From Bruno Wed May 17 12:32:26 EDT 1995 Article: 61172 of alt.sex.movies Path: netnews.upenn.edu!news.cc.swarthmore.edu!psuvax1!news.pop.psu.edu!news.cac.psu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!crl3.crl.com!not-for-mail From: Bruno Newsgroups: alt.sex.movies Subject: REVIEW Private Film 20 THE TOWER Date: 17 May 1995 06:12:36 -0700 Organization: Go, Buzz, Go Lines: 128 Message-ID: <[email protected]> NNTP-Posting-Host: crl3.crl.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO THE TOWER (Private Film #20) French dialogue, U.S. copy subtitled in English CREDITS Director: Pierre Woodman Cast: (from box cover) Aliza, Shayse Manhathan, Shanon, Anais, Andrea, Betty, Louise Tchekan, Franck Versace, David Perry, Richard Langin, Jean Yves LeCasteau (additional names from tape) Barbara, Monica Tanner (Aliza is given top billing, so I presume she is the actress playing the main character; other than her, the matching of players to faces is anybody's guess.) PLAYBOOK THE TOWER is a hardcore remake of the Sharon Stone vehicle, SLIVER. In that film, a series of murders in an exclusive New York highrise entangle a new tenant in an erotic mystery, complicated by a voyeur who spies on the sex lives of the tenants via the building's elaborate security system. The setup in THE TOWER is identical, and most of the sex scenes are intercut with views of the footage as seen on the voyeur's many video monitors. 1 - Brief rooftop scene, shown on the black and white monitor of the voyeur, in which a woman is thrown to her death after giving a faceless man a rather tame blowjob. 2 - Aliza, a bleached blonde with enhanced breasts, negotiates her deal with the real estate agent in true Private fashion. BJ, fucking (spoon, cowgirl, DS, reverse cowgirl, and standing.) Okay facial finish. 3 - A week later, a cute reddish/brunette does the faceless man in a room filled with videotapes. The man talks constantly in French, but is not translated on the subtitles. BJ, fucking (bent over table, cowgirl, missionary), anal (missionary, spoon, dogstyle). Nice dogstyle anal finish on her open asshole. I liked this woman - her smallish, natural breasts bounce prettily when she's fucking. One of the better scenes on the tape. 4 - Aliza slips out of a tight dress and into a bubble bath. Brief masturbation scene follows. Aliza has a hard time pretending she's aroused here, and the scene is not particularly hot. 4a - Non-sex linking scene, as the brunette from scene 3 is found dead in a dumpster. 5 - Aliza's blonde friend rings her doorbell. They exchange a few words to move the "plot" along, then we follow the blonde to her apartment, where her husband is entertaining a male friend. The hubby offers her to the friend. Brief cunnilingus by hubby, while she sucks the friend's enormous cock, then simultaneous fucking and sucking in cowgirl and spoon positions. Dogstyle anal follows by both the husband and the friend, then reverse anal cowgirl by the husband. A simulated DP is shown in medium shot only, no closeup, a surprising cheat in a Private tape. Double facial finish. The chemistry between the blonde and the big-dicked friend is good & his huge cock looks very nice in her tightly stretched ass. Unfortunately, the whole scene is undercut by the husband's inability to become more than half-erect for any length of time. He barely dribbles a few drops on her face in the finish. A shame, because if he'd delivered up as much as his friend, this would have been a memorable facial. 6 - Aliza shows up late for work. Her blonde coworker (enhanced breasts again!) follows her into her office, and lifts her skirt to show off her new panties. The boss catches them, and calls the coworker into his office. He makes her lift her skirt, then strip for him, and finally she lays across his desk and begins sucking his cock. He fucks her on the desk (missionary and dogstyle), after which they get into a 69. They uncouple and he has her dance for him on the desk. Then more fucking - cowgirl & reverse cowgirl, which then turns into a pretty forceful reverse anal cowgirl. Return to fucking for a moment, dogstyle, then dogstyle anal. Finish is a splattery and well-taken facial. Both of them were pretty enthusiastic in this scene, the hottest on the tape. 7 - Two cops show up at the door of a rich tenant and his two women, a blonde and a black-haired one, both with enhanced breasts. The man leaves after being questioned. When the cops ask the women what they've seen, they reply, "We're being kept by a rich guy who never fucks us." The cops do their public duty. Brief cunnilingus, then both women do cowgirl, reverse cowgirl, anal, reverse anal cowgirl, and DP. There are nice facials for both women. 8 - In a scene straight out of SLIVER, Aliza is picked up by one of her neighbors while jogging. They go back to his apartment to fuck. Cunnilingus, sucking, fucking (cowgirl, spoon, dogstyle), and anal (missionary and reverse anal cowgirl). She sucks him, and he cums some on her face and even more on her tits. After opening a bottle of champagne, the neighbor reveals himself to be the building's voyeur, and the title appears.... TO BE CONTINUED.... in THE TOWER II. COMMENTS This tape has all the signature Private elements: European scenery, high gloss production, excellent videography, and, of course, lots of Eurosluts performing sleazy sex acts. But I wasn't too thrilled with THE TOWER overall. For one thing, most of the women seemed to be going through the motions. Nice motions, to be sure - Private is too professional an outfit to let mediocrity completely overtake them at this stage of the game - but nobody stood out as being particularly into the sex. The only exception is the scene in the office, which has some of the familiar Private heat. The scene with the limp husband was inexcusable. If the actor couldn't get an erection, the director should have simply removed him from the scene and let the blonde and the big-dicked friend have at it. They were very good together, and the husband's presence really detracted from the scene. I haven't seen many of the more recent Private releases, and I hope the high percentage of breast-enhanced women in this tape is a fluke and not a new direction for the company. One of the reasons I like Eurosmut so much is the opportunity to see naturally endowed women. Aliza's breast job is forgivable in a way; she's a very large woman, with meaty long legs and a nice big ass, and her personality is such that one is led to believe she's genuinely happy with her enlarged chest. The others, though, are just wearing them, and not very well. (The brunette in the video library scene really stands out in contrast - her tiny breasts bounce and flutter most invitingly as she's getting fucked hard by the mystery man.) One more observation - the sex in THE TOWER is a little rougher than some of the other Private tapes I've seen. In nearly every scene, the men grab the women by the hair, slap them on the ass while fucking them, call them names, etc. If you really don't like that sort of thing, you might want to avoid the tape. To me it wasn't at all offputting (as it is, say, when TT Boy does it), since the Europeans seem more relaxed and comfortable with that sort of passion. Seeing it done well, I'm reminded how much I'd love to see Private do a true hardcore B&D tape! ========================================= =========================================