The Necklace

Paul Thomas brought Euro porn star/filmmaker Anita Rinaldi into the Vivid Video fold for a while, and this unusual production is well worth checking out, lost in the Vivid catalog from nearly two decades back.

With some dialog in Hungarian (she shoots in Budapest), the vignette tale has a dealer telling an elderly couple who are prospective buyers about the colorful provenance of an heirloom necklace, and we watch illustrated sex scenes involving its various owners spanning seven centuries.

Alberto Rey (misspelled in end credits as Ray) plays a Turkish Sultan having group sex with several of his harem beauties by a fabulous indoor pool in the initial flashback set in the year 1435. Many anachronisms are part of director Rinaldi's artistic license, ranging from tattoos to the Vivid safe sex use of condoms throughout.

Steve Holmes' unmistakable long-long dick identifies him as Charles Smith in the 1700s in a delightful fancy dress scene replete with white powdered wigs as he humps his bride, the beautiful Orsi.

Jumping ahead a century there is a scene with a Polish cardinal having sex with a very modern looking blonde while another clergyman masturbates, as a voyeur peeking at them through the doorway. Thomas Tone is priest and Kristy (aka Christal) the out of place girl.

Scene shifts to Bucharest in the 1960s with group sex in a brothel, as the necklace belongs to prostitute Isabella played by Marianna. Choky Ice is prominent in this scene, but not credited under that name.

Isabella's daughter Roselyn (played by Melinda) inherits the jewels, and lives in London in the 1980s, featured in a heavy fetish bondage scene wearing a strap-on-dildo as masked male sex slave Frank Gun services her and she services lovely Edina.

Gem ends up selling to the couple for $500,000, followed by a satisfying and 50/50 predictable trick ending. A satisfying, lovely to look at piece of porn, with script credited to PT's regular man Tony G.