The Leather Boys (DVD) 1963
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DVD: Region Code 1Audio: English (Original Language), Unknown
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
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DVD Review: A Different Look At The Lonely
Summary: 4 Stars
This film is a really wonderful example of the fact that anyone can feel polarized, alone, and alienated. Reg is a young straight biker mechanic who gets married to a harpy of a woman who is just awful to him. Rita Tushingham plays his young wife as a woman with seemingly no love just a desire to complain and be absolutely nasty to Reg. So along comes Pete, a homosexual motorcylist who befriends Reg. Reg does not realize Pete is a homosexual, and can't quite figure out Pete's motivations some times, but he really likes Pete and consider's Pete his best friend. As the relationship between Reg and his terribly cruel wife (who obviously has no soul) deteriorates he spends more and time with Pete. Pete believes that they should go off to America together (he and Reg) as Reg has no intention of staying with the gorgon back at home. Reg finally realizes Pete likes him and doesn't quite no how to take it but since Pete is the best friend he ever had he does not want to lose him. Reg and the medusa try once more to get back together but as usual she shows her true colors. Really, her character is the most unsympatheticly written person ever in a movie...you can't help but hate this woman because she is just awful and not satisfied with anything. So Reg tells Pete that the trip to America is on. But on the way to the boat Pete leaves Reg in a gay bar where several very aggressive men hit on him. Reg is sort of taken aback and realizes that maybe he does not belong with Pete in his world either. The film ends with Reg leaving Pete standing in front of the gay bar and Reg walking away absolutely alone. This film dispels the myth that gay men are the only ones with identity problems. At the end, Pete still has his idendity, the horrible wife does. But the straight guy is left with nothing. He is alone, and fits in nowhere. He does not belong in the straight or gay world. He is a misfit. Doomed to walk off alone onto the highway. He doesn't know where he's going and who know's where he'll ever end up.
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Though Sidney J. Furie's Leather Boys was controversial in its day, its boldness has dissipated with time. Set in the world of the leather-jacket-clad motorcycle clubs of British youth, this product of the British social-realist "kitchen sink" movement is at its best capturing the details of working-class life: the holiday camps, the claustrophobic studio homes, the pubs and cafés that dot neighborhood streets. Schoolgirl Dot (the engaging Rita Tushingham) and mechanic Reg (Colin Campbell) marry too early and quickly discover adulthood is not nearly as much fun as they expected. She's a social gadfly and he's a stick-in-the-mud homebody and they bring out the worst in each other. Mere months after exchanging vows he moves out to care for his widowed grandma, inviting his new mate Pete (Dudley Sutton) to bunk with him, but Pete's interest in Reg, as we learn, is more than just friendly. Tushingham is marvelous as Dot, an immature young woman alternately selfish, sincere, and desperate, and Campbell makes the soft-spoken Reg as blind to her needs as she is to his, but Furie barely hints at what brings them together in the first place--the moment the vows are spoken they seem to be at loggerheads, disagreements turning to vicious bickering. The film's reputation largely rests on its oblique exploration of the gay underground, provocative in its time, but today it's a lesser companion to such classics as The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and This Sporting Life. --Sean AxmakerBestsellers in DVD
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