An epic tale of the noble struggle between men for one gorgeous woman, this movie will break your heart and scald your loins. Amy (Susan George) is a luscious English rose who married a nerdy but financially successful American mathematician David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman). She doesn't love and not so secretly despises him and his wimpy ways, but she needs the money to save her family's ancestral mansion in Cornwall. David gets a smoking hottie that would otherwise be way out of his league. Everybody wins, huh? She gets the money, he gets the pussy. But he don't know how to control his woman, who is still in love with Charlie Venner (Del Henney) a former boyfriend whom she had to abandon because he's a low-class common labourer with no education and no future. Charlie is still madly in love with her and jumps at the chance when she suggests to David that he give Charlie and his friends a job repairing their barn roof. That way she can see Charlie every day. The only problem is that David is always in the house working on his math problems and so she never has a chance to get out of sight and make a rendevous with Charlie. She teases Charlie by flashing him her panties and taking off her shirt, exposing her voluptuous breasts as she gazes sadly and soulfully at Charlie, her face that of an exotic bird trapped in a gilded cage.
This strategy backfires because it's not just Charlie she exposed her sweet flesh to. The other 3 roofworkers gawk and drool over her as well. Norman Scutt (Ken Hutchinson) in particular has the fire of passion stirred within his breast. He longs desperately for Amy and resents the fact that between Charlie and David, he has no chance. It's not fair! When one of the other roofworkers sneaks into the Sumner's bedroom and snatches a souvenir of Amy's panties and shows them to Norman, Norman snorts, "I'd rather have what's in'em." The other roofer tells him that Charlie got into those panties before, which sends Norman into a petulant rage as he huffs and stomps off. But the other roofer crawling in through the bedroom window gives Norman an idea that will be exploited later.
Norman sneaks in one day and kills the cat. Amy gets very upset and asks David to speak to the roofers about it. But David is a coward who is afraid of the roofers as a nerdy math boy is afraid of a gang of cool guy toughs. He can only pick up the courage to speak to them when he's drunk. The Sumner's marriage is going through a rough spot. Though when they make love in their bed she goes through the motions like a practiced call girl, Amy no longer even bothers to hide her contempt for David. She sabatoges his math equations and walks around the house constantly sulking. She knew she had to marry this man to save her family's home but she is a red-blooded woman who can't be satisfied by this milksop, and she's just about reaching the breaking point. counting the days, counting the weeks, till I can safely divorce....
At the meeting the roofers invite David on a hunting trip. David takes the chance because he is lonely and has no friends because nobody in the village likes him. The villagers all despise him because he is a rich wimp who's stolen the hottest girl in town and when he talks to people his social skills are so lacking that he insults and alienates everybody. So, David goes on the hunt with the boys. But this is all part of a crafty plan on the part of Charlie and Norman. Having succeeded in finally getting David out of the house, that comely wench is theirs for the taking. They abandon David out in the fields, miles away from home. While the cat's away, the mice will play!
Charlie gets there first. He knocks on the door, his expression barely containing his excitement - he's gonna get laid! Amy opens the door and invites him in, even though she's only dressed in her bathrobe. She's nervous and Charlie asks if he should go. She tells him to stay. Charlie kisses her and she kisses back. Amy is confused. Part of her wants to stay loyal to her husband, she doesn't want to look like an adulterous slut; part of her wants a real man like Charlie to give it to her good. Amy slaps Charlie as part of her playing hard to get game. But Charlie knocks her to the floor to show her that he's not going to let her get away with that game. Amy backs away, still playing the game, now the predator-prey rape game. Charlie is now the one who's confused. Heartbroken to see her resist his advances, he pathetically begs, "Amy, please. Please," in a desperate pleading tone that will break your heart. He's got Amy backed like a corned animal. Amy bolts like a deer towards the stairs but Charlie pounces like a lion and seizes her by the wrist.
Cutting through the red tape like the Gordian knot, Charlie has no time for coy games and drags Amy to the couch and throws her down, him on top.
Besotted by fear and lust, they are now more like animals than people now. Charlie caresses and kisses Amy tenderly. He reaches down to undo her bra and Amy tries to stop him with her hand and "no". Raising his hand, Charlie grunts like an ape in threat, telling her that he doesn't want to hurt her but he will if he must to get what he wants. Amy backs down and he rolls his eyes back in wonder at the magnificent bosom, showering her with warm pecks of kisses. He pulls off his shirt. Amy flashes back to the image of David pulling off his shirt and can't help noticing how much sexier Charlie's full, muscled chest is than David's weakling's chest. Charlie slowly tears off her panties and seizes the prize. Tears roll off Amy's face but as the sex gets going it gets going good and she begins to smile. She hasn't had it this good in a long, long time. Finally, a real man, not that wimpy David.
But as they lay together naked and peaceful in post-coital bliss, disaster strikes. Charlie wakes up to a rifle in his face. It's Norman. Charlie shakes his head No, but Norman is serious - he's ready to kill for Amy. Charlie slides off of Amy. This wakes Amy up, who turns around to see Norman unzipping his pants with a big grin on his face. "no. no. No. NO. NOOOOO!!!!" she howls, but she can do nothing as Norman sodomizes her as Charlie looks on with disgust. Charlie is sad because now Norman has ruined his chance at reconciliation with Amy by making him look like a rapist by association. But he has no choice - Norman has a gun and will kill them all if he doesn't get his fair share.
David returns to find Amy lying in bed crying. Swearing revenge, he finally after all this time has the guts to stand up the roofers and fires them the next day. But even then his voice is shaky and unconfident. David is not quite a man yet.
Amy and David go a big church social where all the villagers have gathered to party. Amy spots Norman and Charlie in the crowd and starts crying. David takes her home. As they drive back, they encounter Henry Niles (David Warner) a retarded sex offender who has just accidentally killed Sally, the village tramp. Amy understandably doesn't want Henry to come with them, but David offers to give him protection for the night. Henry is a misfit like himself and misfits must stick together.
The roofers and their role model, town drunk Tom Hedden, gather at the Sumner's home to lynch Henry. The constable tries to talk sense into them but they are drunk and kill him. David locks all the doors and windows to keep them out. Drunk and angry, the ruffians begin smashing windows in rage. Amy is scared. "Don't worry, love, I'll protect ya," says Charlie, and Susan begins to bolt towards the man she now realizes is her true love. But David grabs her and forces her to come with him. Now David is truly enraged and wants revenge against Charlie. He coldly plots to kill them all, knowing that he'll get away with it because it's in "self-defense". In fact, that was the reason he decided to give protection to Henry in the first place - to draw the town hooligans like moths to the flame. One by one, David coldly and efficiently dispatches the invaders, until it's a contest between two men: David and Charlie, locked in battle positions facing each other in a struggle to the death for the love of one woman.
But wait! A cry rings out from upstairs. "Charlie! Help!" Norman has spotted the roof and crawled through the window into the bedroom again. Now's his chance, to finally get Amy all alone, all to himself. He plans to kidnap her, leaving David and Charlie to kill themselves together, and then finally he'll have eliminated all his rivals and Amy will be forced to be his. Amy thrashes around wildly, screaming. Then Charlie busts in, brandishing his rifle, telling Norman to back off and drop his knife. Norman knows that Charlie isn't the psychopath he is and tries to call Charlie's bluff. But Charlie isn't bluffing. Norman dies with a hole in his gut from the shotgun blast.
Now, the battle begins again in earnest downstairs as Charlie and David duke it out. Susan watches passively, knowing that to whomever the victory goes, so goes her body as the spoils. Both men are ready to kill for the right to access to her glorious pussy. The odds are that tough nut Charlie will take down David, and he and Susan will be together again but this time with money inherited from dead David and the big mansion. But David is crafty and finally learns how to become a man. He tricks Charlie into stepping into the giant fire trap which rips off half of Charlie's face. Now, after having murdered 4 men, David is victorious. He takes Susan by the hand and leads her up to the bedroom, the ending implying that he's gotten worked up into a frenzy by all this action and is going to take out his testorone levels pushed into the red by shagging the spoils of victory, Susan, in a lustful fury.
This movie has a powerful moral message. It shows how that if we as men want our women, we must fight for the right. And if you aren't ready to fight for your right to good pussy, you don't deserve it and some other man will take your pussy away. At a basic level we are creatures of violence and lust. Like bears and monkeys and all other male creatures who kill each other in the wild every mating season for the precious privilege of sowing their seed, we are not so different after all. If there are three men and only one woman, only one man can survive.
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