Several years before legendary British glamour actress Mary Millington finally hit the big time in 1977's 'Come Play with Me' she had appeared anonymously in a dozen or so 8mm 'stag' films shot both in London and on the Continent. Most of these mini-epic were directed by X-rated pioneer John Lindsay. Their first film together was the, now infamous, 'Miss Bohrloch' in 1970.
Mary plays the insatiable title character, a prostitute working out of an apartment in downtown Frankfurt. When two (unidentified) long haired hippies turn up for sex she entertains them both individually and simultaneously, going through her full repertoire of sexual acts. For such a short film - it runs for barely 15 minutes - 'Miss Bohrloch' is a highly charged erotic extravaganza, relentless in its portrayal of raw sexuality and untamed lust.
Extremely explicit for its day (the film's most talked about sequence involves Mary's bizarre trick with a ping-pong ball!), John Lindsay's award-winning direction is taut and unfussy, combining stark close-ups as well as the bare bones of a plot. The funny pay off at the end, when Mary makes her clients do her washing-up in lieu of payment, recalls to mind all the cheap jokes so prevalent in later British sex comedies of the seventies.
'Miss Bohrloch' is perhaps Mary Millington's rarest film and it remains a collector's item, only occasionally available in bootleg form. It's certainly hard to find, but once seen is never forgotten.