William Higgins' "Rear Deliveries" hails from a period when audiences existed for "gay hardcore" films shown in movie theaters catering to a special clientèle. (Those who've seen Doug Richards (Jerry Douglas') "The Back Row" will know what I mean.)
"Rear Deliveries" film follows in time Higgins' "The Boys of Venice" and stars two of "Venice's" actors – Derrick Stanton, cast here as a photographer who takes a sexual interest in his photographer's apprentice, Shawn Victors and Guy de Silva, who in "Venice's" final scene, as the husband of a carousel owner, snuggled with Kip Noll, but in "Deliveries" Da Silva is a taxi driver who seeks (and receives) relief in a local men's room from Victors and Stanton.
Stanton in a Higgins' film always is a formidable presence, but the star of "Deliveries" is Lee Marlin (note the fishy word-play on a lead Hollywood actor of the time).
Marlin starred with Kip Noll in Mark Aaron's "Grease Monkeys". If "Venice" glorified the Los Angeles County beach culture of the late 1970s, "Monkeys" was a celebration of gay blue-collar workers. In fact, "Deliveries" is Higgins' own exploration of the gay blue-collar world.
Obviously, all of Marlin's conquests – be it a hitchhiker (Rod Canyon) that he picked up on the Malibu coast highway, or a print shop employer-employee tryst (Greg Dale and Rick Lindley) that he walks in upon and enthusiastically joins when he delivers a package – are Higgins' fictitious inventions.
Marlin's character clearly loves all kinds of gay sex and is a magnet to everyone of that inclination around him. Higgins' fictional character was surely based on men whose real-life experiences were not much different than those was being portrayed in this film.
There is one other major character, who has chosen the name of Benjamin Barker (or sometimes Ben Barker) as his stage name. I'm confident that this stage name has its own significance, because during the late 1970s, a Broadway musical was a runaway hit – Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street". For those who know the musical's plot well will recognize that Sweeney Todd's real name is . . . Benjamin Barker!!
Barker, in "Deliveries", faces the wrath of his delivery service boss Rob Stephens, and Barker has his clothes torn off of him. This leads to a four-way sexual encounter between Stephens, Barker, Marlin and Victors.
(Barker reconnects with Stephens – as pool cleaner and insurance salesman - in one of the next films in the series "Kip Noll and the Westside Boys".)
There is a discrepancy between IMDb's date for this film (1982) and that of the Gay Erotic Video Index (1980). My personal opinion is that 1980 is the better date.
This is great period piece, with sex taking place surrounded by boxes of Fuji VHS tapes. Even at its most outrageous (i.e., when Marlin is on screen), it gives a more realistic view of gay sex in L. A. at the end of the 1970s than a lot of mainstream media trying to recreate the period's "straight scene".
"Rear Deliveries" film follows in time Higgins' "The Boys of Venice" and stars two of "Venice's" actors – Derrick Stanton, cast here as a photographer who takes a sexual interest in his photographer's apprentice, Shawn Victors and Guy de Silva, who in "Venice's" final scene, as the husband of a carousel owner, snuggled with Kip Noll, but in "Deliveries" Da Silva is a taxi driver who seeks (and receives) relief in a local men's room from Victors and Stanton.
Stanton in a Higgins' film always is a formidable presence, but the star of "Deliveries" is Lee Marlin (note the fishy word-play on a lead Hollywood actor of the time).
Marlin starred with Kip Noll in Mark Aaron's "Grease Monkeys". If "Venice" glorified the Los Angeles County beach culture of the late 1970s, "Monkeys" was a celebration of gay blue-collar workers. In fact, "Deliveries" is Higgins' own exploration of the gay blue-collar world.
Obviously, all of Marlin's conquests – be it a hitchhiker (Rod Canyon) that he picked up on the Malibu coast highway, or a print shop employer-employee tryst (Greg Dale and Rick Lindley) that he walks in upon and enthusiastically joins when he delivers a package – are Higgins' fictitious inventions.
Marlin's character clearly loves all kinds of gay sex and is a magnet to everyone of that inclination around him. Higgins' fictional character was surely based on men whose real-life experiences were not much different than those was being portrayed in this film.
There is one other major character, who has chosen the name of Benjamin Barker (or sometimes Ben Barker) as his stage name. I'm confident that this stage name has its own significance, because during the late 1970s, a Broadway musical was a runaway hit – Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street". For those who know the musical's plot well will recognize that Sweeney Todd's real name is . . . Benjamin Barker!!
Barker, in "Deliveries", faces the wrath of his delivery service boss Rob Stephens, and Barker has his clothes torn off of him. This leads to a four-way sexual encounter between Stephens, Barker, Marlin and Victors.
(Barker reconnects with Stephens – as pool cleaner and insurance salesman - in one of the next films in the series "Kip Noll and the Westside Boys".)
There is a discrepancy between IMDb's date for this film (1982) and that of the Gay Erotic Video Index (1980). My personal opinion is that 1980 is the better date.
This is great period piece, with sex taking place surrounded by boxes of Fuji VHS tapes. Even at its most outrageous (i.e., when Marlin is on screen), it gives a more realistic view of gay sex in L. A. at the end of the 1970s than a lot of mainstream media trying to recreate the period's "straight scene".