Farewell Scarlet, Full (1975)

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Description: When Scarlet is mysteriously murdered at a blindfolded sex party, her Aunt Olga contacts private Dexter Sleuth to find the murderer.
Scene Breakdowns:
Scene 1. Kim Pope, Terri Hall, Eric Edwards
Scene 2. Katia Mara, Bob Stevens
Scene 3. Jennifer Jordan, Kim Pope, Roger Caine, Bob Stevens
Scene 4. Darby Lloyd Rains, Douglas Wood, Eric Edwards
Scene 5. Darby Lloyd Rains, Terri Hall, Roger Caine, Barry Christian
Scene 6. C.J. Laing
Scene 7. C.J. Laing, Terri Hall, Steve Lark
Scene 8. Katia Mara, Terri Hall
Scene 9. Jennifer Jordan, Katia Mara
Scene 10. Terri Hall, Bob Stevens
Scene 11. Kim Pope, Levi Richards, Michael Thorpe
Scene 12. Terri Hall, Roger Caine, Barry Christian
Scene 13. Chris Jordan, Duane Williams
Scene 14. Terri Hall, Eric Edwards
Review:
Nearing the end of my run of Film Noir from around the world, I started thinking about what title I should pick from the US, and the first thing which came to mind was something from the Adult genre! Having found his non-Adult titles Deranged (1987) and If Looks Could Kill (1986-both also reviewed), I was excited to stumble on a XXX Noir from Chuck Vincent, which led to me waving goodbye to Scarlet.

View on the film:
Unmasking the scene of the crime in the opening orgy sex toy murder co-star/co-writer/(with James Vidos and Cecil Howard)editor/directing auteur Chuck Vincent & his occasional cinematographer Stephen Colwell slide into the Golden Age of Adult cinema with a riff on the glamour of the era, via Vincent panning down the mansion rooms filled with the lust of beautiful people, chocked out by a kinky killing. Attempting to strip bare what really happened at the party, Vincent opens up a cheeky Noir atmosphere that follows Dexter Sleuth interviewing suspects in low-lighting, which dissolves into misty flashbacks on what the former guests are covering up.

Greeting the audience with the carnal delight orgy intro, Vincent balances close-ups to the sleaze, whilst continuing to build on his motif of criss-crossing the comedic with the sensual, as Vincent and Colwell break into Scarlet's past with a glorious breaking of the 4th wall turning Scarlet "method" on a film set, allowing Vincent to take Scarlet's film past to the absurdest level with a Third Reich 3 sum!

Displaying an excellent eye for keeping the comedy and the sex scenes grounded in Film Noir, Vincent gives the passionate flashbacks from the guests to the mansion frolics a steamy erotic atmosphere in sensual close-ups on the upper-bodies of the partners, wrapped in classical music.

Rubbing up against the surviving guests memories of the night, the writers brilliantly party on a theme that Vincent would explore in a serious style with Deranged- the unreliability of memory, in this case intentionally due to the guests using funny euphemisms to cover their true saucy memories.

Whilst flashing back to comedic set-pieces, the writers hold the laughs and the sex together with an exciting Film Noir thread spinning around Dexter Sleuth's interviews and shaking hands with a slippery politician in the hope of learning who waved farewell to Scarlet.

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