CHICAGO - When J Brian began his career in the 1960s, gay erotica was limited to "physique" photo magazines. A few pictures and films were offered in classified ads in obscure magazines. Within this milieu, Brian became a renowned photographer of the male form. He ventured into film in the 1970s, first creating "loops" for home projectors and then branching out to full-length features for early gay movie houses.
Bijou Video has restored and re-mastered three of his early works and released them on DVD.
Released on videocassette in 1982, J Brian's Golden Boys is a collection of film loops Brian directed in the 1970s. The short films included are Golden Boys, Hideaway Bed, Five In Hand, Book Review, and Tall John and Little John. Golden Boys ushered in a new era for gay porn with the first-ever hardcore gay orgy scene committed to film.
When it was released in 1971, Seven In a Barn was the first full-length gay movie with in-sync sound. The film stars Dean Chasson, who later performed in several titles for Falcon. He and six of his buddies form a sex club. The guys play strip poker in an old barn to decide who will make who cum, and how. Seven In a Barn was based on a popular 1960s jack-off photo magazine with the same name. A full-color reproduction of the magazine also is available from Bijou Video.
Male Stampede (1982) is a film in the tradition of classic Hollywood westerns - except the cowboys use a different kind of "gun." Clean-cut blond Brien Neves and swarthy, bearded Tony D'Angelo star as two cowpokes who meet in a bar and swap stories about life on the range, where men take pleasure in one another in the great outdoors. The sound track is composed of bluegrass music.
Bijou also has available the J Brian collection of more than 4,000 photographs. Fans can select and order reproductions of any photo.
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