Esteemed XXX scripter Raven Touchstone usually penned her best work for Henri Pachard and Paul Thomas but this presumably assembly-line Jerome Tanner production benefits from her efforts and was a pleasant "no reason to be this good" surprise.
Replete with black & white Storyville styled opening credits, feature is set in a brothel/nightclub run by Inari Vachs in Sophie Tucker-styled greeter fashion. Minimal plot involves jealousy and in a pleasantly obvious nod to "Casablanca" there's even a trusty Black piano player (uncredited), occasioning Inari to request "Play it again, Moe" from time to time.
The reappearance of the guy Nick who left her high and dry years ago, in the person of Michael J. Cox, creates a nostalgia subplot but things don't really get going until the arrival of Nick's nemeses: the team of Evan and Kyle Stone, actors who often pop up in the same film but are unrelated.
Touchstone's screenplay takes an absurd turn at this point as Cox dresses like a woman to hide from the baddies. It's not a camp or comic turn like "Some Like It Hot" but more akin to the serious look at cross-dressing from a trans-gender viewpoint currently on screen via "The Danish Girl".
There are many awkward moments and a bit of silliness (exactly what you'd expect with Evan Stone as a nominal villain) but overall the results are very entertaining, especially when Cox does some serious hetero humping with obscure heroine Katie June, dressed in full drag, including fishnet stockings no less. Typical dialog at this point: "Don't make love to me, f*ck me!".
Film climaxes with Inari doing a d.p. with the Stones, a happy ending indeed.
Replete with black & white Storyville styled opening credits, feature is set in a brothel/nightclub run by Inari Vachs in Sophie Tucker-styled greeter fashion. Minimal plot involves jealousy and in a pleasantly obvious nod to "Casablanca" there's even a trusty Black piano player (uncredited), occasioning Inari to request "Play it again, Moe" from time to time.
The reappearance of the guy Nick who left her high and dry years ago, in the person of Michael J. Cox, creates a nostalgia subplot but things don't really get going until the arrival of Nick's nemeses: the team of Evan and Kyle Stone, actors who often pop up in the same film but are unrelated.
Touchstone's screenplay takes an absurd turn at this point as Cox dresses like a woman to hide from the baddies. It's not a camp or comic turn like "Some Like It Hot" but more akin to the serious look at cross-dressing from a trans-gender viewpoint currently on screen via "The Danish Girl".
There are many awkward moments and a bit of silliness (exactly what you'd expect with Evan Stone as a nominal villain) but overall the results are very entertaining, especially when Cox does some serious hetero humping with obscure heroine Katie June, dressed in full drag, including fishnet stockings no less. Typical dialog at this point: "Don't make love to me, f*ck me!".
Film climaxes with Inari doing a d.p. with the Stones, a happy ending indeed.