The Leather Boys is a 1964 British drama film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell, and Dudley Sutton.

The story is set in the very early 60s Ton-Up boys' era, just before the rocker subculture in London and features a gay motorcyclist.

When Reggie's grandfather dies, Dot merely complains that his support for his bereaved grandmother has stopped them visiting the cinema.

The bikers organise a race from London to Edinburgh and back in which Reggie, Pete and Brian all take part.

Rita Tushingham said[citation needed] much of the dialogue was improvised after the actors complained that the script "was nothing like how the youth living in London spoke at the time".

The 27th February 1964 edition of UK magazine, Motor Cycle reported that Triumph Engineering refused to supply motorcycles for the film in view of the subject matter.

[11] In Film Quarterly John Seelye said: "The attempt to use the cycles symbolically, and to jazz up the visuals in the race to Edinburgh, comes off lamely; it is only in the interiors, where he can play the characters against the seedy homeyness of working-class England, that Furie comes near a style".

[12] Variety reviewed the film as: "Salty mean-street melodrama, delivered with vigor that helps to disguise a flabby story-line.

"[13] Peter Harcourt wrote in Sight and Sound: "By the end of the film we are left with the sense of having taken part in most personal experience.

"[14] Leslie Halliwell opined: "Sharply-observed slice of low life which now seems quite dated, the central figures no longer being of the ‘heroic’ interest given them at the time.

Colin Campbell is so hopelessly out of his depth as the young newlywed wrestling with his sexual identity that not even the excellence of Rita Tushingham and Dudley Sutton can salvage what were intended to be powerful scenes.

Sidney J. Furie's film is now something of a quaint period piece, full of techniques borrowed from the French New Wave.