Entry 104: Oriental Blue (1975)

Oriental Blue (1975)

Dir: Bill Miling



It's a few days late, but tonight Fuck Flick February ends with a bang (pun ABSOLUTELY intended)!  Lube yourself up, toss on your best kimono and join me in the Basement of Sleaze for the gloriously un-PC-titled Oriental Blue! 

This picture opens with some great, authentic '70's 42nd Street footage before introducing us to "dragon lady" Madame Blue (Peonies Jong), who runs an underground NYC brothel.  Blue enjoys an "impeccable reputation" for supplying "product" to the WBA (World Brothel Association, naturally).  She keeps her "product" stocked by kidnapping young women off of the seedy, late-night streets of NYC, then making then drink her ancient-recipe "love juice" herbal tea, at which point they instantly transform into insatiable fuck fiends.  In order to keep the "merchandise" satisfied between Johns (or before being shipped off to other WBA-member locales), she employs stud Antonio (Tony Richards, from Abel Ferrera's 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy) to keep them "occupied (what a rough gig!)."  Because this malicious madame also has a thing for the ladies, she also occasionally coerces them into lesbian encounters and/or three-way trysts with her ("You're my complete whore, and you get anything you want.").  She employs "brutal, hard man" Rocky (Ashley Moore) to acquire a "negress" that she can "really sink my teeth into."  A WBA representative, Max (Bobby Astyr), that stops by for a conference manages to find time for a three way with Blue and her "best slave" Angel (C.J. Lang).  Blue is troubled by rogue agent Brock (porno legend Jamie Gillis, looking A LOT like Elliot Gould here), who threatens her empire by refusing to conform to the rules ("My cock isn't for sale...Nobody tells me who to fuck.").  Brock brings a down-on-her-luck Nebraska girl, Antea (Bree Anthony), back to his abandoned-theatre home/sex lair, drugs her with "love juice" and forces her into a three-way with his friend Antonio while Linda Ronstadt's original version of "You're No Good" plays on the soundtrack (I find it VERY hard to believe that the producers paid for the music rights).  Brock has an epiphany, falls in love with Antea and refuses to turn her over to Blue.  Blue pays a visit to another of her agents, Stefan (Stephen Lark), a Frenchman who looks and dresses like Dr. Strange and tasks him with "recruiting" a French girl for the WBA; after finding and seducing one ("Do you want to go somewhere and fuck or something?"), he has sex with her in a neon-lit abandoned theatre while the camera occasionally quickly cuts to neon-lit dildos (this is the best-shot scene in the film, and clearly predicted '80's music videos).  Brock is forced to give up Antea when Blue threatens to kill Antonio; when Brock relents, Blue gives Antea some "love juice:" "Now you will become MY sex slave!"  In a montage sequence, a vengeful Brock has rough sex with Angel while Blue seduces Antea, but Blue also falls in love with the Nebraska nymphette.  At this point, Max shows up again and forcibly has sex with Antea to the strains of the Beatles' "Hey Bulldog (again, most certainly unlicensed)."  Brock shows up, beats up Max, rescues Antea and kills Blue (but naturally, as this is a porno flick, not before having sex with her first).  As her last act before dying, Blue kisses Brock with a cyanide capsule, and Antea and Max decide to inherit her empire.

Oriental Blue is pretty standard seventies porno fare, but it's elevated by a solid performance from Gillis (who was a classically-trained actor before becoming a porn star), occasionally decent cinematography and some excellent, shot-on-location NYC footage.  It's not particularly sexy or erotic, and is recommended for sleaze enthusiasts only (naturally, I own a copy).