The garbled credits for director and producer give an unwarranted air of mystery to the forgotten Sin City video "Tango", a rather pretentious disaster meant to spotlight Jessica Drake (and her then better-known half Evan Stone), prior to her breakout career over at Wicked Pictures.
"Bill Maroni" is credited on-screen with directing, and the only IMDb credit I could find for him is flunky status on Bud Lee's 1993 video "Centerfold". Even stranger is "Judy Blue" listed as producer in the opening credits, while "Johnni Pharmie" gets to be producer in the end credits. Judy Blue is Paul Thomas, while the latter guy is Jon Pharmacia, a still photographer not a producer. Thomas didn't work for Sin City, having cranked out innumerable Vivid releases during this time frame.
On to the feature itself: it consists of Tony Tedeschi and Kelsey Heart sitting at the bar, watching a mature lady tango dancing solo nearby. They wonder what gives, and we're treated to a flashback story of what caused the lady to observe this Wednesday ritual.
Turns out that she's supposedly the older age version of star Jessica Drake's character - a bride-to-be bamboozled by evil cheesecake photographer Steven St. Croix. Quicker than you can recite "Frankie & Johnny were sweethearts...", we are led to a climax where Drake shoots St. Croix, and her future bridegroom Evan Stone takes the rap. So she's carrying a torch for the big lug, while in real life they were splitsville after he introduced her to the Adult biz in early features like this one, before Ms. Drake easily eclipsed the stud in porn history.
It's poorly staged and lousily constructed, either too predictable or merely corny according to one's point-of-view. Where's the panache? Why is the lady dancer not credited apart from being anonymously listed at the end among a group of extras? Why are the sex scenes featuring Drake, Kelsey, the divine Chennin Blanc (misspelled "Chinnin" during opening credits) and guest star/filler Taylor St. Clair so ho-hum? And what about a matronly porn actress known as Adajja who figures prominently in the story when she seduces house-painter Stone but is the lamest casting by a major Adult label I can recall?
To mount my worn-out soapbox one more once, it's botched narratives like "Tango" which have helped create the gonzo morass that constitutes Adult Cinema today - fans rightly have no patience with crap like this and have unwisely retreated to a diet (and veneration for) of all-sex content -when in fact there are hundreds if not thousands of great story-line Adult features out there if one only cares to seek them out.
"Bill Maroni" is credited on-screen with directing, and the only IMDb credit I could find for him is flunky status on Bud Lee's 1993 video "Centerfold". Even stranger is "Judy Blue" listed as producer in the opening credits, while "Johnni Pharmie" gets to be producer in the end credits. Judy Blue is Paul Thomas, while the latter guy is Jon Pharmacia, a still photographer not a producer. Thomas didn't work for Sin City, having cranked out innumerable Vivid releases during this time frame.
On to the feature itself: it consists of Tony Tedeschi and Kelsey Heart sitting at the bar, watching a mature lady tango dancing solo nearby. They wonder what gives, and we're treated to a flashback story of what caused the lady to observe this Wednesday ritual.
Turns out that she's supposedly the older age version of star Jessica Drake's character - a bride-to-be bamboozled by evil cheesecake photographer Steven St. Croix. Quicker than you can recite "Frankie & Johnny were sweethearts...", we are led to a climax where Drake shoots St. Croix, and her future bridegroom Evan Stone takes the rap. So she's carrying a torch for the big lug, while in real life they were splitsville after he introduced her to the Adult biz in early features like this one, before Ms. Drake easily eclipsed the stud in porn history.
It's poorly staged and lousily constructed, either too predictable or merely corny according to one's point-of-view. Where's the panache? Why is the lady dancer not credited apart from being anonymously listed at the end among a group of extras? Why are the sex scenes featuring Drake, Kelsey, the divine Chennin Blanc (misspelled "Chinnin" during opening credits) and guest star/filler Taylor St. Clair so ho-hum? And what about a matronly porn actress known as Adajja who figures prominently in the story when she seduces house-painter Stone but is the lamest casting by a major Adult label I can recall?
To mount my worn-out soapbox one more once, it's botched narratives like "Tango" which have helped create the gonzo morass that constitutes Adult Cinema today - fans rightly have no patience with crap like this and have unwisely retreated to a diet (and veneration for) of all-sex content -when in fact there are hundreds if not thousands of great story-line Adult features out there if one only cares to seek them out.