The film features a "who's who" of adult stars from the mid-80s: Hyapatia Lee
The film features several prominent stars from the 1980s adult industry: The Ribald Tales of Canterbury (1985) - IMDb The Ribald Tales Of Canterbury -1985- -Classic-
Unlike the grainy, shot-on-video smut of the late 80s, this film was shot on 35mm celluloid. The sets, while obviously soundstages, are rich with tapestries, faux-stone walls, and genuine wooden mugs. The costumes are surprisingly accurate for a low-budget feature; the Wife of Bath wears a genuine-looking wimple and scarlet hose, signaling her vanity and wealth. This attention to texture gives the film a dreamlike, Playboy-feature quality that modern digital shoots lack. The film features a "who's who" of adult
The standout performance is the actress playing the Wife of Bath. In 1985 feminist discourse, the Wife of Bath is a radical figure: a woman who has outlived five husbands and craves sovereignty over her own body. This film understands that. Unlike the submissive female archetypes of later 80s adult cinema, the Wife of Bath here is loud, fat, proud, and sexually dominant. She narrates her interlude directly to the camera (breaking the fourth wall) and declares, “I will have my husband both in bed and by the purse.” It is a surprisingly pro-female performance buried in a genre that rarely allowed for complexity. This attention to texture gives the film a