Torn

One of dozens of Nicholas Steele productions made after his successful career for Adam & Eve and later reissued by Bluebird Films, "Torn" has the title "Ladies of Light" in its end credits, and is a romantic trifle set right after WW II.

Told mainly in flashbacks, script by Steele and Peter Wood revolves around women taking significant working roles during the war, and what happens with the return of their men post-war. Rayveness, looking perfect in period costumes and '40s styling, has been running her husband's bank, but has financial difficulties as she's been kind to folks falling into debt. A phone call gets her a $5 million loan just in time to save the business, and so her reunion with hubby Steven St. Croix makes for a solid romantic climax to the picture.

We find out that Ray was a movie star before being pressed into service as businesswoman, and in flashback she has sex with fan Cheyne Collins. Her assistant is British, played by Holly Wellin. Much of the movie is knit together by a scene of Holly drinking and reminiscing by the fireplace with Ray, including a flashback very stylishly photographed in front of an aquarium, with Lexxi Tyler's huge breasts a scene stealer having Sapphic sex with Holly.

Penny Flame has sex on a stairway with Randy Spears, latter's role seriously underwritten in a script intentionally all about the ladies. Derrick Pierce, his credit seriously misspelled as "Derek Pearce", returns from the war to take up where he left off as Wellin's lover Charlie.

Steele goes old school with very brief sex scenes and lots of dialog. Low point is silly slapstick thrown in by Stone as part of the overall homage to Hollywood '40s cinema.