Babylon Pink 3

Writer-director Henri Pachard made a wonderful little porn movie, notable for the fine performances by its all-star ensemble cast, and its very amusing vulgar dialogue. It unfolds on screen like a dirty off-Broadway play, only with explicit sex.

Ona Zee plays a shrink who fantasizes about sex with her patients, of both sexes. The patients, including top-billed Shanna McCullough, Nikki Knights and Robert Bullock, interact with the other characters and the result could almost constitute a mainstream movie -except that the sex wouldn't pack the same punch just simulated.

The talent is on their best behavior, notably Joey Silvera and Jerry Butler as hard hats who cheat on their wives. The silliness and overacting that permeates hundreds of Joey and Jerry performances is absent here -clearly Pachard kept them on short leashes.

Ona Zee is terrific as a shrink who definitely needs a shrink, while Bullock demonstrates his range, being a monstrous male chauvinist when pouring out his true feelings on Ona's office couch, but an appealing and shy guy hanging out at the "Geary Club" bar where Shanna works as bartender and Sharon Kane is a barfly fixture.

This is a feel-good Adult Video, easily lost in the shuffle of so many thousands of VHS releases, but worth discovering.