Boys from Riverside Drive

Release Year: 1977
Genres: bareback, porn, vintage
Video language: English

This early offering from master director Jack Deveau is decidedly tamer than most of his later work, and at just over an hour it's also a shorter than his epics from the later part of the decade. There is an anonymous flavor to some of the sex, and a little kinky bondage enters the picture courtesy of some very loose rope midway through, but this is mostly a straightforward, romance-inflected film.

Porn legends Jack Wrangler and Malo start things off in a dreamy sequence worthy of Antonioni, but the real spice here may just be the intro. Deveau introduces the picture as an "anthropological" study of early '70s New York City, replete with diagrams of Central Park's cruisy hotspots and ruminations on primal instinct. The conceit is soon lost among the sexploits, but it still adds a classic, campy flavor to the feature, which is outstanding example of early queer porn.

Things get off to an atmospheric start with a classic red-lit scene between legendary superstars Jack Wrangler and Malo as "the ideal couple." The men strut their considerable stuff on a blacked out stage bathed in a rosy glow, with big hard-ons and lots of kissing and cock sucking. The titles don't roll, in fact, until these guys suck and slurp on each other for a full twelve minutes. When the movie does settle down to reality, however, there's a shift from the surreal to the mundane replete with Knows Best type music introducing us to a young fellow who arrives at his apartment building with flowers to celebrate his first anniversary with boyfriend Buddy Preston.

Format: mp4
Duration: 1:06:13
Video: 720x540, AVC (H.264), 1953kbps
Audio: 124kbps






File size: 1.0 GB


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