NEVER SO DEEP presents a return to burlesque territory director Damiano explored in his earlier, less pretentious work like MEATBALL and duh ! DEEP THROAT. It's a welcome reminder that he can kid around with the best of them and a sterling sex flick to boot.
Private eye Ginger Trueheart (fan favorite Loni Sanders, star of Shaun Costello's all too aptly named BEAUTY) and sidekick Sam Strong (her then real life husband Mike Ranger) are summoned to the mansion of girlie magazine magnate Huge Heffer (veteran performer Paul Thomas, who played Peter under his real name in Norman Jewison's Jesus Christ SUPERSTAR !) with the assignment to track down a girl he met one drunken night. All he remembers is the butterfly tattoo on her butt and her uncanny ability to down great lengths of the male sex organ ! This zany premise takes our heroes to the seamier side of San Francisco in the early 80s with all sorts of hot action along the way.
Ranger trades oral favors with Tara Aire (a/k/a "Bobbi Jackson" on John Christopher's BABE) at the mansion and gets to sample the throats of Brooke West (PLAYING WITH FIRE), Sonya Sommers (WICKED SENSATIONS) and Victoria Slick (BABY CAKES) in the line of duty. Peepshow booth babe Lynx Cannon (billed as "Jean Damage" just like she was on Fred Lincoln's SAME TIME EVERY YEAR) and prostitute Anna Turner (THE MISTRESS) manage to identify the Mystery Miss as going by the name of "Brandy Wine" (Maria Tortuga, a lusty Latina who provided heated support in tons of 70s and 80s features), now working as an assistant on TV commercials directed by the ridiculously pompous Carlo Bellafondue (a very funny turn by Richard Pacheco). As Ginger goes undercover, trying to land the lead in a personal hygiene infomercial (!) by pleasing both director and sponsor Mike Horner, Hef tries to take his mind of things with the help of Miss November (honey blonde Lysa Thatcher, sad-eyed star of Damiano's THE SATISFIERS OF ALPHA BLUE) who stages a tryst with fellow-Misses May and December (Tigr and Ingrid Pierce) with artful lighting and composition obscuring the ladies' faces while highlighting certain other aspects of their anatomy.
Damiano throws in so many little funny bits of business, that it's virtually impossible to properly summarize this flick within the space allotted by IMDb. Rest assured that you'll be entertained as well as aroused throughout the entire brisk running time. Acting is solid, with the director cautious not to push any performer beyond her or his limitations, so Sanders mostly gets to be adorably giggly, Ranger gets to do his deadpan routine and so forth. Camera was manned once again by "Harry Flecks", i.e. real Hollywood alumnus Joao Fernandez, so you can bet your rear end the movie looks like a million bucks with car rides across town and hang-gliding footage supplying production value. What you see is what you get, contrary to a lot of Damiano's more ambitious stuff like ODYSSEY or STORY OF JOANNA, and that is fun, fun, fun !
Private eye Ginger Trueheart (fan favorite Loni Sanders, star of Shaun Costello's all too aptly named BEAUTY) and sidekick Sam Strong (her then real life husband Mike Ranger) are summoned to the mansion of girlie magazine magnate Huge Heffer (veteran performer Paul Thomas, who played Peter under his real name in Norman Jewison's Jesus Christ SUPERSTAR !) with the assignment to track down a girl he met one drunken night. All he remembers is the butterfly tattoo on her butt and her uncanny ability to down great lengths of the male sex organ ! This zany premise takes our heroes to the seamier side of San Francisco in the early 80s with all sorts of hot action along the way.
Ranger trades oral favors with Tara Aire (a/k/a "Bobbi Jackson" on John Christopher's BABE) at the mansion and gets to sample the throats of Brooke West (PLAYING WITH FIRE), Sonya Sommers (WICKED SENSATIONS) and Victoria Slick (BABY CAKES) in the line of duty. Peepshow booth babe Lynx Cannon (billed as "Jean Damage" just like she was on Fred Lincoln's SAME TIME EVERY YEAR) and prostitute Anna Turner (THE MISTRESS) manage to identify the Mystery Miss as going by the name of "Brandy Wine" (Maria Tortuga, a lusty Latina who provided heated support in tons of 70s and 80s features), now working as an assistant on TV commercials directed by the ridiculously pompous Carlo Bellafondue (a very funny turn by Richard Pacheco). As Ginger goes undercover, trying to land the lead in a personal hygiene infomercial (!) by pleasing both director and sponsor Mike Horner, Hef tries to take his mind of things with the help of Miss November (honey blonde Lysa Thatcher, sad-eyed star of Damiano's THE SATISFIERS OF ALPHA BLUE) who stages a tryst with fellow-Misses May and December (Tigr and Ingrid Pierce) with artful lighting and composition obscuring the ladies' faces while highlighting certain other aspects of their anatomy.
Damiano throws in so many little funny bits of business, that it's virtually impossible to properly summarize this flick within the space allotted by IMDb. Rest assured that you'll be entertained as well as aroused throughout the entire brisk running time. Acting is solid, with the director cautious not to push any performer beyond her or his limitations, so Sanders mostly gets to be adorably giggly, Ranger gets to do his deadpan routine and so forth. Camera was manned once again by "Harry Flecks", i.e. real Hollywood alumnus Joao Fernandez, so you can bet your rear end the movie looks like a million bucks with car rides across town and hang-gliding footage supplying production value. What you see is what you get, contrary to a lot of Damiano's more ambitious stuff like ODYSSEY or STORY OF JOANNA, and that is fun, fun, fun !