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Spanish Rose has the perfect cast for
a B movie in the erotic-thriller genre.
First,
smouldering Michael Paré (Streets of Fire, 1984) as
the rugged hero, rebel cop and dynamite lover. Second, menacing Michael Ironside
(Scanners, 1981) as the rich, possessive, psychotic
crime lord. And third, exotic Barbara Carrera (Loverboy, 1989) as Ironside's
wife, who glides about purring aphorisms like: “A man's secrets rest with his
woman.”
Paré,
fired from the police force for righteous insubordination, is hired by Ironside
as Carrera's bodyguard. In an unfussy amalgam of classic film noir plots
(especially Jacques Tourneur's Out of the
Past, 1947), Pare is soon transgressing the laws laid down by his boss by
both investigating his shady affairs and sleeping with his enigmatic wife.
Bob
Misiorowski directs this familiar material with little flair. But any movie
that sets a steamy sex scene to the strains of "Bamboleo" by The
Gipsy Kings has to be worth something.
© Adrian Martin 1993 |
