Cast List

Michael Cade, Coke Hennessy, Jamal Jones, Nick Kastroff, Alexis Knight, Bob Plumber, Bill Yort, Tim Clark, Jeffrey Etting 

Featuring Tim Clark and Jeffrey Etting as the dancers. 

Review

This surreal Hand-in-Hand film offers a funny, touching and realistic look at lovers and their emotional responses to both jealousy and carnal lust.

Casting a group of nine men of varied types and cock sizes, the action is pre-AIDS oriented and includes a lot of passion. The film begins with two average men, Hank (Coke Hennessy) and Paul (Michael Cade), who meet and fall in love in New York City when Hank helps photographer Paul with a shoot in the park.

At Paul's place, they check out photos that he's taken, including one of Paul with another man, both naked. Their ensuing relationship and lust develops through dinners, visiting an art gallery, picking out a kitten, and making out in the dark room. They have their first touching and intimate sexual encounter after this (with no live sound but good string piano music; a good score by David Earnest): Paul passionately eats out Hank's asshole and rolls around the bed with him to fall into a 69 session.

Paul later stands and humps Hank's throat before filling his butt with cock; they go to sleep after sex. Sounds simple enough, but at this point director Arch Brown takes us into the surreal world of Hank's dreams. In his dreams, Hank watches Paul hungrily sucking one man's thick prick after seducing him (when his cock and balls appear through curtains) and fucking another man's tight asshole while Hank himself sucks the cock of a black man in the basement of a building.

Also occurring in this sexual montage dream are: Paul fucking the hairy ass of the kitten seller on a roof, Paul and Hank painting each other's body and kissing in a water tower, two professional dancers in a poster coming to life and dancing naked against a black background by a ladder, and Hank participating in an orgy where he is fucked by a huge black double-headed dildo.

The dream depicts what Brown terms "lover's paranoia", the kind of insecurity one feels when one falls too hard for someone too fast.

The film may be too "arty" for some porn lovers, but for others it will offer a welcome change of pace from today's often mindless all-male features.

" .. proves that a little Cocteau, a dash of Fellini, and sex do mix well." -- The Advocate

"It charges out like THUNDER. -- Gay Scene

" ... one of the best gay films ever made .. with plenty of hard-core sex and attractive men." -- Screw Magazine

"But it is Brown's imagination -- the surrealism mixed with the concreteness of experience that makes the film really work.  There is also a great evocative score by David Ernest and Robert Alvarez's editing is a marvel. It is nice to see a porno film tha tlooks as those it has been made by someone who cares deeply about what he is doing ... " -- The Guide 

Directed and photographed by Arch Brown.

Produced by Jack Deveau and edited by Robert Alvarez.

Originally shot-on-film; filmed with StudioSound, a magnetic transfer of the original magnetic studio sound tracks for the feature.

In 1974, according to Variety, one of the 50 top-grossing films at the 55th Street Playhouse in New York City.

A BIJOU VIDEO exclusive from Hand-in-Hand Films. 

1973; 72 min.

Key Words

Anal Fucking | Black | Classic Pre-Condom | Dildo | Gangbang Orgy | Masturbation/JO | Oral Cock Sucking | Outdoors | Rimming | Threeway