Narrated and hosted like a game show, members of the audience are chosen to get sucked, get fucked or play top to Al’s bottom.

Clad in construction gear, Al appears before a nerdish and shy prep Andrew Pierce. Pierce opens Al’s jeans and sucks on his big, uncut cock while he stands on a ladder. A third man (mustached and bearded) joins the man pounds the hell out of Al’s asshole after getting his meat chewed.

Another contestant, in biker’s clothing, performs an excellent and wet blowjob on Al. He licks the other’s muscled ass whiles getting sucked from below before both men jack off and shoot big loads.

Josef Log plugs another contestant on the bed(Gene LaMar) and Al later joins them, filling Gene’s mouth with his big cock. As these two “magically” disappear, Al is shown sucking ass with yet another man. Faces get straddled and balls are chomped.

Al ends the video with a segment in which he is dressed in leather. Al humps the man’s hole (while wearing his belt) and long-dicks him silly. Superior photography captures the genie riding him hard, plopping out on occasion to reveal a wet, stretched asshole on the bottom dude.

Special effects, humor, a dirty-talking audience and incredible close-ups of rimming, sucking and fucking are highlights. The lighting is good, the sound is excellent and the photography is crisp. The story lacks some of Black Forest’s usual political and social commentary and ends up being a bit of one long joke throughout the flick, but is entertaining none the less.

Stars: Gene Lamar, Brent Stevens, Andrew Pierce, Al Delphis, Rico Jones, Joseph Log

Hand and Hand Films producer Jack Deveau saw the films and convinced De Rome to collect several the shorts, blow them up to 16mm, and release them commercially as The Erotic Films Of Peter De Rome.

De Rome shot most of the films over a period of five years, in France, Spain, England, and the US. The edgy subway-sex study Underground was shot especially for the collection.

“Ranks high on the list of all-time (gay pornographic) classics and boasts an artistic achievement that puts most mainstream productions to shame. They just don’t make ‘em like this any more.” – Adult Video News

A brief description of each segment follows.

Double Exposure (1969, Fire Island, New York) A man spies a naked figure standing in a window. He enters the home, and from the top of a staircase he watches as the naked man writhes in pleasure on a sofa below. When he descends the staircase, the man has vanished.

Hot Pants (1971, New York) A naked black man dances and gyrates to a jazz soundtrack, then masturbates to climax. Long, extreme close-ups of the man’s bouncing genitals cause the viewer to see them in abstract rather than as part of the whole man, an effect that is both humorous and hypnotic.

The Second Coming (1970, London, Paris, Malaga, and Marbella) A naked man bound Christ-like on a cross is presented in various states of arousal. His hands are restrained and he cannot touch his penis, which constitutes a “punishment” for his desire.

Daydreams from a Crosstown Bus (1972, New York) A handsome, mustached man riding a city bus catches a momentary glimpse of a young man on the sidewalk, and his imagination spins out a rich romantic relationship between them.

Prometheus (1972, New York) A melding of Greek myth and ruddy, naked manhood.

Underground (1972, New York) Two men have sex on an actual moving subway train. One of De Rome’s most audacious projects, this short was a collaboration with Jack Deveau designed to push the envelope of acceptability and ratchet up the edginess of the collection as a whole.

Mumbo Jumbo (1972, London and New York) A sardonic little piece, and the most stylistic of the shorts in the collection. De Rome uses crass advertising techniques and jargon to objectify the naked male body.

Green Thoughts (1970-71, Kew Gardens, London) A celebration of lust in a wondrous garden setting.

These short films are by turns quirky, intense, wistful, and zany. The sexual action ranges from the mere suggestion of intimacy to hardcore fucking, but without exception the sex serves the greater themes. Technically, some of the shorts have aged better than others, but Bijou’s restoration of the film for DVD release has significantly improved the overall picture quality.

The Erotic Films Of Peter De Rome is experiencing a renaissance in recent years. The collection has been screened at gay and lesbian film festivals in the US, Canada, Australia, Germany, and Italy.