With a high-quality cast, right down to the Extra roles, John Leslie's "Hard to See You Go" represents unpretentious, first-rate entertainment from the master filmmaker. It's a shame his work is so underappreciated, perhaps because he later moved from storytelling to endless, repetitive gonzo videos.
Nina Hartley stars alongside Randy Spears as her husband, inheriting a ranch from her late uncle. (Movie was shot at the Dry Gulch Ranch, one of porn's most distinctive locations, frequently used during the VHS era.) She comes into immediate conflict with his nephew, who is still running the rundown place, but many inventive plot twists later they unite to defeat Randy's plot to poison Nina and make off with his lover Jacqueline.
Lauren Brice is also a plus in the cast on the side of the good guys, and the show, as usual, benefits from a bluesy musical score from Leslie's favorite collaborator, jazz artist Bill Heid, a top talent not ashamed to sign his real name on Adult movies. (I will never forget my shock in a Times Square screening room when I saw in the credits on screen for "The Devil in Miss Jones Part II" that Johnny Hartman sang the movie's theme song - this jazz great who worked memorably with John Coltrane on a classic LP I loved on the impulse! Label, no shame involved, but that was a different era, when Porno was Chic.)
Nina Hartley stars alongside Randy Spears as her husband, inheriting a ranch from her late uncle. (Movie was shot at the Dry Gulch Ranch, one of porn's most distinctive locations, frequently used during the VHS era.) She comes into immediate conflict with his nephew, who is still running the rundown place, but many inventive plot twists later they unite to defeat Randy's plot to poison Nina and make off with his lover Jacqueline.
Lauren Brice is also a plus in the cast on the side of the good guys, and the show, as usual, benefits from a bluesy musical score from Leslie's favorite collaborator, jazz artist Bill Heid, a top talent not ashamed to sign his real name on Adult movies. (I will never forget my shock in a Times Square screening room when I saw in the credits on screen for "The Devil in Miss Jones Part II" that Johnny Hartman sang the movie's theme song - this jazz great who worked memorably with John Coltrane on a classic LP I loved on the impulse! Label, no shame involved, but that was a different era, when Porno was Chic.)