The main advantage a producer has with shooting a soft-rated feature is that he has the pick of the choicest models in creation.  Here, you have five dazzling beauties in a cute, sexy feature that will certainly have you thinking more positively about the direction alternative adult programming seems to be taking.

If you remember the old Love: American Style TV show, this current edition of CPV's new series of The Ladies Club should jog some memories.

This time out, a poker game (what, no strip poker like in Dallas School Girls?) is focal point of a series of stories in which gals relay their conquests.  We have terrific photography, a script (really), with genuine acting, transition scenes, pickup shots, outdoor footage.  Yikes, you'd think this was a prime time TV show or something.

The vignettes are exceptionally well done.  One of the gals is an actress/singer/dancer and has been having an ongoing battle with her downstairs neighbor over noise pollution.  She's never met him, of course, but does so accidentally under another set of circumstances - he thinks she's a maid and engages her to come clean his place.  Now, all the gals are female activists, so that makes it interesting.  It sets up an interesting seduction sequence and the expected humor.  Other skits haul out the tried and truisms like a rehearsal, a tutoring session, cat burglar themes, etc. with refreshing new wrinkles here and there and lots of cuddling, hugging and flesh pressing.  Of course, in the grand finale one of the gals, "Chris," who's getting married, gets center stage with a male strip-o-gram.

In keeping with cable format (refer to this month's feature on pay-per-view), Ladies Club - Poker Game has all the elements going for it, and the next edition promises to go one step further - film.  That should be interesting.  A series that's proving a real winner.

(Source: Cinema Products Video, (213) 850-6500)