For most of the year, I successfully managed to forget to review this compilation tape from Chip Daniels and Centaur Films. That's a shame, because it's a terrific, star-studded highlight reel of the best of Centaur Films' five year history. Daniels reedited the 11 featured scenes for this tape, and as most of the featured models are no longer working, this is your only chance to catch in the same film such exalted studs as Bo Summers, Johnny Hansen, Chad Knight, Kyle McKenna, Joe Romero and Kevin Kramer.
The excerpted films are Hot Cops 1, 2 and 3, Hot Firemen, Hotter Than Hell, Marine Crucible, Gamemaster and Time Cops . With 22 models and 11 scenes, everyone's bound to have a favorite. My picks? Buffed, studly Joe Romero dripping with testosterone as he roughly fucks the skinny blond Jeff Jagger in the first scene, from Hot Cops 1. Romero, from a standing position, grips the much-smaller Jagger in his arms as Jagger hungrily bounces on Romero's poker-stiff cock. Great stuff. I also enjoyed (again) Italian Stallion Johnny Hansen energetically humping J.T. Sloan in a scene from Hot Firemen. There are also several terrific erotic minutes of Sloan maintaining direct eye contact with Hansen as his mouth is stuffed with Hansen's delectably fat cock.
On the downside, several of the scenes retain their terrible dubbing, particularly the Donovan/Hart scene from Hot Cops 3 . However, Sam Crockett puts in a welcome reappearance in a scene from Hot Firemen as he fucks the taut, tanned jockstrap-clad Alex Kincaid, and Chad Knight fans will be thrilled at the reappearance of footage from Marine Crucibl e. He moans, groans and wriggles as he's thumped by that hunky slab of muscled blond beef, Bo Summers. When Chip Daniels was good, he was very good, and Studbook is an excellent primer on his better films. All of them are worth looking up in the video store.
- J.C. Adams