Author: docsleaze

Using the framework of the traditional private eye thriller, director Eric Cocker fashions a startling tale of suppressed desires and unspoken lusts erupting into a mundane everyday world. As his hard-boiled hero Tom Mulligan (played by beefcake pin-up and reputed part-time rent-boy Biff Gloy), stalks the damp and grey South London badlands in search of an old friend’s missing daughter, he finds himself disturbed by his growing fascination with sado-masochism and his hitherto hidden desire to be dominated by tough women…

One of the unlikeliest of porn stars, Percy Peaslin traded on his remarkable resemblance to the late British comedian Tony Hancock to make a series of short films under the name Tony Handjob, which were basically porn versions of the popular 1960s TV series Hancock’s Half Hour. Usually dressed in a homburg and raincoat, Handjob was basically a frustrated working class-type with aspirations to culture and grandeur. Forever thwarted in his attempts to bed various glamourous women, Handjob would frequently take refuge in elaborate masturbatory fantasies. Often a film would climax with him being rudely interrupted just as he was about to shoot his load…