Forbidden Letters
directed by: Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. (1976)
Starring: Richard Locke, Robert Adams, David DelCambio , Douglas Dickinson, Francisco Guevara, Jerry Kuroda
John Gustavson, Ralph Osborne, Thommy Padgett, Willie Bjorn, and Victoria Young
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Again, thank you
no problem – always nice to hear suggestions and get feedback!
R Locke in a jail cell. I thought I had this as a magazine years ago but that was in full color with his butterfly tattoos .
A question for you: the gevi page for Forbidden Letters quotes a blurb written by you (for your Bressan directors page, I believe) in lieu of actual scene descriptions, which I can understand as a breakdown would be difficult for a more art house film such as this. Robert Adams has sex with at least one other guy, the shaggy dude with the camera he smokes a joint with on a hilltop in SF and then accompanies back to his studio, and also imagines himself in the porn scene he goes to watch in the theatre, but as a spectator. Otherwise it’s lots of flashbacks of he and Richard Locke being affectionate and/or having sex in various settings, some of them very brief or repeated. Along with the beautifully imagined jail cell jackoff sequence from the clip you posted here, which would be a fantasy.
Anyway back to the gevi blurb:
https://gayeroticvideoindex.com/video/14269
… to the end of your summary Woody tacked on the following: “The video is 20 minutes shorter than the theatrically released version. The film was a “cause celebre” when confiscated by British customs.” I’m guessing you know that the film was recently remastered and the missing scenes added back in, which looks outstanding (and inspired another review on my part). But I’m wondering about that last bit, the cause celebre involving British customs. Do you know any more about this reference? Like if it was mentioned in a news or magazine article, that sort of thing. I know that British and UK viewers were deprived of a lot of the smut that American and even French audiences got to see until well into the 90s, and that bootleg tapes that made it through were highly sought after. A film like that Gay Men’s Guide To Safer Sex from 92 was far more explicit than almost anything Brits were permitted to see thanks to the censorship laws that were a lot more strict, pre-internet especially. Anyway just wondered what you knew about this, maybe Woody got that from the Stallion or Manshots articles he cites at the bottom as references. Thanks.
great question – and I may have the re-issue, but have yet to view – on my list of “off season” things to do – and may well need to compare my VHS to see if I have an eidted version or the full version – what the heck would’ve been cut…?
One of the sources for info that I found about that movie said that almost everything with the woman wound up cut, so likely the whole flashback scene where the three of them went to the amusement park, read the tarot deck and rode the merry-go-round. And her calling Robert and telling him not to mope, go out and get laid, smoke some grass and then meet her for dinner that night, etc. I had a copy I saved of the shorter version but kept putting off watching it, so finding the full length version was great as I felt like I saw it the way it was intended to be seen. I found one of the issues of Stallion that’s listed at the bottom of the gevi page and it did mention the film, but nothing about British customs. If you ever find out and would let me know, I’d appreciate it.
well, this is fascinating, and making me think perhaps this is a classic porno hatchet job, where it isn’t objectionable material, but perhaps someone lost a reel, or otherwise wanted to shorten for no other reason as to have it shorter!