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Audiences rate it 15 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes57%
Metacritic52/100
Audiences rate it 15 points higher than critics do.
27 audience votes
Key crew
- Thom FitzgeraldDirector
- Thom FitzgeraldWriter
- John RobyOriginal Music Composer
- Michael DiaboOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Daniel MacIvorBob Mizer
- Joshua PeaceNeil E. O'Hara
- Jack Griffin MazeikaRed
- Carroll GodsmanDelia Mizer
- Jonathan TorrensDavid
- Thomas Wayne HarrisMizer's Attorney
- Jaime RobertsonProsecuting Attorney
- Dick SircomJudge
- Thom FitzgeraldLaFleur's Attorney
- Orest UlanDefence
- Glen DeveauSoldier Just Off the Bus
- Andrew MillerTiny
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Themes
interviewbeefcakehomoeroticismlgbtmusclemen1950sgay magazine