The Presidio

The Presidio (1988) is a mismatched cop whodunit with a better-than-usual cast which includes Sean Connery, Mark Harmon and Meg Ryan. Connery is the Provost Martial at The Presidio, a very old fort in the Northwest corner of San Francisco. Mark Harmon used to work for him as an MP. When Harmon roughed up an officer while arresting him for drunk and disorderly, Connery took the officer's side, and Harmon left the Army and became a city cop. When a female MP and two SFPD officers are murdered, it is a multi-jurisdictional investigation, and the two enemies must work together. To make things even more difficult, Harmon starts dating Connery's daughter.

Sometimes, viewers bring something which greatly increases their enjoyment of a film, and that was the case with me and this film. I am a big Connery fan, and this part feels like it was written for him. I also like Meg Ryan. The biggest thing to me, however, is the location. I spend a lot of time where this film was shot. In an early scene, they mention Fort Point, which is a very old fort under the south end of the Golden Gate. The murder takes place at an officer's club on the Presidio, a building I drive by frequently. The ensuing car chase, where the officers are killed, starts at the Arquello Gate, which is at the south end of the Presidio, and is the gate I most often use, as it is a nearly direct route to Wing Lee's Chinese Restaurant and Bakery, our usual lunch when we are in "The City." There are also two scenes in the veteran's cemetery at the North edge of the Presidio. In fact, I not only recognized all of the areas in the film, I knew most of the buildings. The Presidio is now mostly a national park, as is Fort Point. So, to me, watching the film is a wonderful experience.

For those with no predisposition to enjoy it, it is probably a competent but lackluster genre effort. There is nothing particularly remarkable about the plot or the ending, which, in fact, is predictable.

IMDb readers say 5.7.

Meg  Ryan shows her breasts from the side in a dark sex scene, but only in the region 2 DVD. Don NOT get the Region 1 version, from which the nudity has been cut. Here's a region two link from an American importer. (Click on pic)

As always, if you are interested in an all-region DVD player, Rare Licensed DVDs has the deal: (click on pic for info)

Meg Ryan

Re-Animator

Today it's a "Babe In Bondage" day as the Time Machine travels back to 1985 for the luscious Barbara Crampton in Re-Animator. Barbara gets all tied up and in the process shows lots of booby and even a little full frontal. Sadly, things don't end well for her.

 

Cuentos Eroticos

This Spanish movie consist of 9 erotic shorts. It was done in 1979 and it has some very explicit scenes done by mainstream actors of the time. On the shorts you can watch something simple as a couple spending a weekend together, or as depraved as a woman who drowns in her pool while watched by a peeping neighbor who does nothing to help her and then has sex with her dead body. There's one about a guy who collects medieval stuff and uses it on her wife on the wedding night, another of a lesbian couple who lives with a kid who turns out to be a girl, and a finale about  having sex under the blankets - but then a lot of different people start to come out from the under the blankets, a Nun, an angry Japanese guy, a woman that looks like she was raped, a transvestite, etc.