Mona (also promoted as Mona; the Virgin Nymph) is a 1970 American pornographic film directed by Michael Benveniste and Howard Ziehm, produced by Bill Osco, and starring Judy Angel, Gerard Broulard, Orrin North, Susan Stewart and Fifi Watson. The film was screened without credits due to legal concerns.[2] It is regarded as the second sexually explicit film to receive a general theatrical release in the United States, after Andy Warhol's Blue Movie (1969). However, unlike Blue Movie (which was shot without a script), Mona had a plot, though there was more emphasis on the action.[3]
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| Written by | Bucky Searles |
| Produced by | Bill Osco |
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| Cinematography | Howard Ziehm |
Production company | Graffiti Productions |
| Distributed by | Sherpix |
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Running time | 71 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $7,000 (est.)[1] |
| Box office | $2 million (est.) |
Mona helped pave the way for other films containing unsimulated sex scenes (both penetrative and non-penetrative) that subsequently appeared in theaters, during the Golden Age of Porn (1969–1984); and was a big influence on later films of the genre. Deep Throat (1972), for example, borrowed elements of Mona's plot.[4]
Earnings, believed to be $2 million, helped finance the directors' 1974 film Flesh Gordon. The team also produced Harlot (1971), and Osco later backed the similarly explicit Alice in Wonderland (1976).
Plot
editMona (Fifi Watson) and her fiancé Jim (Orrin North) are having a picnic, and they both strip and began to make love, but she halts him claiming that she had promised her mother (Judy Angel) that she would not have intercourse until marriage. However, she joyfully performs fellatio on Jim. When she comes home, her mother reminds her of her promise and that the mother as well had been a virgin before marrying her father, who had been a good man. Then Mona remembers being little and wanting to play with her father (who is only to be seen from the hip downwards), who urges her to perform fellatio on him. Going outside again, she again performs fellatio, on a complete stranger. Afterward, a prostitute (Susan Stewart) performs cunnilingus on her. Jim, on the other hand, stops by Mona's house and has sex with her mother. In a movie theatre, Mona masturbates and performs fellatio on a nearby male patron (Gerard Broulard). Jim catches them and tells her that he will punish her by calling all the people she had oral sex with. Jim ties Mona to a bed, and all of her previous partners surround her and engage in a very long, intense oral sex party. At the end of the film, Mona and her mother both confess their sexual affairs.
Cast
edit- Judy Angel (Uncredited) as Mona's mother
- Gerard Broulard (Uncredited) as movie theater patron
- Orrin North (Uncredited) as Jim
- Susan Stewart (Uncredited) as a prostitute
- Fifi Watson (Uncredited) as Mona
References
edit- ^ "Budget". IMDB. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
- ^ "Flesh Gordon Interview 3". PicPal.com. Archived from the original on August 28, 2008. Retrieved July 16, 2013.
- ^ "Pornography". Pornography Girl. Archived from the original on May 6, 2008. Retrieved July 16, 2013.
The first explicitly pornographic film with a plot that received a general theatrical release in the U.S. is generally considered to be Mona (Mona the Virgin Nymph)...
- ^ "Sex in Cinema: 1970 Greatest and Most Influential Erotic / Sexual Films and Scenes". Film Site. p. 21. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
This film's storyline was borrowed, to some degree, by Gerard Damiano's Deep Throat (1972).