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Black Brigade
Rating: 3 Stars
Produced, written and directed by Paul Barresi. Videography by Eddie Max, John Simms, and Tomaso Paganucci. Edited by Kevin Glover. Starring Corey Cox, Paul Morgan, Winston Love, Bobby Blake, Andre Bolla, Dennis Lincoln, Jason Kelley, Charles Cameron, Troy Steele, and Paul Baressi.
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It's 1865. As the Civil War draws to a close, members of a all-black Union Army contingent (cousin to the 54th Massachusetts Regiment celebrated in the film Glory), gather for a soirée. During the course of the evening, a messenger appears to tell them that Lee has surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, and the war is over. Abraham Lincoln himself (pornstar Troy Steele in a beard and stovepipe hat) appears to congratulate the men on a job well done.

Celebration is in order. In the world of Paul Baressi, that means lots of hot, aggressive sex. Paul Morgan, the only white sexual performer, plays a Confederate prisoner who loves servicing his black captors. ("It sure beats whistling Dixie.") Dennis Lincoln, Charles Cameron and Jason Kelley have an intense three-way in a barn. General Corey Cox, who lights up the screen whenever he appears, barely stops short of bursting into flame as he fucks Morgan. Barresi gives himself an over-the-top cameo as a cigar-smoking dirtball officer given to sniffing a pair of souvenir panties from a Southern "girly-girl" who must have patronized some Rebel branch of Victoria's Secret.

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Not even Baressi has the nerve to show the Great Emancipator getting it on with jubilant black folk-- one of the rare opportunities to be outrageous that Barresi has been known to miss-- but Black Brigade is defiantly and cheerfully non-p.c. It handles race with a mixture of insolence, humor and streetwise intelligence. This handsomely assembled video gives African-American talent like Corey Cox, Bobby Blake, Andre Bolla, and Winston Love a chance to show that they're more than a collection of great bodies-- they're actors who can portray characters, read lines and play non-sexual scenes. In humanizing these first-rate performers, Baressi makes their sexual exploits all the more remarkable.