While video store owners scan their distributors mailings for alternatives to the latest shot-on-video adult feature, they might want to grab Roger Vadim’s remake of his own … And God Created Woman. The original, starring the internationally renown beauty Brigitte Bardot (1957), has become something of a staple of softcore erotica. The attractive blonde Rebecca De Mornay stars in the remake, and although she shows more skin than Ms. Bardot, this remake is not quite as sexy.

But the movie is interesting enough, with a few simulated sex scenes spicing up the plot. She’s an impulsive ex-con, the exploited pet project of a politician (Frank Langella) running for re-election. Before her prison release, she encounters guard Vincent Spano, whom she ravages in a very erotic sequence. For her own political purposes, she marries him and tries to meld this supposedly plutonic relationship with her aspiring singing career. The rest of the film explores this unlikely couples’ differing views on the mating game, with De Mornay eventually bedding down Langella, but ending up with Spano.

For consumers looking for a lot of sex, … And God Created Woman might be a disappointment. But many men would lust after the sensuous De Mornay, and those people will find the film satisfying. It opened theatrically in most cities across the United States, and looks like a probable hit in video stores.