Lolita - Voll geil

The late Sam Weston's directorial swan song. In spite of what you may read elsewhere, all subsequent 'Anthony Spinelli' movies were helmed by his son Mitch as Sam suffered a severe stroke shortly after completing this excellent adult drama.

Always a great storyteller as well as a sterling actor's director, Weston elicited career performances out of Ona Zee (already well established as a porno queen with considerable thespian prowess) and Tina Tyler (for whom this was a launching pad to a top flight career in the adult industry) as the anti-heroines of this surprisingly downbeat film. Zee is the older but not wiser temptress whose ever increasing number of lovers masks a deep-seated fear of advancing age and loneliness, while Tyler plays her painfully shy roommate who looks up to her until Ona carelessly destroys her friend's budding relationship with a very youthful, amiably goofy Jon Dough by adding the guy to her rotating roster of bedroom buddies.

Beautifully produced (Sam wouldn't have wanted it any other way...), this is a great, character-driven adult movie that treats you like a member of that age group. Dialogue rings true as do the sexual situations, the pivotal confrontation between the two actresses a particular standout. Sadly, Weston's no longer with us. He was the genre's greatest director as far as I'm concerned. Someday, truth will out...