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• Actors: Harlee McBride, Peter Ratray, William Beckley, Ann Michelle, Joi Staton
• Directors: Alan Roberts
• Writers: D.H. Lawrence, Steve Michaels
• Producers: Alan Roberts, David Winters, Paul Brand, William B. Silberkleit
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Monterey Video
• DVD Release Date: November 13, 2001
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005QZ7J
• For more information about "Young Lady Chatterley" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Item Name: Young Lady Chatterley; Studio: Monterey Video

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Like `Emmanuelle' this movie belongs to a very short list of 70s sex farces that walked the line between titilation and comedy and managed to succeed as a tastefully tasteless movie. Eliminating the element of playfulness and fun from a movie whose primary function is sex means that you eliminate the danger of your movie looking foolish. I prefer movies that don't play it safe. The movie has become an underground classic among those who like sex in the movies but like to keep it soft core. Hard core pornography gets really old, really fast. `Young Lady Chatterly' has a connection with `Lady Chatterly's Lover' but I prefer this one because it's more farce then anything else. It stars Harlee McBride (later known as Mrs. Richard Belzer) as Cynthia Chatterly, Lady Chatterly's granddaughter who buys her grandmother's estate, finds her diary in a closet and begins to read up on ol' grams diddlings with a farmhand. This opens Cynthia's own sexual awareness and she begins the process of finding things to do around the house. In fact there are only a handful of actors in the movie that she doesn't have sex with. I'm not complaining simply because the sex scenes are not filmed that boring Hollywood tradition of having a lot of close-ups in slow-motion. The scenes are athletic, robust and far more titilating and leave a great deal to the imagination. Those scenes are nicely photographed showing and as much skin as possible while suggesting more then it really shows. The scenes range from hilarious to serious but never with a sense of exploitation and never with the laminated dullness of a Playboy video. `Young Lady Chatterly' is like curling up with a really trashy novel and smiling to yourself even when you shouldn't.

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101 of 105 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic 1970s softcore porn, October 15, 2002

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"nicktuba" (East Haven, CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Young Lady Chatterley (DVD)

"Young Lady Chatterley" is a goofy, smarmy, tongue-in-cheek classic of late 1970's soft-core porn. The movie stars a pre-breast-augmentation Harlee McBride (a.k.a. Mrs. Richard Belzer, Detective John Munch on NBC cop shows) as Cynthia Chatterley, the niece of Lady Constance Chatterley (the main character of the D.H. Lawrence book). After Cynthia inherits her late aunt's English estate, she leaves the big city to explore it for herself. Once there, she has sex with just about everything that moves... the chambermaids, a hitchhiker, visitors to her house, all culminating in a large gangbang-type orgy centered around a Victorian costume party.

The movie is tongue-in-cheek throughout. None of the actors (including Peter Ratray as the gardener with whom Cynthia conducts her frequent sexual liaisons) seem to be taking the material seriously, but this adds to the overall ambience of the film. Producer-Director Alan Roberts (who also helmed the lesser 1985 sequel, "Young Lady Chatterley II") keeps the camera away from possible revealing shots, and except for one early sex scene (in a flashback sequence), there is no frontal nudity.

Overall, in the world of great 70's soft-core porn, this ranks as a classic and guilty pleasure. Although tomboyish, Harlee McBride exudes raw sexuality and eroticism, especially in her strongest scene, in which she has graphic intercourse with a hitchhiker while riding in the back of a car. Unlike the 1985 sequel, McBride still has natural breasts and a non surgically-altered body, so we can believe she's really an heiress to a beautiful, sprawling English estate, and just not another porn star. I recommend watching the unrated version, which is available on this DVD.

Undoubtedly, many of you will remember seeing this film and its sequel on American cable TV networks in the late 1980's, which was when I first saw it. If so, this DVD will bring back memories of late-night classic porn on HBO and other networks. The DVD has a nostalgic feel to it, and the presentation is nice. Overall, this is a good, sexy movie for connoisseurs of the genre.

40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Dissapointing Re-Edit, April 26, 1999

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This review is from: Young Lady Chatterley [VHS] (VHS Tape)

During a recent discussion of erotic movies (not to be confused with Erotica) with a friend, we decided that this movie was one of our favorites and decided to order it. Having seen it only twice myself when it appeared on HBO in the late seventies, it remained in my memory as very erotic though not terribly well acted. The cut available (R rated) from this site is not the same cut I, nor my friend saw when viewed shortly after it's original release and I'm reasonably sure that even in it's raw, formative stages, HBO wasn't airing an X-rated version. If you're looking for the steamy, sexy version you remember, this aint it!

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Soft core classic, December 17, 2002

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N. Durham "Big Evil" (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Young Lady Chatterley (DVD)

This 1977 softcore extravaganza is one of the finest and most erotic softcore films ever made. Harlee McBride stars as Cynthia Chatterly, the title character of the film who after inheriting an estate decides to have sex with anything and everything that moves. The big shock of the film isn't the sex, it's the fact that the storyline is great for a softcore film, and the acting is as well. McBride and the chambermaids make this worth watching alone, and those who dig the good 'ol days of late night premium cable porn will love this classic.