Las Vegas- I was having a chat this afternoon with Arrow’s Ray Pistol, www.xxxdeepthroat.com and Pistol besides getting word that the documentary Inside Deep Throat will be coming out early February, was telling me about a film in his possession which he’d like to release. It’s titled Captain Lust and the Pirate Women.

In the circumstances that Pistol outlined you’d figure that possession was pretty much nine-tenths of the law and that Pistol should just go ahead and do it. But Pistol, always being the one to scrupulously dot his i’s and cross his t’s, wants to make sure he has the title free and clear. [A situation that isn’t preventing some Internet mail order companies from selling it, as a Google search will show you.]

To accomplish what he needs to accomplish for his peace of mind, Pistol is basically looking for the director of the movie, Beau Buchanan. “I’m not sure he’s even around anymore,” said Pistol as he and I traded surmises as to Buchanan’s whereabouts. “He was an older guy and was making movies, writing movies in the Seventies.” Pistol, obviously, was wondering whether Buchanan was still alive and, if so, what company he might be connected with. “He was working with Butchie [Peraino] for awhile and had a company called International Home Video,” Pistol goes on to tell me. “I think he was an arm of Butchie’s.”

The Captain Lust movie that Pistol is talking about also has another name, Captain Lust and The Contessa. “But I think I own the movie,” says Pistol. “It’s a Beau Buchanan movie which makes it a Lou Peraino movie. I’m trying to find out what I can to release this movie. But it hasn’t been out on the market in 15 or 20 years. And I’m not even sure that movie made it to VHS. It comes down to, okay, I’ve got this movie here. I’ve got several like that. They’re interesting titles. But I just know that Beau Buchanan keeps coming up in the history of the company.”

Among a cast that includes Nancy Dare, Justine Fletcher, Vern Knotty and Jamie Gillis, Pistol notes that Sharon Mitchell is also in the film. I did a Google search connecting Mitchell and the film and came across this bizarre Internet item:

“NEW YORK — Sharon Mitchell, heroine of the X-rated Captain Lust, was having trouble cashing a check at a New York bank because she was not carrying a driver’s license or any other identification.

She was carrying a magazine in which she appeared in the nude. She handed over the magazine, hitched her sweater up to her chin, and arranged herself in the same pose.2 They cashed her check. ”

Then, as Pistol’s attorney, I simply advised him to fall on the Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers defense in the event that anyone squawked about his releasing Captain Lust. Among some of the other forgotten films in Pistol’s vault is one called Tabu along with Football Widow.