Erotikus: A History of the Gay Movie (1973)

5.0/10 90 min Documentary

Overview

The film, narrated by "LA Plays Itself" director Fred Halstead, begins by looking at the muscle magazines and films of the late 1940s-early 1960s, then at the softcore films of the late 60s and the boundary-pushing and legal-testing which allowed these to evolve into hardcore loops and then features.

Cast

Fred Halsted

Narrator

Ed Fury

(archive footage)

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