Heart Breaker

"Heartbreaker" doesn't follow the usual rules of Adult Cinema, keeping the viewer guessing for a trim hour and fifteen minutes, representing one out of hundreds of examples of the talent of the late, great Ron Sullivan/Henri Pachard.

It eventually develops into lifestyle porn, showing the activities of Swingers long before today's pretentious "polyamory" movement, but how the filmmaker develops and presents his material is what's interesting.

Mysterious opening scene has Lana Sands (in voice-over) fending off her boyfriend's advances when driven home, but in sinister fashion he shows up in her bathroom to hump her. T.T. Boy is his usual malevolent self, but what might have been forced sex or cause for a Roughie a couple of decades earlier is satisfying to the flat-chested, exotic Lana. She is incorrectly credited as Lana Woods.

Male lead Jonathan Morgan (not his elderly father, as some idiot listed this title in IMDb with "Jonathan Morgan Sr." a the cast member, just fixed today by me) is introduced cryptically by T.T. telling Lana after his money shot: "Shhh, don't wake up Nick".

As Nick, Morgan is an interior designer/contractor, soon shown on the job (in a flashback) creating what looks like a movie set, with director Pachard in a noisy unbilled cameo as a carpenter. Ariana is shooting still photos of the workmen, and Morgan humps her. One of the workmen jerks off and delivers a money shot on Lana's ass after Morgan gives her a facial. This all turns out to be merely a sexual day-dream by Morgan.

The relationships of the characters are kept under wraps (creating some suspense), as star Kylie Ireland runs off, and Lana, dildo in hand, tries to get Morgan to service her, but instead she has to make do with Alex Sanders in the next room. In most porn films, then and now, I would ascribe this odd structure to either sloppiness or regression to all- sex, but Pachard has several tricks up his sleeve.

Kylie insists that Morgan join her in having sex with other people watching (or vice versa), and invites over a prostitute friend of hers named Billie, played by a young and very alluring Shelby Stevens. They end up with a very odd couple: Ian Daniels nicknamed by his wife "Asshole" (or alternately "Bad Boy"), a sort of retarded sex-machine who humps Stevens, while Kylie & Morgan watch. The wife is uncredited, but gives the film's best performance, a strange dominant who likes to berate her husband (he loves it), and masturbates while watching him go at with another woman, becoming tearful and sobbing by the time he climaxes. This "I like to watch" theme used to be extremely popular in porn, and Pachard milks it here for all its worth.

Poor credits are always annoying, and as best as I could identify the wife was played by Nikki Sinn.

Finale is really strange, set in a bathroom with folks humping in the bathtub, all staged realistically and continuing the feature's heavy emphasis on pantomime. It finishes the show on a upbeat note, and demonstrates how these oversexed swingers enjoy themselves. I expected dramatics and negativity, but was pleasantly surprised that the suffering and unhappy endings so popular with serious porn (softcore and hardcore) in the '60s and '70s was avoided.