Blue Money

Decent flick

A peek behind the curtain of the adult movie industry pre-legalization. Directed by its main star, Alain Patrick, Blue Money (1972) deals with Jim Dasal (Alain Patrick) trying to balance making *** films, his family life, evading the police and an affair with a new actress. It is a very enjoyable experience. It was great seeing actress Inga Maria, from The Cut-Throats (1969), again. The performances from the cast were all great. The bonus feature, The Affairs of Aphrodite, was a great addition to the release!

I hope VS can also release 1972's Love on Wheels, directed by Carlos Tobalina and starring Inga Maria.

Yearning to make real films in early 1970s Hollywood, California, 25-year-old French-Canadian Jim DeSalle gets caught up in the adult film industry, trying to support himself and his wife Lisa (Barbara Caron), with their Baby. They seem to have the perfect life, but it all falls apart. Threat comes in the form of surveillance transmissions scattered around "Blue Money," building toward rumor of an upcoming bust, threatening to ruin Jim. It's awfully strange to watch the feature attempt to create a heart, teasing complexity with Jim's martial entanglements and professional ruin, but the filmmaking isn't strong enough to inspire sympathy. "Blue Money" ends up scattershot and empty when it comes to a human perspective, but the grinding gears of the adult industry often save the viewing experience, giving outsiders a peek behind the curtain to witness as much humiliation going on behind the camera as there is in front of one.

I'm a sucker for films about making films, and if you make that a film about making 'blue' films I'm all in!

Entertaining watch