On Your Knees Sailor

The Brig is one of a relative few porn films in my physical copy collection where I have the actual videotape that was sold at the porn store, as opposed to the bunches of films I recorded onto blank videotapes, sometimes two, three or more onto one tape by adjusting the tape speed. That’s part of why I never taught myself how to transfer video to digital file, I’m afraid that my decision to emphasize quantity of films over the quality of the tape would be apparent on anything other than my VCR. I think The Brig was on sale and that was why I bought it, maybe 19.99 as opposed to the 50, 60 or 80 bucks that high end videotapes were selling for back in the late 70s and throughout the 80s too. Now everybody expects everything for free lol, but some people actually did shell out that much money for first run videos once upon a time, not to mention the magazines.

Gevi credits someone named Enzley Cohen for the music but it seems almost certain that all ol’ Enz did was select which existing music to steal, and make sure as much of it was instrumental so as not to draw too much attention from the labels during these last few years of porn films using whatever they wanted. It’s a hodgepodge of songs, I didn’t recognize any of them from this scene but at least one sounded like Herb Alpert or maybe Chuck Mangione (the one obsessed referred to as ‘salsa-tinged dance music’ around the boot-licking part of this clip). All randomly placed here and there without much continuity to it, similar to some of the early Falcon videopacs and just fade one song out and the next one in. Could even be some fusion like one of the Jeans later (Jarre or Ponty) but alas I’ve never used shazam so unless something jumps out at me (or I recognize song lyrics) it’s just another in an endless stream of question marks for me.

I’d agree with much of obsessed’s review above, the whole film is a bit of a disappointment (maybe that was why the tape was on sale?) but it’s not completely lacking. Some of the guys and set-ups are pretty hot but the lighting IS all off, the shadows are a big distraction in this scene. Mechanical, going through the motions, not much heat or connection between the participants, all that could be forgiven if the dicks were hard enough and highlighted by the camera angles, but that didn’t seem like a priority for the director or cameramen in any of the scenes as I recall them (will have to rewatch the rest at some point).

I’m reminded of one of those Men On Film sketches on In Living Color, where they are reviewing Die Hard and one of them says that it just left him kind of limp? That could describe both the physical appendages in The Brig and my overall takeaway from the film I think. Pre-viagra that was to be expected in a lot of the porn from this era as we all know, with some notable exceptions – I don’t remember ever seeing David Ashfield’s dick at anything but 80-100% hard, and what a beauty he had. Derrick Stanton as well, who swung by the section of reddit where I’ve been reviewing vintage films now that I’m a moderator, and typing up big long walls of text (imagine that lol). Or at least someone saying he’s Derrick but I kinda believe him. In addition to his fucking Casey Donovan while Casey is handcuffed to the tree in L.A. Tool & Die, he also told me that he has quite possibly the most memorable cumshot in the entire film … at the very beginning, when Richard Locke comes into the shack and finds Michael Kearns blowing a dick-without-a-face, says the line about ‘he’s just about ready to pop” and then strokes the dick off until it spurts all over the place, that was apparently Derrick as well. And Joe Gage, for whatever reason, didn’t credit Derrick in the film at all, relegating him to being one of “the Gage men” apparently. Those reviews (and the comments from Derrick) are on the subreddit ‘vintage gay vids’ which I’m reluctant to add any more links here to what I’ve been doing elsewhere, since I dropped so many youtube links last year on poor BJ’s blog to my now deceased yt channel, which are now just litter.