(1973)

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Running coke for John Holmes
Woodyanders23 June 2016
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Scuzzy Las Vegas drug dealer Mario (an effectively slimy portrayal by the legendary John Holmes) blackmails lovely young lass Snow into selling $100,000 dollars worth of cocaine in only one week's time. However, Snow comes up with a plan to get revenge on Mario for forcing her to peddle dope for him.

The absorbing story moves along at a snappy pace while the tone retains suitably sordid throughout. Naturally, the folks Snow sells blow to are a pretty scummy bunch of dirty longhairs and degenerates who provide the bulk of the arousing and energetic sex scenes, with a torrid threesome between two hippie dudes and a pretty brunette chick rating as a definite raunchy highlight. Moreover, Holmes does the deed with a foxy slender redhead and winds up being tag teamed by two gals at the end. But it's the way Snow turns the tables on Mario by finding incriminating photos of him with his gay friends that adds a neat touch of rich irony to the proceedings since in real life Holmes wound up doing gay porn in order to support his nasty freebasing habit.
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Typical Holmes vehicle
lor_16 February 2011
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The Comeuppance would be a better title for this routine John Holmes porn film. It is presented anonymously from a theatrical outfit named Playmate Films and evidently served as grind-house fodder in the day.

Holmes, with longish hair and facial hair too, comfortably plays the villain Mario, a Vegas drug dealer who blackmails the hapless heroine into laying off $100,000 in cocaine for him, with just a week to dispose of the powder. It reminded me of the pivotal early scene in the late Ted Demme's movie BLOW, where Johnny Depp proves to be a speed demon in pushing his first big pot allocation, prior to moving up to coke. Demme's ironic real-life fate has a correlative for Holmes later in this film.

After servicing Holmes' big dick, she heads back to L.A. to peddle the stuff, throwing in some solid sex with her customers. Oddly only John delivers the money shots, perhaps a clause in his contract precluded the other guys from ejaculating for the camera (just kidding).

SPOILERS AHEAD:

Okay final reel has her returning to Vegas with the cash but a devious plan to outwit the wary Mario. She presents him with two young girls, and after they deliver the requisite "shock & awe" reaction shot to first sight of his big member, Mario is happily ensconced in a XXX threesome while she searches his bedroom, finding incriminating blackmail film and photos.

Film ends with her "gotcha" message written in lipstick on his mirror: "I've got the film - also photos of you & faggot pals. Goodbye!!, Snow." I guess her name was Snow, but the import of this parting shot presages Holmes' real-life fate, dabbling in gay porn, suffering from drug addiction, even pushing drugs and (couldn't be forecast even by Nostradamus back in '73) ultimately dying of AIDS. A sorry postscript to a basically flippant porn effort.
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