Pat Rocco Dared

December. 02,2021      
Rating:
8.2
Trailer Synopsis Cast

This entertaining and enlightening documentary sheds a light on a pioneering moment in film history and the gay rights movement, as it revisits the break-through 1960s gay films of Pat Rocco. Rocco was responsible for the very first gay films that were shown openly to the paying public in the late 1960s. Situated before hardcore porn became the norm, and in marked contrast to the somewhat darker gay porn that was coming out of New York at the time. Pat Rocco’s film were more sun-dappled, featuring tanned and happy-looking naked men on sail boats and on beaches, celebrating their identities and the beauty of the male body. The filmmakers got to talk to the generous, rather humble and open-minded Rocco just before his death. It took a team of dedicated Canadian filmmakers to capture a fairly obscure moment of indie film history that deserves to be remembered.

Pat Rocco as  Self (archive footage)
Charlie David as  Self
Phyllis Diller as  Self (archive footage)
Harvey Milk as  Self (archive footage)
Spencer Reed as  Self
Phillip Aubrey as  Self

Reviews

Scanialara
2021/12/02

You won't be disappointed!

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Ehirerapp
2021/12/03

Waste of time

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Clevercell
2021/12/04

Very disappointing...

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Kimball
2021/12/05

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

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