A mysterious pornographer going by the handle of "Seemore Doules" cranked out three titles at the end of the '60s: JENNIFER, MARINA and ELEANA, all with the same attractive leading ladies. I got on his odd wave length and truly enjoy this nonsense, but it's strictly a matter of taste.
Doules's m.o. is to shoot MOS, with tons of sexy femme narration applied on the soundtrack, the same gimmick that served Nick Millard for dozens of porn cheapies. In JENNIFER only two lines of dialog are spoken, a brief direct sound exchange between title Jennifer (almond-skinned Barbara Mysen) and her millionaire Wall Street-obsessed hubby Cosmo.
The film, which is right up to date in 1970 with its full-frontal nudity and simulated sex, concerns Jennifer's horniness, as she is true to her man, but he neglects her. Frequent flashbacks show her at age 18 as Jenny, played by a quite dissimilar looking but beautiful young actress Lisa Vern, falling in love with Cosmo, and having her first sexual experience with gal pal Amy Sue (buxom Athena Prezaki). When Cosmo wakes up on the couch and finds Jennifer vigorously masturbating in her sleep nearby on their bed in the final reel, instead of finally condescending to service her he masturbates too. I guess that was a Pavlovian signal to the raincoat brigade in the 1970 movie houses to get busy -it's now or never.
That is basically the entire movie, but all three female leads are terrific and worth the price of admission. The earlier companion film MARINA (in black & white) has exactly the same cast with different emphasis: in that one Prezaki as Marina is the lead and Mysen is demoted to nearly a bit part, but still sexy.
Lisa Vern, playing Jenny at 18, is a 100% prototype for Misty Mundae, the starlet who sold a lot of units as jail bait video queen about a decade ago. Irony is that Something Weird Video released JENNIFER and MARINA in the mid-'90s, while latter-day competitor Seduction Cinema created the Misty phenomenon seemingly unaware of these essential forerunners. Sort of re-inventing the wheel.
Watching these babes masturbate or simulate sex softcore style is a definite treat, and hopefully the missing link of the trio, ELEANA, will be found and reissued someday.
Biggest error in the production is the flashbacks to Jenny, age 18. A party scene with her getting felt up for the first time while dancing with Cosmo has peace signs dangling as decoration and long-haired boys, plus black-light psychedelic posters, all screaming the '60s. Given that Cosmo and the MILF version of Jennifer appear to be in their late Thirties or even Forties, the flashbacks should have been styled to suggest Truman or Eisenhower-era Americana instead.
Like Nick's horrible voice-overs, the purple prose of the narration here is a drawback, as in when Jennifer imagines having sex with an escaped tiger -I'll spare you her idiotic "trying to sound sexy" references. The music track alternates library music of the suspenseful or romantic variety, with good old strip joint backups like "Harlem Nocturne".