The Escort 3 (3½ Stars)

In 1997 a low budget erotic thriller called "The Escort" was made, directed by Gary Graver and starring Shauna O'Brien and Landon Hall. The following year Gary Graver made a sequel with the same actresses called "The Escort 2". In 1999 Jim Wynorski made a film called "The Escort 3" that has nothing at all to do with the other films. It's actually the third film in Ross Hagen's Crank Trilogy. The first film was "Virtual Desire" (1995) and the second was "Night Shade" (1996). It seems like someone somewhere got confused when it came to naming this film.

Ross Hagen stars as the supercool Detective Crank Gabovsky. He is investigating the murder of a secretary who worked in an architect's bureau. He finds out that until four months previously she worked for an escort agency. His initial investigations lead him to suspect clients of the escort agency, but as one suspect after another is shot dead it becomes apparent that it isn't such a simple case.

Ross was a fantastic actor. He was perfect as the big city homicide detective who liked to drink on the job. He could have starred in his own TV series. "Crank". He would have become a household name. Unfortunately not even Ross's acting talent can save this weak film. The first half is unbearably slow, padded out with sex scenes irrelevant to the story to hide the lack of a plot. It isn't until the final half hour that it becomes thrilling.

Ross Hagen
May 21, 1938 – May 7, 2011

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Addendum on 28th May 2023

Today I received a strange message from Google's Blogger Team, probably an automated message. It claims that this post contains illegal content and has been deleted. I was advised to read the Google policy guidelines, which I have done, and I don't see any way in which it contains illegal content. I also received messages about other posts which were borderline cases and have been put behind a warning screen. Based on suspicious activity on my blog over the last two hours, it seems like my blog is being targeted by a malicious person who's reporting random posts in order to disrupt my blogging. Maybe the attack isn't completely random. He's targeting primarily posts about films directed by Fred Olen Ray.

I have already appealed against the flagging of another post, "Bikini Carwash Company", reposting it without changes, and it has been re-instated. Thank you, Google. I have made minor changes to this post before resubmitting it. Is someone possibly objecting to the use of the word "escort"? I don't describe or elaborate on the word's meaning in my post.

I have two wishes to Google:

1. Please re-instate my post as quickly as possible.

2. Please contact me from an email that I can reply to, so that we can avoid things like this happening again in future.