DVDfever.co.uk - Charts, News and Reviews of DVDs, Games, Hardware, Laserdiscs, Cinema Films & more
DVDfever.co.uk - Charts, News and Reviews of DVDs, Games, Hardware, Laserdiscs, Cinema Films & more

This Week's Highlights
Fracture
Moby:
Last Night Remixed
Prison Break:
Season 4 Episode 10
Quantum of Solace
New music charts
w/e 22.11.08
New DVD comps
David Morrissey is
the next Doctor?
@ DVDfever Youtube

Last updated
Nov 20 2008

Xbox Gamertag:
DVDfever co uk

Kung Fu Panda
Just £14.98!

DVD / Blu-ray

Doctor Who
Series 4
Just £52.49!

Benidrom
Series 2
Just £12.98!
Series 2 /
Series 1 & 2

V:
Complete Collection
Just £28.98!


Why Donate?

News & Views
Discussion Forum
News Archive
Announcements
All About Us
Email Dom
Write 4 DVDfever
Competitions
Music Charts
Chart Archive
Cinema: Whats on
Cinema Reviews
Press Releases
TV Issues

DVD List
R1 DVD Reviews
R2 DVD Reviews
R3-6 DVD Reviews
CD Reviews
PS2 Reviews
PSP Reviews
Xbox Reviews
Xbox 360 Reviews
Gamecube Revs
GBA Reviews
PC Reviews
Hardware Revs
Concert Reviews
Video Reviews
Comedy Reviews
Book Reviews
Screenplay Reviews
Movie Downloads
Interviews
TV Shows
PSX Reviews
N64 Reviews
Dreamcast Revs
Laserdisc Revs
Short Stories
DVDs In Brief

Right To Reply
Why Widescreen?
DVD Links
Music Links
WS Video List
WS PAL LD List

Me and my
Aortic Valve!

Dom Robinson reviews

Felicity

She ain't Mama's little girl no more!

Distributed by
Severin Films

Cover

  • Cert:
  • Running time: 94 minutes
  • Year: 1979
  • Pressing: 2008
  • Region(s): 0, NTSC
  • Chapters: 24 plus extras
  • Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0
  • Languages: English
  • Subtitles: None
  • Widescreen: 1.85:1
  • 16:9-Enhanced: Yes
  • Macrovision: Yes
  • Disc Format: DVD 9
  • Price: £14.99
  • Extras: Trailer, Intimate Still Gallery, Audio Commentary
  • Vote and comment on this film:

  • Director:

      John D. Lamond (The ABC of Love and Sex: Australia Style, Australia After Dark, Breakfast in Paris, Felicity, Killing Time 24/7, Nightmares, North of Chianyg Mai, Pacific Banana, True Files)

    Producers:

      John D. Lamond and Russell Hurley

    Screenplay:

      John D. Lamond

    Cast :

      Felicity: Glory Annen
      Miles: Chris Milne
      Me Ling: Joni Flynn
      Jenny: Jody Hanson
      Christine: Marilyn Rodgers
      Stephen: Gordon Charles
      Adrian: John Michael Howson
      Andrew: David Bradshaw
      Nun: Christine Calcutt
      Bathhouse girl 1: Angela Menzies-Wills
      Bathhouse girl 2: Sarah Lee
      Peeping Tom Gardener: John D. Lamond


Felicity (Glory Annen) is a well-to-do English girl who lives in a convent and learns that she has lesbian leanings from a young age, partly with her friend Jenny (Jody Hanson). In fact, she also discovers that her body is attractive to both men and women and so becomes a frequent exhibitionist.

Shortly after the film begins, Felciity is off to Hong Kong to spend the summer holidays with family friend, Christine (Marilyn Rodgers) and her husband Stephen (Gordon Charles), but just 35 minutes in she gets whisked away by her new Asian friend, Me Ling (Joni Flynn) for an experience she'll never forget in an oriental bathhouse.

And that's just the start of her awakening in a film where everyone has slow sex to soft music in the background, except for the time where she starts chatting to a pervy older guy called Andrew (David Bradshaw) with the most hideous moustache ever, before he takes her for a drive in his flash car and then all but rapes her, thus forming the losing of her virginity.


There's a scene of Felicity trying on several different sets of underwear, more Australians than I'd expect living in HK and everyone seems to drink orange juice. The latter two happen when she spends a few days with new lover Miles (Chris Milne) before he has to take a job in a place the name of which I quickly forgot, but at least they had a good time together.

In this film there's a fair bit of sex between men and women, but then this was a time before AIDS became well-publicised - and before casual pregnancy, presumably... and the acting isn't exactly of stellar standards - in fact, at times Glory Annen sounds as stilted like Fizz from Eldorado!

Quality-wise, the picture is presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen but certainly shows the problems you'd expect of a 30-year-old soft-porn picture with its soft appearance, but while there's rarely any picture anomolies, it does occasionally look a bit washed out.

For extras, there's a Trailer (3:38), also in anamorphic 1.85:1, an Intimate picture gallery with 19 pictures and an audio commentary with Glory Annen and the director John Lamond, in which Glory says she was meant to be Australian, but ended up sounding English.

The main menu contains an excerpt from the film's theme with a static background. There are no subtitles on the disc which is a shame, but the disc contains 24 chapters which is great.


FILM CONTENT
PICTURE QUALITY
SOUND QUALITY
EXTRAS



OVERALL

Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2008.

[Up to the top of this page]

DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TXW32R4 32" widescreen TV connected to either a Creative Dxr2 DVD-ROM player or Microsoft Xbox and played through a Sony STR-DB930 amplifier.

PC games reviewed by the editor are on:

  • Since Nov 2005: Intel Pentium D 830 3.0Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 128Mb nVidia GeForce 6700XL, Windows XP
  • Since Aug 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.66Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb GeForce4 MX440 graphics, Windows XP
  • Since May 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.6Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb ATI Radeon 9600TX graphics, Windows XP
  • Since Jun 2002: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, 64Mb ATI Radeon 8500LE
  • Since May 2000: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, Voodoo 3 3000 AGP