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Sailor Paul Morgan and Naval officer Chase Allen approach each other on the street. Morgan is carrying a rose. It's for the late Admiral Peter James Miles, who, as Allen notes, "had a reputation for truly loving his men." Morgan is deeply grateful for all the knowledge the admiral imparted to him, especially "the way he taught me to ride the big, giant swells." When Morgan and Allen go to the cemetery and leave the rose on a grave, you may notice that the name on the stone isn't Miles, but presumably their attention has wandered elsewhere. Soon they're in a white room with a tweedy off-white couch and an Ansel Adams poster, riding the swells on land.

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A companion piece to Barresi's Marine Fever, the meaninglessly titled Men Under Siege is a bit more successful as military fetishism and as all-purpose porn. The only authentic military setting is the cemetery in the opening sequence-- what we are told is the "brig" has blue Levolor blinds. But most cast members at least look like sailors, and the sex, inter-cutting between a group in the brig and a group in a neighboring room, gets fairly hot, with standout performances by Morgan and Sweet William. ("God, I love the Navy!" William exclaims between gulps of cock.) Men Under Siege is full of Barresi's trademark arty touches, with muted color fading to black and white now and then just for the heck of it, but some of the technique pays off. The wall-to-wall sex is punctuated by facial close-ups that establish the performers as turned-on human beings. Deliberate stares into the camera seem to invite the viewer into the action. Hardly anyone would decline the invitation.