The terrorism business must not only be good, it must be low enough on the federal governments priority list to allow international bad guy Michael Des Barres (who seems to be doing a Frank Gorshin impersonation) enough latitude to limo around town like a Hollywood movie producer.

Des Barres is under surveillance by agents Baker (Marc Singer) and Johnson (Mark Hamill) during the course of which he snuffs federal stoolie India Allen in the bedroom. Or, more accurately, out of the bedroom, because Allen goes flying through a window soon after the opening credits and Deborah Shelton happens by as a convenient witness. (India gets more extended screen life in Pamela Principle 2— see this month's review.)

Shelton, as luck would have it, is high-profile in her own right, being the star of a TV show in which she plays a cop but not reality-based enough to suit her taste for the dramatic. She's at creative odds with her director Gilbert Gottfried whose primary purpose, one can conclude from his relevance to the story, is to offer Gottfriedesque facial tics and acerbic commentary.

Shelton, pursued by Des Barres with the help of more snitches and moles than a Nixon White House staff reunion, is remanded to federal custody. Resultantly, she winds up in a proverbial cabin in the pines with Baker and Johnson who seem to be enjoying more sack action than Masters & Johnson.

As Shelton's designated woodsman, Singer plays his usual loping, Gary Cooper tall-in-the-saddle-type, and it's not long before he and Shelton play "cops and robbers" in the type of love scene that normally signals the machetes in a Friday the 13th movie. Hamill, ever since Star Wars, has been batting zero in the on-screen romance department, and it's no different here. But to elaborate is to reveal too much out of the twist endings' file. Suffice to say Silk Degrees keeps pace with the current rage to wrap up erotic thrillers with thunderous crescendos and logic-defying conclusions.

Singer and Shelton are very popular performers in this genre, and their viable chemistry here suggests a good viewers' recommendation to your customers.