductive woman leader. Other bits involve a clothing-optional samba party in Rio and the usual nude centerfold models.

Debee Ashby, Cindy Milo and Nickie Christie are in Barbados on location for the Electric Blue team. Meanwhile, Ricky Diamond is castaway on a desert island. Bad jokes and great tits ensue. In "Blind Date," Tamara (Tami Lee Curtis) is an ordinary Valley girl, whose mother (Carol Connors) sets her up on a blind date with nerdy Henry (Rick Savage). But Henry turns out to be an international spy, and the pair are whisked off on an adventure featuring a beautiful princess, a fabulous jewel, and the world's greatest Omar Sharif impersonator. Other briefer segments involve a nude disco, nude body painting and "Satin & Lace," a tongue-in-cheek look at lingerie covering the Elizabethan and Victorian eras.

The video is a series of short pieces of very buff nude people. The models don't speak, and the backgrounds are solid colors, with no decorations to let you know where the models are. So these nudes are, if not truly in limbo, certainly no place you can describe. In each short piece, the model is/models are performing some G-rated activity that shows off their body: a gymnast man works out on the hanging rings, two women hold in front of them a gauzy cloth that is being blown by an off-camera fan, a blonde runs a fluorescent tube down the length of her body, etc.

It's hard, in the year 2001, to remember what porn was like in the 70s. In this decade when pornstars are on TV, date movie stars, and are on album covers, the secret world of men in raincoats attending sleazy theaters is hard to imagine. Now most people see porn on their cable or on video or DVD. Once upon a time, though, it was a big deal for a porn star to hit the mainstream, and John Holmes did just that. With a 14 inch endowment and not so good looks, Holmes made thousands of movies and slept with thousands of women. He became well known for his Johnny Wadd series, where he was an international man of mystery and hardcore sex. Eventually he got heavily into drugs, got involved in a brutal murder, and finally died of AIDS.

Included in this softcore erotic video magazine are “Lay It Again, Sam” about a gumshoe (Marc Wallice) who gets a little too close with his client (Laurie Smith), “Sandy... Red Hot and Chauffeur Driven” with a model (Pippi Anderson) posing for a photographer (Nikki Randall) in a desert locale, “EB Reports - Personal Services” about a phone sex business that connects adult stars with fans and actors trying out for an adult fairly tale in "Cinderella Casting."

There are two main story lines here. The first is the T&A-filled "Sex Olympics XII" and the second is "Hollywood Vice," which follows a pair of female detectives trying to crack a disorganized crime ring in Miami. Erotic vignettes and centerfolds round out the tape.