Long a fan of Frank Thring, the super director for Private (Virgin Treasures. Cannes Fantasies, La Dolce Vita Hotel, Samba, Chateau de Passion, Sex for Free are my favorites) I was anxious to see what he looked like in front of the camera. Well, as he shows in the new “Mr. Beaver” series from Hustler, he’s as skilled a performer as he is a director. (Of course, he directs this too.) The character he’s created is Dick Beaver, a sly, witty, commercial traveler (salesman) whose territory is the world. While other men would be broken down, he is still with it.
Although every misadventure happens to him – some of the sequences are straight out of Laurel & Hardy—he does finally travail through the muck and find fine pussy. Billed as the “world’s dirtiest traveling salesman,” Thring (Scion of a noted British acting family known for its dry wit and intelligence—his father once was quoted as responding to the epic production Ben Hur as “loved him, hated Hur” introduces each segment wit...
