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Tony Kenyon was THE dirty mac icon of mid-Seventies British porn. Although clearly well into middle age, this didn't stop him from appearing in The Sexplorer, Diversions or Keep It Up Downstairs, as well as participating in their overseas hardcore versions. The general impression you get from Kenyon's film appearances is of a jovial swinger, playing it for comedy and incredulous that he's found a legitimate way of being the focus of sexual attention from actresses half his age. Secrets of a Superstud offers up Kenyon in his only lead role- and cast as Custer Firkenshaw the owner of 'Bare Monthly' Magazine who's up to his neck in dirty pictures and sexy secretaries- his most fitting one.
Not surprisingly, given Kenyon's reputation, Secrets of a Superstud was also shot in a hardcore export version alternatively known as It's Getting Harder All the Time and Naughty Girls on the Loose. Though the real raison d'etre is absent, ironically the soft-core 'comedy' version Secrets of a Superstud is chiefly notable for its impatient attitude towards getting from one display of female flesh to another. Simply there is sex here by the bucket load and the script, partly written by former Tigon employee and sometimes ghost director Gerry Levy, is under no impression that it's anything other than a number of 'filling in the blanks' comic connecting sequences.
Secrets of a Superstud, rather like an episode of On the Buses, seems explicitly targeted at men of a certain age who still fancy their chances and offers them faint 'reassurance'. The opening scene with Custer strutting his stuff around Fleet Street, groping several secretaries as he enters his office then spending most of the afternoon having sex with several women in succession also serves as a reminder the film comes from a world long before Aids or sexual harassment. From the dirty mac perspective Custer appears to hold down the ideal job, spending his days watching models undress and his nights shacked up with the girls he especially likes. Custer's impersonations of a rabbit are however temporary halted when his Uncle Charlie dies and the hapless hedonist is pitted against his ghastly relatives. His Uncle leaves Custer a fortune in the will, but only on the condition that he marries and has a child within 12 months, otherwise it all goes to his relatives and he loses the lot. The money grabbing relatives know only to well about Custer's trouser dropping ways, so keep tabs on him by hiring a crooked private dick played by the late Alan Selwyn, a Derek Ford associate who acted as Agent/Manager to many sex actresses of the period. When Custer visits a doctor both parties discover that due to Custer's oversexed lifestyle he's only got 13 units of 'sexually activity' left, after which he can kiss the millions and any chance of fatherhood goodbye.
When the relatives learn of this they plan to stitch Custer up by hiring girls to seduce him and use up those potent 13 bonking attempts. In an amusing moment of acting suddenly blurring into real-life, Selwyn produces a black book containing the telephone numbers of girls who can pull a sex scene at the drop of a hat. Thereon in it's a race against time as Custer tries to find a suitable bride to impregnate while Selwyn's girls pose as cat burglars, 'lost' neighbours and even drag up as meter inspectors in order to catch Custer with more than his guard down. Mock country and western songs, rich in puerile double entendres `Custer was more interested in cockfighting than gunfighting' act as a cheeky commentary on the action.
Kenyon's supporting cast is a mixture of low-level starlets like fragile looking, two film wonder Jacky Rigby and ex-dancer Bobby Sparrow as well as comfortingly familiar mid-Seventies sex film character types. David Pugh reprises his bumbling, pug ugly character from The Love Pill in the form of one of Custer's relatives and David Rayner unusually plays it straight (in both senses of the word) as a Mad Doctor. Although bereft of his Keep It Up Jack wig Mark Jones enjoys a secondary, but quite lengthy role as Custer's right hand man, a gay photographer who helps Custer out by impersonating him and as a result is swamped by women and begrudgingly falls off the homosexual wagon for a while. Also look out for an appearance by Selwyn client and all round sexual dynamo Heather Deeley as one of the women bamboozled by Jones' display of pseudo-heterosexuality. Never one to be outdone, Heather later reappears in the film leading two other girls in a full scale attack on Custer's bedroom. You suspect Kenyon and Deeley's scene together is one of the highlights of the elusive hardcore version, its one of many moments in the film that reveals a carefree inclination towards group sex.
Secrets of a Superstud maintains a raunchy yet utterly silly tone throughout with the cast reliably going through their well tried and tested sex or comedy routines. Selwyn and Kenyon in particular prove themselves game for anything, the former cast in a role that requires him to don the boot polish and impersonate a black door to door salesman and the latter alarmingly appearing dressed in full baby costume at one point. Still given the film's extremely basic production values including possibly the most atrocious editing ever seen in a theatrically released film you'd be forgiven for occasionally questioning whether or not the whole thing wasn't conceived merely as an excuse for Tony Kenyon to get laid.
Tony Kenyon was THE dirty mac icon of mid-Seventies British porn. Although clearly well into middle age, this didn't stop him from appearing in The Sexplorer, Diversions or Keep It Up Downstairs, as well as participating in their overseas hardcore versions. The general impression you get from Kenyon's film appearances is of a jovial swinger, playing it for comedy and incredulous that he's found a legitimate way of being the focus of sexual attention from actresses half his age. Secrets of a Superstud offers up Kenyon in his only lead role- and cast as Custer Firkenshaw the owner of 'Bare Monthly' Magazine who's up to his neck in dirty pictures and sexy secretaries- his most fitting one.
Not surprisingly, given Kenyon's reputation, Secrets of a Superstud was also shot in a hardcore export version alternatively known as It's Getting Harder All the Time and Naughty Girls on the Loose. Though the real raison d'etre is absent, ironically the soft-core 'comedy' version Secrets of a Superstud is chiefly notable for its impatient attitude towards getting from one display of female flesh to another. Simply there is sex here by the bucket load and the script, partly written by former Tigon employee and sometimes ghost director Gerry Levy, is under no impression that it's anything other than a number of 'filling in the blanks' comic connecting sequences.
Secrets of a Superstud, rather like an episode of On the Buses, seems explicitly targeted at men of a certain age who still fancy their chances and offers them faint 'reassurance'. The opening scene with Custer strutting his stuff around Fleet Street, groping several secretaries as he enters his office then spending most of the afternoon having sex with several women in succession also serves as a reminder the film comes from a world long before Aids or sexual harassment. From the dirty mac perspective Custer appears to hold down the ideal job, spending his days watching models undress and his nights shacked up with the girls he especially likes. Custer's impersonations of a rabbit are however temporary halted when his Uncle Charlie dies and the hapless hedonist is pitted against his ghastly relatives. His Uncle leaves Custer a fortune in the will, but only on the condition that he marries and has a child within 12 months, otherwise it all goes to his relatives and he loses the lot. The money grabbing relatives know only to well about Custer's trouser dropping ways, so keep tabs on him by hiring a crooked private dick played by the late Alan Selwyn, a Derek Ford associate who acted as Agent/Manager to many sex actresses of the period. When Custer visits a doctor both parties discover that due to Custer's oversexed lifestyle he's only got 13 units of 'sexually activity' left, after which he can kiss the millions and any chance of fatherhood goodbye.
When the relatives learn of this they plan to stitch Custer up by hiring girls to seduce him and use up those potent 13 bonking attempts. In an amusing moment of acting suddenly blurring into real-life, Selwyn produces a black book containing the telephone numbers of girls who can pull a sex scene at the drop of a hat. Thereon in it's a race against time as Custer tries to find a suitable bride to impregnate while Selwyn's girls pose as cat burglars, 'lost' neighbours and even drag up as meter inspectors in order to catch Custer with more than his guard down. Mock country and western songs, rich in puerile double entendres `Custer was more interested in cockfighting than gunfighting' act as a cheeky commentary on the action.
Kenyon's supporting cast is a mixture of low-level starlets like fragile looking, two film wonder Jacky Rigby and ex-dancer Bobby Sparrow as well as comfortingly familiar mid-Seventies sex film character types. David Pugh reprises his bumbling, pug ugly character from The Love Pill in the form of one of Custer's relatives and David Rayner unusually plays it straight (in both senses of the word) as a Mad Doctor. Although bereft of his Keep It Up Jack wig Mark Jones enjoys a secondary, but quite lengthy role as Custer's right hand man, a gay photographer who helps Custer out by impersonating him and as a result is swamped by women and begrudgingly falls off the homosexual wagon for a while. Also look out for an appearance by Selwyn client and all round sexual dynamo Heather Deeley as one of the women bamboozled by Jones' display of pseudo-heterosexuality. Never one to be outdone, Heather later reappears in the film leading two other girls in a full scale attack on Custer's bedroom. You suspect Kenyon and Deeley's scene together is one of the highlights of the elusive hardcore version, its one of many moments in the film that reveals a carefree inclination towards group sex.
Secrets of a Superstud maintains a raunchy yet utterly silly tone throughout with the cast reliably going through their well tried and tested sex or comedy routines. Selwyn and Kenyon in particular prove themselves game for anything, the former cast in a role that requires him to don the boot polish and impersonate a black door to door salesman and the latter alarmingly appearing dressed in full baby costume at one point. Still given the film's extremely basic production values including possibly the most atrocious editing ever seen in a theatrically released film you'd be forgiven for occasionally questioning whether or not the whole thing wasn't conceived merely as an excuse for Tony Kenyon to get laid.
