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Distributor | Released | Length | Vendor ID |
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Hand-in-Hand Films | 1972 | 87 | MX-017 |
Bob Anthony Studio | 1974 | ||
Vydio Phylms | ? |
Description source: Gay Erotic Video Index
This film was the first Hand-in-Hand movie, the first scripted gay porn flic, and the first musically scored gay porn flic. It opened in the same 55th Street Playhouse as Wakefield Poole's Boys in the Sand, just after Boys ended its 26 week run. The original version had a fisting scene that has been removed in more recent versions. Dialog is dubbed. 8 scenes listed here but it was sold in 6 200' reels.
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Market Reports Newsletter:
Setting: New York City and vicinity
Performers: Too many to identify sequentially: the main
characters are hip types, the "supplier" with full black beard, medium length hair, shows a fine body with some chest, leg hair. The "buyer" is a cleaner cut fellow, in his 20's, too, with as good a body. The "dealer' is older and with longer hair, a little scroungy looking. Mainly good looking people, though.
Special category: Scenario revolves loosely around a grass supplier/dealer/buyer relationship Some fetish attire.
Action Sequence: Reel 1 is primarily concerned with the model who is the supplier stopping in a rest room and having sex with a stranger. Reel 2, the buyer gets his grass, goes home and fantasizes sex with the dealer, clever use of b/w and color in the fantasy sequence. Reel 3 gets the supplier and the buyer together by accidental encounter, into the apartment for a smoke and sex, in bed and in the shower. Reel 4 takes them out in the country to the buyer's home, shared with a chick. The supplier follows and the boys go do it in the barn. Reel 5 continues, the chick gone, the boys balling by the fireplace, then in bed. Reel 6 Is an orgy at the apartment of the dealer, the supplier right in the middle of it, and the buyer catching him. Everyone makes it.
Special Collection Notes: feature length, superb photographic technique, plot gets a little sinister, action heavy.
Rating: very well done, particularly for its length. The models may not appeal to everyone, nor will the story line. The action is well delineated among the reels to allow reasonable selection of preferred action. For a long film, probably one of the best available.
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Hand-In-Hand promo:
Manhattan antique-cum-head shop owner Larry (Larry Burns), who is also a pot peddler, phones his supplier, Bob (Robert Rikas), living near Woodstock, to arrange a delivery. Meanwhile, Ray (Ray Frank), who has a somewhat tenuous relationship with an older man, relentlessly cruises the streets and parks as he wends his way through the Village to make a connection at Larry’s shop. Ray and Bob arrive almost simultaneously at Larry’s. Bob makes his delivery and departs – aware of Ray’s appraising glances. Larry insists to his customer that the country courier is strictly off-limits and that he has a girl living with him upstate. Ray makes his buy and returns to his apartment to fantasize a sexual encounter with Larry in the cluttered shop. When Bob makes his next delivery to Larry, Ray contrives to be in the neighborhood. Bob gives Ray a lift to Ray’s apartment and is invited up for a smoke. Successful in their initial seduction of each other, they rendezvous a few days later at Bob’s place in the country. After Ray returns to the city, The Girl – sensing she has been displaced – leaves Bob. But, following another visit to the country, Ray, beginning to weary of the romance, reverts to his restless habits. Puzzled by Ray’s withdrawal, Bob contacts Larry, who has been jealously aware and resentful of their affair. Setting the stage for the story’s denouement, Larry suggests Bob meet him for a talk at an apartment where Larry has already organized an orgy to which the eager Ray has been invited.
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Review by Harold Fairbanks – “Left-Handed is classy, but erotic and trippy” in The Advocate #?
World Premiere June 1, 1972 at 55th Street Playhouse.