Well, I had an entire review of Something Weird Video's crazy double feature release "Common Law Wife/Jennie, Wife/Child" but I left the room to whip up some food only to return to see my program crashed; all was lost.
In any event, "Jennie, Wife/Child" plays like it was pulled from a dusty stack of rejected 1950s social studies reel-to-reels made to discourage growing up too fast (read: gold-digging — in this case), as it portrays an ever so cute but stir crazy twenty-year-old Jennie (Beverly Lunsford) married to a middle–aged farm owner (Jack Lester). But the studly hired hand, Mario (Jim Reader), catches the lovely Jennie's eye, which leads to all sorts of hilarious tension. What's more, little Jennie becomes a tad possessive of Mario after he spends a drunken night in town with the "town tramp" Lulu (Virginia Wood), a bubbly blonde whose morals are a smidgen loose — to be kind. But the grizzled and somewhat bitter Mr. Peckingpaw is growing weary of Jennie's exploits. He has a plan. For an underground film made on a dirt cheap budget, there's a glimpse of some real substance to these characters. Intended or not.
The second movie, "Common Law Wife", isn't so educational-based in feel. It goes far beyond with a truer thriller plot. An old oil-rich skinflint named Shugfoot (George Edgely) suddenly realizes his live-in girlfriend, Linda, is far too old for him. Old Shug hatches a plan to bring his "blood niece" Jonelle (whom he calls Baby Doll) into town as a live-in caregiver — his ultimate goal of making her his lover. Yes, you read that correctly. Things become (even more) complicated for ol' Shug when Linda is informed there is something known as Common–law marriage; she now assumes the upper hand, as it were. But what's that saying about assuming stuff? Baby Doll is now back in town and she has an agenda all her own. This feature has a surprisingly solid ending.
Now — the disc has a hidden third feature entitled "Moonshine Love" (at one time known as Sod Sisters), which employs the thinnest and inanest of plots wrapped around two "sisters" who come to harbor an amnesiac, who unknown to them, was involved in a recent robbery. The two live in a mountain cabin with an older fellow who could be any or all degrees of relation — the three come to relish their visitor's presence until his accomplices finally track him to the area. This film features copious full-on nudity. To wit, a several minute scene where one sister gratifies herself in various ways with a large, irregular yam/potato! Believe it or not! I hope I didn't spoil it for anyone...
Common Law Wife is the only one really worth a watch if you're afforded the opportunity, but don't let the fact a couple of scenes in Jennie, Wife/Child (which supposedly shed more light on the "Baby Doll" character) didn't make the leap from video to disc — since it is a double feature DVD it's worth checking out.
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