Mississippi Mermaid (1969) stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve at the top of their game in a film written and directed by François Truffaut. It is based on the novel Waltz Into Darkness by William Irish, who also wrote the novel Rear Window was based on. If the novel sounds familiar, it may be because it was also the source material for the Jolie/Banderos soft core, Original Sin, from 2001. Indeed, it is the same story, except in unimportant details. What follows should be considered a spoiler. If you haven't seen either film, the plot line does contain some surprising twists.

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Belmondo owns a cigarette factory on Reunion Island, and is to marry a women he met through personal ads but has never seen. Deneuve shows up, the two are married, and by the time he realizes that she is not the woman he was to marry, se has taken off with all of his money. Seems she and her male partner killed the real fiancee at sea.

Belmondo heads to France, and has a nervous breakdown. While he is recovering, he sees Deneuve, a hostess at a Riviera nightclub, on a TV special. He plans to kill her, but, when in her room alone with her, finds he loves her. He even goes so far as to kill a detective he had hired to keep her out of prison. Now the two are on the run together. She has decided to poison him, but upon learning that he has figured out her plan, but is allowing her to do it, decides she loves him after all.

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Deneuve shows breasts in two well lit scenes. In 1969, she would have been on everyone's 10 most beautiful list, and she gave a very good performance against type. IMDb readers have this at 7.1 of 10. It was not especially well received at the time of its US release, and is thought to be one of Troufaut's weaker efforts, but the US version was butchered by 13 minutes for the initial theatrical release. It was made by a French cast and crew, in France, in French, but according to IMDb is an Italian film. Unfortunately, having seen Original Sin, this original version had no surprises for me, so it was rather a long watch. There is much to observe and admire in Troufaut's approach however. This is a C, much better if you do not know the story going in.

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• Heather Graham film clip

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Grabbed this extreme strip and wiggle disk entitled Filthy Rich Girls because Jesse Capelli is in it. Jesse has used the name Jennifer Leone when she's made Hollywood movies such as Not Another Teen Movie and Van Wilder, and she's used the Jesse name when she's posed for Penthose and done all sorts of fetish things, if her entry in IMDB is to be believed.

Anyway Jesse is in it and so are a bunch of other gals and what they do is get dressed up in fancy clothes and pearls and then take off the fancy clothes...but not the pearls...and then show off what God or man done gave them. Everybody shows everything. The gynocam got quite a workout. The women are terrific looking and everyhing is nicely lighted and well shot but of course someone then decided to compress the shit of the disk so that any movement of the babe or the camera put motion chatter all over the images, but I didn't mind editing these frames at all. I particularly like several of the Jesse things because they were lovingly constructed from a series of frames as the camera panned slowly over her body.

In addition to Jesse, a couple of pornstars named Angel Cassidey and Tanya James show up. Tanya got the job because she has some resemblance to a real filthy rich girl. Both of these women show us the goodies at some length. Tanya, especially. And since she spent so much time with her legs apart it seemed rude to walk away without grabbing every frame I could.

Another gal who strips and poses is Jelena Jensen. She is blessed with quite the set of hooters. And strutting her stuff is sometime B-movie actress Kira Eggers. She's got beautiful green eyes and ample bosom.

No plot here...only nekkid women.

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