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  • Warning: Spoilers
    Okay, let's clear up one thing. This adult video has nothing to do with the Mafia. Its plot focuses on the activities of Italian people associated with a secret "brotherhood", but it's obviously not the Mafia as it includes men and women -- and the Mafia is notoriously a "no girls allowed" club.

    What it is, really, is a modern-day version of the legend of Cesar and Lucrecia Borgia. ("Legend" may be too strong a word, but "malicious gossip" is too weak.) Respectively played by David Perry and the gorgeous Julia Taylor, they're out to gain power and influence in the secret society, and employ intimidation, murder and -- surprise! -- lots and lots of sex to that end.

    Ironically, given the facts that the legend portrays their originals as incestuous, this updating is actually tamer. Perry and Taylor don't have sex with each other, though Taylor does watch him couple with Bettina (an attractive, dark complected woman from Holland, apparently) during the latter's initiation into the society. She also refuses to have sex with her half-brother, persuading him to do another woman (while she watches). Don't worry -- she more than makes up for it in a pair of scenes with two other guys.

    The worst problem with this exquisitely shot film, as with many of the Private films of its era, is that it was shot in Italian (I think) and then dubbed into various other languages, including English. And either the person who wrote the dub script was more concerned with getting a literal translation of the original than with something that actually made sense in English, or English was at best a second language to him or her. While much of the dialogue is understandable, large parts of it are completely incomprehensible.

    While it's a good flick, with lots of very hot carnal scenes, I can't really recommend it.
  • Mafia is in the title for commercial reasons, but maestro Antonio Adamo actually posits a fictional sort of Masonic order for this typical erotic drama of deadly goings-on in Naples, his home turf.

    Julia Taylor, Adamo's favorite gal, is in the title role, involved in nefarious activities loosely inspired by the historical Borgias clan. She's Lucretia and David Perry is Cesare to make it more obvious for us hard of hearing porn fans.

    David is actually the big cheese behind everything awful that happens, giving orders that must be obeyed. Story concerns a TV news network he owns named CSN in honor of Ted Turner's outfit, and poisoner Julia goes through husbands like bath water, all to serve the needs of Perry and the secret lodge/order he belongs to. A key subplot of incest for Perry, telegraphed by the Borgias back-story, is well-handled.

    The starry cast (guys with many thousands of Adult credits amassed collectively by now) includes Gabriel Montoya and Francesco Malcom as her victims, and has a beautiful supporting cast of ladies, per usual in an Adamo production. Notable among them is Bettina, the best of that rather tiny minority: Black actresses active in Euro Porn.

    Some minor location visuals of Naples help broaden out the show momentarily, but nearly all the action takes place on well-decorated sets in the studio. Deal-breaker for most viewers will be AA's insistence on smashing the fourth wall not once but hundreds of times, as he has his actresses constantly stepping out of character during the seven sex scenes and staring directly at the camera, his "maturbate freely" prompting to the lonely male viewer out there in Video Land. I wasn't watching his videos a decade or so ago, but what must have turned on audiences back then is quite ridiculous now.