The Patrick Swayze flick, Road House, proved you can re-tool just about any old gunslinger script, throw in a couple of beach boy-types, a few babes in high heels, a little T & A and have a field day at the boxoffice.

The same thing, basically, happens in A Sensuous Summer which has wild west melodrama written all over it. Blond-haired Bobby (tom case) who looks like he fell out of an old Warner Brother TV show from the 1960s, plays a drifter of sorts who's returned to his roots to square things with his brother Nick (Dash Tombrowski - how's that for a name?)

The setting is a lake resort where everyone happens to be cosmetically-perfect. Nick (he looks like a smoldering Kevin Klein) owns a marina which is on the verge of foreclosure by the town bad guy Alex (A.G. Roerto) the banker. There's several loose threads in the plot, and we never really get the full glint of why Bobby and Nick are at odds, though we do know it has something to do with their father passing away.

To make things visually compelling, there's some romance (and skin) tossed on the fire and some absolutely gratuitous (that's the best kind) slo-mo dream sequences in which naked women float around on a beach. The film heads toward the inevitable showdown at the OK Corral, only instead of pisotleros, Bobby and Alex go at it in a kind of Melorse mano e mano. They have a water skiiing competition - just like they used to settle differences in the Old Gidget movies.

Forgiving a plot contrivance here and there, you'll find A Sensuous Summer entertaining enough with more than a few decent moments of erotica that should help it play well in the alternative adult market.