Beefcake (1998)

5.4/10 • 91 min • Drama History Documentary

Overview

A look at the 1950s muscle men's magazines and the representative industry which were popular supposedly as health and fitness magazines, but were in reality primarily being purchased by the still-underground homosexual community. Chief among the purveyors of this literature was Bob Mizer, who maintained a magazine and developed sexually inexplicit men's films for over 40 years. Aided by his mother, the two maintained a stable of not so innocent studs.

Cast

Daniel MacIvor

Joshua Peace

Jonathan Torrens

David

Thom Fitzgerald

LaFleur's Attorney

Marla McLean

Bernard Robichaud

Jukie

Andy Smith

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