Impressive feature compared to the lion's share of Cash Markman's work, this Sin City Ultra release from the late, lamented label's golden age is entertaining and well-done up to a point, faltering in the later reels from unconvincing plot twists from the prolific writer-director. Coincidentally, Cash shows up on screen as a police detective delivering lots of verbal exposition around the time the movie goes South.
It's presented as a Jewel DeNyle vehicle, and she is sexually impressive as a femme fatale, though directed to give a one-dimensional performance by Cash. She plays the new young wife of George Kaplan, the famed Adult Cinema scriptwriter having a major NonSex acting role here.
He's dad to male lead Dillon Day, who at first spars with the new step-mom but inevitably is attracted to her. The major plot twist is taken from Rene Clement's classic "sunlit" film noir "Plein Soleil" ("Purple Noon"), the Patricia Highsmith adaptation that later was remade starring Matt Damon as "The Talented Mr. Ripley".
Up until auteur Markman rushes through the climax and aftermath, ruining the credibility built up in earlier reels, the movie is involving, as the viewer can identify with Day and his clueless infatuation with the deadly golddigger who married his dad. Less famous beauties fill out the cast, with the incomparable Nikita Denise stealing the spotlight for her scene as an irresistibly sexy maid in Kaplan's household.
It's presented as a Jewel DeNyle vehicle, and she is sexually impressive as a femme fatale, though directed to give a one-dimensional performance by Cash. She plays the new young wife of George Kaplan, the famed Adult Cinema scriptwriter having a major NonSex acting role here.
He's dad to male lead Dillon Day, who at first spars with the new step-mom but inevitably is attracted to her. The major plot twist is taken from Rene Clement's classic "sunlit" film noir "Plein Soleil" ("Purple Noon"), the Patricia Highsmith adaptation that later was remade starring Matt Damon as "The Talented Mr. Ripley".
Up until auteur Markman rushes through the climax and aftermath, ruining the credibility built up in earlier reels, the movie is involving, as the viewer can identify with Day and his clueless infatuation with the deadly golddigger who married his dad. Less famous beauties fill out the cast, with the incomparable Nikita Denise stealing the spotlight for her scene as an irresistibly sexy maid in Kaplan's household.