Up The Gulf

From: Joey Markham 
Subject: REVIEW: "Up The Gulf"
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 98 15:11:29
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UP THE GULF
AFV Releasing, 1991.

director: Frank Thring
approx. running time: 71 mins.

cast: Sunny McKay, Cameo, Taylor Wane, Felina (Selina) Fabre, Ron Jeremy,
Wayne Summers, Don Fernando; Frank Thring (non-sex).

* Separately, I've seen Ms. Fabre billed as both Felina and Selina in some
videos.  Here she's billed as Selina but I chose to stick with Felina
because of it's cat-like sounding nature.

* Fernando was given second billing under Don Gomez, for playing the part
of an Arab terrorist when he also played the part of a 'good guy' in the
opening (billed under Fernando).  Perhaps another actor bailed out of the
project at the last minute, whom Don took over for.

scenes:
 - Sunny McKay, Don Fernando
 - Felina Fabre (anal, dp), Ron Jeremy, Don Fernando
 - Cameo, Taylor Wane
 - Taylor Wane, Felina Fabre, Ron Jeremy
 - Sunny McKay, Cameo, Wayne Summers

Ron plays a U.S. observer for some United Nation group, who's working in
Beirut.  The movie opens with him strolling down a sidewalk and whistling.
Along drives an Arab terrorist who stops and motions for Jeremy to hop
inside (this is at gunpoint, by the way).  We later discover (through a
bit of narration over the opening credits) that a note has been left
claiming he will not be released until all U.S. troops have left the
Persian Gulf.

Enter his daughter, Sunny, who pays Don a visit (he works for some sort of
State department) and asks for his help in finding her father.  When he
tells her that foreigners are not exactly welcome in Beirut, she assures
him she can take care of herself - mentioning that she has a blackbelt in
judo, that she can shoot, swim, and ride a motorcycle better than half the
guys she knows.  Don says, "Point taken.  You're one macho lady.  So what
are you going to do?  BLAST your way into Beirut?"  Instead, he suggests
she try to find a well known journalist (Frank Thring) who knows Beirut
like the back of his hand and perhaps they could sneak into the country
and find her father together.

Over in Beirut, Ron and another U.N. worker (French starlet Felina - whose
character name is that of early 90's Euro-star Miss Pomodoro) are thrown
in the slammer by Arab leader Wayne Summers (who sports an accent).  He
tells Ron to sign some statements to the U.S. government stating to take
their troops out of the middle east.  When Ron says he can't do that,
Wayne tells them, "You Americans have statement I like very much.  'Fuck
you asshole'!"  Felina asks, "You think that's funny?  'Fuck you asshole'?"
"Perhaps we shall see for once you Americans practice what you preach."
Ron asks, "Now what are you talking about?"  "I want you to fuck her in the
ass."  Make that, he has to fuck her in the ass - or die.  "That's ok.  I
enjoy anal sex," Felina assures Ron.

Back in America, Sunny somehow locates Frank (and what follows is a brief,
yet poorly poorly staged segment of Ms. McKay hitting Frank with her hand
[kind of like a karate chop] to make him drop the knife which he holds
against her in his state of panic - not knowing who she is and all).  So
they are introduced and she asks for his help in locating her dad.  But
first, he needs his memory machine (which happens to be a bottle of booze).
She wonders about posing as a Canadian journalist out to get an interview
and, after a while, they decide to go with that idea.  (Frank makes a crack
at Sunny's nationality, since Ms. McKay hails from the land of down under,
when he casually mentions Sydney in a long speech he makes.  Thring, who
has an English or Australian accent himself, carries dialog well and seems
like the type of actor one would find in a Shakespeare theatrical
production).

Once they reach Beirut, they are spotted out by Wayne and his fellow
henchman Don (but not the same character that Sunny met up with in the
beginning of course).  Frank tells them she's a journalist and Wayne
decides to grant her an interview for ten thousand dollars.  So he takes
off with Sunny (once Thring tells Wayne that her newspaper will pay) and
Don heads off in another direction with Frank.

Over in Wayne's den, two wenches (Cameo, Taylor) pass some time by
watching a porno movie (the brief clips we see are from "Deep Throat 3"),
which inevitably leads them to doing eachother.  When Wayne and Sunny show
up, he asks, "Do you think they are sexy, American girl?"  She replies,
"Yes.  They're very sexy.  But I'm Canadian, actually."  As another crack
about Sunny's origin, Wayne retorts, "Canadian, American.. Australian..
who cares?"

Taylor ends up bringing some food to the prisoners and she informs Felina
that she saw her getting fucked in the cell earlier, which got her very
excited.  Then she ends up getting some lessons on how to fuck 'really
well' (to please Wayne in their spare time together I guess?) - with Ron's
help (who will do anything it takes to escape from the prison).

Cutting back to the den, Wayne finishes off his interview with Sunny
(whatever they discussed) and then decides to move onto something
different - telling Cameo to make herself useful by putting a tape in the
vcr.  "Do you enjoy watching sex on tv?" he asks Sunny.  "Not really," she
replies.  He says he prefers sex to drugs and alcohol but they are both
forbidden in his country.  Then she says she also prefers sex - but the
real thing, instead of looking at it or talking about it (which segues
into the final scene).

Finally, Sunny holds Don at gunpoint after demanding from Wayne that he
take her to his prisoners.  Fernando opens the cell and is then told by
the rifle-toting Aussie to get inside, while the two jailbirds are set
free (Summers is nowhere to be found at this point).  Ron happily hugs
his daughter and kisses the side of her face twice (I believe this is the
closest physical contact Sunny and Ron have ever had in porn), then they
all take off with a car waiting for them outside.  The end.

The first scene with Sunny and Don takes place on a leather upholstered
couch.  Sunny (curly dirty-blonde hair past shoulder length) is wearing a
black and white striped dress and black heels.  As they're kissing, Don
pulls back and looks more closely at her.  "Hey, you're one sexy lady!"
he compliments.  In return she grins, "And you.. you're one great guy."
Moments later, we cut to Sunny laying back on the couch with her dress
already taken off but she has on a sexy one-piece black garter belt and
nylon attire.  Slender but not bony, I've always thought Sunny had one of
the best natural bodies in the business.  What kept changing was the style
of her hair.  Sometimes she appeared with it completely straight (which
was more of a golden blonde color), other times her bangs were curly with
the rest still straight, and the majority of the time it was completely
curly.  I liked the variety, but several times the curly-ness of it made
her hair look a little too puffy or not styled properly with parts of it
sticking out in odd places.  That aside however, she has always remained
on my number one list even now that she has left the business behind (and
I can only hope for a comeback).

As Don licks her clit gently (her pussy's a little hairy), she moans, "Do
you do this to all your clients?"  She also plays with her small breasts
and sucks her finger.  Enjoying the gradual pace of his tongue, Sunny
tells him to tease her.  "Tease you or please you?" he then asks.  "How
about both?" she responds.  A missionary follows with her right leg raised
and her foot on his shoulder as he reaches forward and grabs her breasts.
Shifting over into the doggy position, Don licks her pussy a bit more
before probing her with his dick again.  When he inserts, we momentarily
cut to them doing doggy from the other end of the couch.  Sunny's moans
and writhes gradually get louder.  They go back to mish again briefly
before Don pulls out and cums on her chest.  He brings his dick closer to
her face and she twirls her tongue around the head of it.

The second scene with Felina and Ron takes place in a jail cell.  Ms.
Fabre is an attractive blonde french girl (early-to-mid 20's) with fairly
hairy pubes, nice natural breasts, and whose slightly past-shoulder length
hair has a bit of a punkish style to it.  She's dressed in black as she
and Ron start kissing but then when we cut to an anal-mish (no condom) as
they lay on a white mattress, she's naked apart from wearing black heels
and a necklace (with a pendant on it).  Ron does a few complete in-and-out
probes and Felina sticks two fingers in her pussy.

Wayne gets fellow Arab Don to join in and as he undresses, staying close
to Felina's face to prepare for a blowjob, Ron mutters, "I guess we're
contributing the most to world peace right now.  Why don't we join hands
and sing we are the world?"  With Don's cock now exposed and Ms. Fabre
putting it in her mouth, Ron looks over and says something about how Arabs
don't seem to have much in the dick department.  When Don removes his
shirt, he puts it over Ron's head because he doesn't want to see his 'ugly
face' (both Jeremy and Fernando just seem casual about this, and not
genuinely angry at eachother).  Ron sniffs the shirt on his head and
sarcastically remarks, "At least this Arab showers.  That's a switch."
Acting confused (and speaking with an utterly lame accent), Don asks,
"Shower?  What is this?"  "Thought so," Ron mutters.  With the hedgehog
still fucking Felina's ass as her mouth is stuffed, he tells her, "Careful
you don't swallow it.  He needs it to pee with once in a while."  [Kind of
a strange thing to say, especially since she's sucking down on it.  But of
course, if she were into the golden shower scene...]

Next Don fucks her pussy in mish (asking her, "You like, American bitch?")
as Ron kisses her and licks her right nipple.  Felina then does a cowgirl
with Don as Ron momentarily goes behind to pump her ass.  Decently shot,
but in one angle we see Don's limp dick slip out of her pussy.  Later, Don
and Felina go back to screwing in mish before he pops on her belly which
she smears around.  Ron tells him, "Nice orgasm, Arab.  You deprived your
camel."  Jeremy then pops on Felina's chin and neck - with the first few
squirts flying past her face.  She licks his cock and as she sucks the
head, we fade out on them.

The third scene, a lesbian bout between Cameo and Taylor, takes place on a
leather upholstered couch.  Both ladies are wearing opened shirts with
bras underneath, frayed jean shorts, and knee high boots (Cameo's are of
white leather and I'm not too sure about Taylor's but they have a sort of
greyish glittered design).  I'm not too keen on Taylor's boobs but I think
they're fake because she shows a knack for cupping them as if to hide
scars, and in some shots her arm's not there making her boobs look a
little saggy as if weighed down by implants.  She has part of her shoulder
length blonde hair up in a ponytail on top.  Cameo is natural chested
here, and her pretty face reminds me of a less-poutier looking Jill Kelly
(and they both happened to be linked to the late Cal Jammer once upon a
time; separately of course).  Her dirty blonde hair goes a bit past
shoulder length.

With their shirts taken off, as well as Ms. Wane's bra, Cameo starts
licking her nipples.  Then Cameo's bra is removed and Taylor returns the
favor.  Later, Cameo's jean shorts come off and Taylor licks her pussy
from behind.  When Taylor removes her shorts as well, she ends up face-
sitting Cameo and bucking herself around as her pussy gets licked (both
women have fairly hairy pubes).  Later, a dildo is brought into the scene
and used on Cameo first, then on Taylor afterwards.  This is basically a
back and forth scene with no 69 action.  Both girls are moaners (Taylor a
bit more than Cameo) and they each reach a small climax with the dildo.

The fourth scene with Taylor, Felina, and Ron offered the most heat (but
that's not saying a *whole* lot, in comparison to the other scenes).  In
the jail cell, Taylor brings them some food but they end up 'feasting' on
eachother.  She unties their restraints and begins kissing Ron.  She's
wearing the same attire that preceded her g/g scene.  As they both get
comfy on a mattress, Felina (wearing dark clothing with a red inner lining
by her chest) just watches and masturbates.  Taylor removes her top and
shorts (remaining in a bra) before being licked out by Ron.  At one point,
she also raises herself up and down as Ron just sticks out his tongue and
wiggles it on her clit, later inserting his middle finger in her pussy.  A
closer look at Taylor's knee-high boots seem to show a leopard-spotted
design (as opposed to the greyish glittery way I described them in her
previous scene).

Ron motions for Felina to join them, and she does.  She lays back and has
her pussy licked by Taylor (bra still on), who gets it doggy style from
Ron.  Ms. Fabre also raises herself later to play with Ms. Wane's boobs a
bit (whose bra is now gone, and Felina is down to just wearing black
heels).  Taylor and Ron perform a semi-vigorous doggy.  He later walks
over and stands up against the wall as the two blondes give him head.
Felina sucks while Taylor licks his balls, then Taylor eventually gives
him head too.

When they head back to the mattress, Ron does a mish with Taylor (whose
right leg is raised with her foot on his shoulder) as Felina rubs her
[Wane's] clit.  Then Felina climbs on top of Taylor (face to face, not a
69) and Ron fucks both girls, going from pussy to pussy.  Taylor sucks on
Felina's boobs briefly, Felina reaches behind and rubs Taylor's clit a
bit, and there is some looping in this segment.  By the end of it, Ron
cums on Felina's right buttock/leg and Taylor's pussy.  The girls then
move over to Ron and bring their heads close to his cock, twirling their
tongues around the head of it.

The final threeway with Sunny, Cameo, and Wayne is short.  Cameo (who
starts off wearing what she did before her lez scene) is naked apart from
the white knee-high boots and Sunny (whose hair is put up in a bun) is
completely nude - not even wearing heels.  Sunny first goes down on Cameo,
giving her clit a gentle tonguing and sucking on her pussy lip a few
times.  McKay then moves over to Summers and gives him head while Cameo
licks her out from behind.  Wayne screws Cameo in mish as Sunny face-sits
her, and at one point he lowers himself down to get a taste of Sunny's
pussy too (but Cameo's mouth is not on McKay's muff at that time).
Picking up the pace for just a few seconds, Wayne reaches orgasm and ends
up cumming near (but not on) Cameo's pussy.

CONCLUSION: This one-day wonder type of video has average quality, a
storyline not very well executed (but had a workable enough premise - the
script just needed more work), and sex scenes that don't offer much heat.
I thought the Ron/Felina/Taylor pussy-to-pussy fuck and the Ron/Taylor
doggy were the hottest moments.  The other scenes contained marginal heat
but I found the g/g to be a 'for the money' kind of performance.  Being a
huge fan of Sunny's, I thought that "Up The Gulf" would have been right up
my alley since she was the lead star.. but I was disappointed.  However,
she was featured quite a bit throughout the tape so that kept me watching.
This is basically just another ordinary porn tape that dodges any
recommendation list.


Joey Markham ([email protected])
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