Trouble

"Trouble" was shot in Spain in 1995, part of a mult-picture coproduction between Adam & Eve's Ultimate Pictures banner and Italian company Capital Film. It's less ambitious than the other projects "Carmen" and Joe D'Amato's "Flamenco Ecstasy", but is entertaining nonetheless.

Chief drawback is poor English-language dubbing, with even male star from the U.S. Steven St. Croix given, jarringly, a different voice.

Story is quite simple, sort of in the "Bad Influence" school, recalling that 1990 mini-classic feature starring Rob Lowe and James Spader. Alan (Eros Cristaldi) and his lovely wife Monica Orsini are vacatioining on the coast of Spain, where neighbor at their hotel St. Croix keeps pestering Alan into living it up in a life of debauchery, centering on his own wife played in fiery fashion by American superstar to be Taylor Hayes (who would sign a Vivid Video contract that catapulted her to the top of the Adult movie charts).

The film (shot in 35mm) concerns Alan's reistance to St. Croix's conniving influence until he finally gives in, and both he and his wife become libertines. Nine XXX scenes later the movie ends, unsatisfactorily, with a long shot of them walking along the sea, for a freeze frame that leaves hanging how the excessive sex has affected their marriage.

Hayes, Orsini and the supporting femme cast are hot, hot, hot, accomplishing exactly what the film set out to do. It is interesting to watch nowadays, over 20 years later, to recall how ambitious porn was back in the glory days, perhaps now only carrying forward in the glamorous Marc Dorcel productions shot on location with imported American stars (recently Megan Rain, Mia Malkova and Adriana Chechik).