Secondhand Smut’s fifth installment is covering the porn I watched from December 2014 to April 2015. Said smut is devoted to the Devil in Miss Jones franchise. There are tons of information regarding its history out there, and even more tons of words reviewing it and analyzing it (even academically if that’s your thing), but what you’ll read here is my thoughts after going a film-by-film marathon.
The Devil in Miss Jones 3: A New beginning (1986) and The
Devil in Miss Jones: The Resurrection (2010) was ignored as I was not able
to track down copies of those in time for this article. Der Teufel in Miss Jonas (1976) is an unofficial remake, and The Devil’s Agenda & Miss Jones
(1991) is an unofficial sequel, and hence they were ignored.
Devil
in Miss Jones (1973)
One of my favorite porn films of all time is Gerard Damiano’s Deep Throat (1972), and one
of my favourite autobiographies is Georgina Spelvin’s The Devil made me Do It. So it was only natural that I would fall in love with
the Devil in Miss
Jones
(1973) that the two of them made together and is considered by many the best
adult film from the golden age.
It is about the
titular lady (Georgina Spelvin) who (in a sequence that brings student short
films in mind, but I am saying this as a good thing) commits suicide when she’s
slashing her wrists with a razorblade.
Then Miss Jones
goes to the afterlife, where she meets Abaca (John Clemens) who tells her that despite
her quite excellent track record as a mortal human being, the guys upstairs
(i.e. heaven) cannot accept her because suicide is a crucial sin, so she’ll
have to go downstairs (i.e. hell).