[5] While working as an editor on PBS documentary "An American Family" (1973) he observed the success of "Boys in the Sand," which led him to encourage his partner Deveau to found a porn business.
Deveau financed the first of his company's productions, "Left-Handed," a surreal porn film about a hustler who seduces a straight man before he dumps him.
"Good Hot Stuff" (1975) is regarded by some critics as the studio's most significant title because it includes the only footage of a "lost film" called "Beyond These Doors," which was supposed to be James Bidgood's follow-up to "Pink Narcissus.
[13] The format of "Good Hot Stuff" presents the footage as an upcoming movie that's in production, while the rest of the film offers sex scenes, bloopers and commentary by porn actor (and behind the scenes employee of Hand in Hand[14]) Sydney Soons, known by the stage name Mark Woodward, who acts as host in explaining how porn films are made.
[15][16] When "Good Hot Stuff" opened in Paris, under the title "Histoires d'Hommes," it became the first gay adult film to play the country after censorship laws were loosened that year.
[4] The cinematographer for "Strictly Forbidden" was Francois About, who went on to shoot many of the most well-known French gay adult films of the late '70s/early '80s, including Scandelari's "New York City Inferno" (1978), Wallace Potts' "Le Beau Mec" (1979), and Dietrich de Velsa's "Equation to an Unknown"[17] (1980) and direct his own gay adult films in both France and New York City.
De Rome's first feature, the film includes a scene set to the recitation of the erotic poem "The Platonic Blow" (or "A Day for a Lay")[18] by W.H.
[20] The film had a large premiere with an audience including John Waters star Divine, Tennessee Williams, and Jamie Gillis.
[1] "The Destroying Angel" (1976), Peter De Rome's second and final feature, was a Catholicism-infused blend of horror and adult film based loosely on Edgar Allan Poe's "William Wilson.
"[21] It features frenetic editing by Alvarez, expressive photography by Deveau, and a committed performance by lead Tim Kent as Caswell Campbell, a seminarian on sabbatical who embarks upon a frightening psychedelic and erotic journey.
[23][22][24] Its cast included popular adult star Jack Wrangler and Malo, or Arnaldo Santana, also a mainstream actor known for his roles in the Al Pacino movies "Cruising" and "Scarface" and a recurring part in the Paul Rodriguez sitcom "a.k.a.
[29] "Times Square Strip" (1982) was Deveau's final film, a light-hearted comedic narrative shot at and depicting the dancers at NYC's Gaiety Theatre (also with a cameo by Sardi).
"[1] Alvarez elaborated upon Deveau's vision in a 2019 interview with Bijou: "[Jack] said that these films were like literature and that if we kept them - you know, rather than sell them - we would end up eventually having them seen over and over and over again and be a representation of what it was like in the days that we shot them... Because most of them were contemporary stories of people at that time.