As a diehard fan (even in this decadent gonzo era) of storyline porn, I was interested in The Pyramid trilogy from Private, shot on location in Egypt during the frees-spending VHS era of the 1990s. It's okay, but overall underwhelming, despite the idiotic awards and misleading shilling going on (see IMDb-submitted comments and trivia -ugh!).
The story is trivial, and potential adventure, given the millennia-spanning premise and on location photography never materializes. Most successful element is the set of d.p.-laden sex scenes, always ending with that groaner motif popularized by Private's other top director -Antonio Adamo: closeup of actress staring smiling at the camera with spunk dripping from her face.
Part One merely sets the stage: David Perry and his blonde (and flat-chested) wife Angelica Mirai finding a stone treasure map which takes them to the Sakara's ruins near Djeder pyramid, where they open a 4000 year old sarcophagus and free a goddess, played by the spectacular star Tania Russof (a brunette beauty with piercing eyes, suggesting the look of the great Nikita Denise).
Three local cops pursuing the duo get scared off by a snake and then make love to an Arab girl played by Mafalda.
Jolt Walton as a fisherman named Karim gets to have sex with American tourist Kristina and later treats our leading couple Perry and Angelica to a foursome with his wife Sandra Dark. Double penetration for all the ladies, the movie's drawing card.
Perry's pal played by Philippe Dean takes him to a Cairo marketplace to buy a present for his wife, and the sexy saleslady Regina gives them -you guessed it, another d.p.
Setpiece has the goddess who came to Earth to teach people about pleasure in her story's flashback servicing pharoah RIchard Langin in an impressive set that looks like a tiled and modern Turkish Bath. She's his mistress, and the angry wife was responsible for imprisoning her in the sarcophagus (none of this possibly interesting NonSex drama is included).
Eager to preserve for posterity the treasure buried alongside Russof's sarcophagus, Perry & Angelica take a sample (a small golden eagle piece) to the government cultural minister Alain Deloin. Part One video ends with a sexual cliffhanger: Deloin visits the harem of a pasha (played by Pyramid writer-director Pierre Woodman), and selects a half dozen of his vast group of harem girls to service him in Part Two.
Woodman wasted the opportunity for action and drama, giving us little more than sex plus colorful travelogue, hardly costing the million-dollar budget hyped. Russof was a find, but this is far, far from being a great Adult movie.
NOTE: IMDb lists cast members for all 3 parts under Part One, but only through the Harem Girls (who have fleeting cameos as a tease, their roles saved for Part Two) are the correct credits for Private Gold 11 = Part One.
