Jerome Tanner and his intentionally misspelled Tennervision label represent a forgotten source of well-made Adult Cinema features, as evidenced in this 3rd volume of a fine series, boasting a great cast. Rediscovering them on DVD is no problem, though few fans venture into the turn of this century past, preferring to sample brand-new releases instead.
Sophie Evans is cast as an art gallery curator in the familiar Rod Serling "Night Gallery" structure, with visitors gazing at (not shown) paintings which inspire explicit sex vignettes as fantasies involving them.
This permits Tanner to indulge in various period settings and costumes to bring the usual sexual positions and generic humping to life with enough variety to differentiate his content from the ephemeral "all-sex" junk of most of his competitors.
For example, a fabulous Irish lass, with big natural breasts and a lilting accent, Scotti Andrews teams up with Dale DaBone (affecting a convincing Cockney accent) for a quality period vignette that features bondage, anal sex and even a d.p. utilizing a dildo in addition to Dale's dick.
Tanner indulges in a cute black & white Silent Movie set-up, with subtitles instead of inter-titles for the dialog, featuring a NonSex cameo by Evan Stone as a dastardly villain as Joel Lawrence saves heroine Nikita Denise from his clutches. Typical of porn, the scene turns into color when the humping begins, and unfortunately does not let Nikita entertain us with her fabulous accent.
Inevitably Sophie gets down for the finale, ball-gagged as a group of extras admire her nude form as living art, before she gets serviced by Chris Cannon. Most of the scenes are performed bareback, but Chris wears a rubber in his. I was pleased to see the extras get a screen credit - wishing that all pornographers were as fair to the NonSex performers who usual toil with zero recognition for their efforts.
Sophie Evans is cast as an art gallery curator in the familiar Rod Serling "Night Gallery" structure, with visitors gazing at (not shown) paintings which inspire explicit sex vignettes as fantasies involving them.
This permits Tanner to indulge in various period settings and costumes to bring the usual sexual positions and generic humping to life with enough variety to differentiate his content from the ephemeral "all-sex" junk of most of his competitors.
For example, a fabulous Irish lass, with big natural breasts and a lilting accent, Scotti Andrews teams up with Dale DaBone (affecting a convincing Cockney accent) for a quality period vignette that features bondage, anal sex and even a d.p. utilizing a dildo in addition to Dale's dick.
Tanner indulges in a cute black & white Silent Movie set-up, with subtitles instead of inter-titles for the dialog, featuring a NonSex cameo by Evan Stone as a dastardly villain as Joel Lawrence saves heroine Nikita Denise from his clutches. Typical of porn, the scene turns into color when the humping begins, and unfortunately does not let Nikita entertain us with her fabulous accent.
Inevitably Sophie gets down for the finale, ball-gagged as a group of extras admire her nude form as living art, before she gets serviced by Chris Cannon. Most of the scenes are performed bareback, but Chris wears a rubber in his. I was pleased to see the extras get a screen credit - wishing that all pornographers were as fair to the NonSex performers who usual toil with zero recognition for their efforts.