Cocksucker Blues (1972)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Robert Frank

Genre:

Documentary | Music

Plot:

A film by photographer Robert Frank on the Rolling Stone's 1972 American tour. Not released by the Stones...

Plot Keywords:

Rolling Stones | Underground Film | Profanity In Title | Unreleased Film | Independent Film

Cast

Truman Capote	...	Himself
Dick Cavett	...	Himself
Marshall Chess	...	Himself
Chris Collins	...	Connection
Ahmet Ertegun	...	Himself
Steve Geolke	...	Make-Up Man
Nicky Hopkins	...	Himself
Bianca Jagger	...	Herself
Mick Jagger	...	Himself
Bobby Keyes	...	Himself
Otto Levine	...	Producer
Jim Price	...	Himself
Lee Radziwill	...	Herself (as Princess Radziwill)
Keith Richards	...	Himself
Peter Rudge	...	Commander
Danny Seymour	...	Junky Soundman (as Daniel Ceymore)
Terry Southern	...	Himself
Mick Taylor	...	Himself
Tina Turner	...	Herself
Andy Warhol	...	Himself
Charlie Watts	...	Himself
Stevie Wonder	...	Himself
Bill Wyman	...	Himself

Also Known As:

CS Blues (USA) (bowdlerized title)

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White | Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Trivia:

Although The Rolling Stones have never officially released the film themselves, black and white scenes form the infamous documentary can be seen in their subsequent video/DVD releases. These include: Video Rewind: The Rolling Stones' Great Video Hits (1984) (V) and Rolling Stones: 4 Flicks (2003) (V).

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Hustler White (1996)

Soundtrack:

Love Me Tender

Lost disaster piece

An East Village guitar-store owner sold me a bootleg copy of this legendary Robert Frank documentary, which was suppressed by its subjects, the Rolling Stones. Full of arty effects and stony, fragmentative editing, the movie intermittently fascinates in its depiction of a day in the life of the Stones--a life that alternates between massive, almost unthinkable amounts of ego-gratification, and routine, torpid, everyday boredom. The intent seems to be an anthropological portrait of the habits of visiting alien gods: the Stones are made both otherworldly-regal and incalculably drab. Because of the scenes of groupie-shagging and substance abuse, Frank was forced to credit the Stones as "playing characters" in the end credits (if memory serves, Keith Richards plays "Pizza Delivery Man"), and the picture is available to be screened, by Mick-generated court order, only when Frank is present.