Four Women in Trouble (1970) User Reviews

Holmes Playing an Abortion Doctor

[Michael_Elliott · 2 December 2016]

Four Women in Trouble (1970)

** (out of 4)

This "film" clocks in just under a hour and starts off with four separate girls having sex without using any sorts of protection. The girls then find themselves pregnant so they need to have an abortion so they go to a doctor played by John Holmes who uses his, umm... His "piece" to do the abortion.

I had heard about this film for many years. It seems rumors and myths made it appear a lot worse than it actually or at least concerning the plot. There's no blood or anything graphic shown in regards to the abortion but perhaps a more sinister edge would have helped this film. In all honesty this here is a quickie that was turned out for very little money and I doubt anyone was intending to make a good picture.

For the most part it's very poorly filmed, the sex scenes are rather lame and the so-called plot is really dumb. The first thirty-five or so minutes has the women encountering men and then we get to the Holmes sequence at the end. We've also got a narrator trying to pass this off as an educational movie as he warns what can happen if you don't protect yourself during sex.

FOUR WOMEN IN TROUBLE is a pretty bad movie but if you're a fan of these types of films then it's mildly entertaining in its own cheesy way.

Primitive XXX barely qualifies as hardcore

[rduchmann · 1/10 · 12 June 2000]

Very early LA porn production, primitively made, features an unknown cast aside from the youthful, marcelled John C Holmes as an abortion doctor who doesn't take Blue Cross. IMDb dates this to 1973; however, it's undoubtedly a 1970 effort and must have seemed fairly crude even when it was new. The narration track on my copy is almost inaudible, so I can only guess at the plot development, such as there is. Four women have sex, find themselves pregnant, and seek the services of Dr Holmes (that's scary!). One of the setup scenarios seems to involve incest, with a quite mature chick cuddling stuffed animals and pretending to be a juvie while a guy playing her ?brother gropes her. Another is visibly coercive but the dialog is inaudible in my copy. Alex Comfort didn't use anything from this film.

It's mostly in focus but not very well shot or recorded, and it's far from a hardcore romp. There is very little explicit footage except for two later sequences, where Holmes examines a waifish blonde and then attends to his nurse and a Hispanic-looking woman, and even these are shot with a minimum of hardcore detail. The female cast are all pretty ordinary-looking hippie girls of c1970; the guys illustrate why porn fans love to refer to the male talent as "parolees." Nobody looks happy to be here, and it's somehow comforting that the actresses are shown having only limited sexual contact with these guys!

Film is strictly of historical interest, as a look at what they were doing in LA when they first started "showing it." On the IMDb scale, I'll give this an easy 1.