Leather Boys Sidney J. Furie Digital Life VHS

Leather Boys
starring: Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell, Dudley Sutton, Gladys Henson, Avice Landone
directed by: Sidney J. Furie

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Collectible Price: $34.88
Third Party New Price: $149.99

Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786305381198
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6305381194
Label: Kino Video
Manufacturer: Kino Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Kino Video
Release Date: June 27, 2000
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 30076
Studio: Kino Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1963

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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 Axmaker

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- Definitely NOT homosexual
This British New Wave film is in the social comment style of A Taste of Honey and A Kind of Loving and it is one of the best of these films. The relationship between the two mates in the story has been misunderstood since gay liberation and so therefore has the film. The film is about the disillusionment of youth in the modern world. The story has two young mates enjoying the freedom of the roads on their motorbikes while facing having to grow up in the modern adult world. One of them gets married and finds himself entangled in the responsibilities of marriage, while the other (Dudley Sutton's character) is determined to avoid this fate and keep his motorbike and the freedom of the roads, so he has nothing to do with girls. However at the end of the film, when the two mates finally part to go their separate ways, Dudley Sutton's young man is left facing a future of rootless drifting with the spectre of homosexuality ... Read More

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- Good drama, not really dated
If you've read other reviews you know about the plot. I think the movie is quite good.
Some people call the movie dated, but I think it's a consequence of its time-capsuling quality. I mean, the movie looks and sounds so real, it's true that this characters wouldn't exist today, but it's also so human, we can still relate to them, and at the same time we get the feeling of life in another era.
The acting is excellent, uncompromised. I hear the leading lady was an iconic pop idol. Well, hers is a really unflattering character and she doesn't try any trick to make her more sympathetic. But we still care for her, or at least understand her behaviour, becouse the script is so true and balanced, I'd say it's a fair script to every character.
I think the most troublesome character from today's audience's point of view, is the young husband played by Colin Campbell. I guess becouse it takes him a really loooong ... Read More

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- A Different Look At The Lonely
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 ... Read More

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- A Different Look At The Lonely
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 ... Read More

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