Playboy discovered her. Home video made her a star. In fact, MORE horndogs have fast-forwarded through MORE Shannon Tweed flicks than those of every other busty B-Queen combined. Whether playing a shrink or a stripper she was six luscious feet of sensuality and class who, with her sultry video covers, had an unmatched ability to keep rental registers ringing well through the ’90s. Those Night Eyes flicks with Andrew Stevens. The immortal Last Call. Ah, memories. Yet, it’s dern near impossible to go wrong with ANY Tweed flick as evidenced by Forbidden Sins (1998, 86 minutes).
The movie: Kinky sex and a strangled stripper land real estate tycoon David Mulholland (Corby Timbrook) in court with a murder charge and enough crooked-cop evidence to land him in the pokey for a long, long time. Ms. Tweed plays his able-bodied defense attorney, and toward the end of the flick, his after hours Twister partner. Her brooding investigative minion Brian (Timothy Vale) does the dirty work of ferreting out the sorted truth of the unfortunate dancer’s death one table dance at a time. Ultimately bagging a case-making lead while pumping erotic entertainer Molly Malone (Amy Lindsay) for information. In all, there’s a bit more drama in the courtroom than the bedroom, but Molly’s antics are certainly delish. The "shocking" double-cross finale is typical of the erotic thriller genre. Although, perhaps a bullet-between-the-eyes MORE ferocious than most.
CineSchlockers enamoured with Ms. Lindsay should track down an out-of-print disc called Girls of the ‘B’ Movies featuring interviews and seductive contortions by Amy and other starlets such as Griffin Drew, Shauna O’Brien and CineSchlocker fave Linnea Quigley (who keeps her clothes on).
Notables: 22 breasts. Two corpses. Multiple diddling (Six quick-cut scenes). Novelty cigarette-lighter gun. Gratuitous polygraph scene. Lawyer speak. Mace to the eyes. Gratuitous strip club deejay.
Quotables: Mulholland to his booty call playmate, "You like when they look at you, don’t you! You like to show off like some cheap street whore!" But chirps an angelic tune to his leggy defense attorney, "I’m not looking for a Johnny Cochran who can get me off using smoke and mirrors."
Time codes: Ms. Tweed joins the flick (11:10). Molly Malone does her crowd-pleasing schoolgirl striptease (19:33). Freeze-frame pervert’s delight (33:36). Molly accepts a late-night contribution to her Hawaiian vacation fund (55:55). Shannon FINALLY gets down to business (1:09:15).