Amusing burlesque sketches for the crude at heart

Bluebird Films occasionally featured Ben Dover/Steve Perry, who dominates a project with his goofball brand of dirty music hall/burlesque humor. This is a trivial release but has its moments thanks to the man's non-stop patter.

Of course it is the dozen or so birds in the cast who justify its very existence, but unlike many a Bluebird assembly-line junker the amusement leavens the tedium of wall-to-wall sex. The only other cast member who gets in a word edgewise is all-time Brit Porn great Cathy Barry (near the end of her career), thanks to Perry not appearing in her vignette.

Barry plays an Immigration Dept. official who is confronted with damsel in distress Daphne Rosen (whose breasts are even bigger than Cathy's) bursting into her office pursued by two foreign goons played by Olivier Sanchez and Sonny. They're out to capture her for illegally crossing a border, but the dominant She Who Must be Obeyed Barry will have none of it, spanking the guys en route to the inevitable sex foursome. Well-shot with a quality stress on breast-sex (natch) highlights this episode.

For the rest of the 2-hour compilation, Perry holds court, bossing his minions and molesting the mainly Euro porn actresses who cross his path. His improv is invigorating, inventing names for the cast members (instead of the usual porn tradition of character=stage name) and throwing in hoary old bad jokes willy-nilly. Example, after hanging up the phone he remarks: "It's Bill Bailey...He's not coming home". He gets in a political wisecrack with "We now have a Marxist government, and his name is Gordon Brown". In-joke, only relevant to fans immersed in British local culture, is when Perry as Sir Benjamin Dover is unmasked by a Polish guard as being Keith Harris, not a household name in my household here in NYC (evidently KH was a British ventriloquist).

Opening credits do not match the end credit in usual Bluebird sloppy fashion: a segment set in Warsaw is the culprit, as the actresses (Cyprus Isles, Rachel and Gabriela Glazer) only get across-the-chest credits upfront, omitted from the end crawl. Glazer is fun as a Polish martinet, ordering everybody around, with the switch here that the gals are not asylum seekers but rather the police, with Rachel & Isles sporting fetish military caps.

Kristi Love/Klenot displays a fabulous figure in her routine with Perry and Ian Tate, while Euro superstars Claudia Rossi and Natalli DiAngelo get humped by Tate and Jez Christ/Kane respectively.

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