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Director: Radley Metzger Starring: Clare Wilbur, Lynn Lowry, Gerald Grant, Calvin Culver, Carl Parker Screenplay: Jerry Douglas Country: USA

Score (aka The Score) tells the story of Elvira (Claire Wilber) and her husband Jack (Gerald Grant) who are sexual predators with a taste for…well, everything. While staying in Europe, they enjoy their swinging lifestyle, which is supplemented by Jack's income as a fashion photographer. After many orgies they decide to aim their sights on naïve young married couple Betsy (Lynn Lowry) and her uptight husband Eddie (Calvin Culver aka porn star Casey Donovan). They make a bet with each to get with this couple and proceed to hunt their prey. Through sexual experimentation, secrets are revealed that shock the young couple into a realization that maybe their marriage isn't quite what it should be.

Score is a film that is trying to tell us about sexual politics, sexual awakenings and the thrill of the hunt, and may have been thrilling and sexy in 1973 but unfortunately now comes across as incredibly kitsch. Elvira and Jack are performed like they are moustache twirling villains from the 1920s, and Betsy and Eddie, who are supposed to be naïve, come across as plain out dumb. The acting is well below any standard previously set, and almost every word… is…pronounced…individually. The sex scenes are cut like an MTV video AFTER the sound has been put in, so the soundtracks skips all over the place , which along with the plain out bad sound recording and ordinary image, makes this an effort to watch. I will give this film credit for one thing though, some of the dialogue is funny, almost subversively so, and you occasionally miss out on how clever the jokes are, due to the bad performances by the actors.