L.A. Tool and Die, Full movie (1979)

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Description: Scene Breakdowns
Scene 1. guys
Scene 2. Casey Donovan, Derrick Stanton
Scene 3. Richard Locke
Scene 4. Becky Savage, Paul Barresi
Scene 5. Shawn Victors
Scene 6. Johnny Falconberg, Will Seagers
Scene 7. Dan Pace, Scott Sinclair
Scene 8. guy, Richard Locke
Scene 9. Bob Blount, Chuck Cord
Scene 10. 4 guys, Richard Locke, Will Seagers
Scene 11. Richard Locke, Will Seagers
Review:
Closing Tim Kincaid's genre-defining "trucking trilogy", picking up where KANSAS CITY TRUCKING CO. and EL PASO WRECKING CORP. left off, L.A. TOOL & DIE - clearly the most densely plotted of the lot - tracks the last stop on truck driver Hank's journey towards personal growth as he encounters true love and all its attendant pitfalls.
This time starting rather than culminating with another typically scorching "Joe Gage" orgy, the narrative finds our hero (again portrayed by the phenomenal Richard Locke, who sadly passed away from AIDS in 1996) grappling with advanced age and there's a lovely little touch when Hank skittishly glances around before putting on much-needed glasses to read the land deed he has invested all of his hard-earned cash in, subject matter rarely touched upon in the wish fulfillment world of porn. A sudden attraction to hopeless romantic Will Seagers (who had already tussled with Locke in the Mitchell Bros. produced CRUISIN' THE CASTRO) proves mutual yet sends them both scurrying off in opposite directions for radically different reasons.
While Hank balks at the very idea of settling down which would require him to face up to maturity and responsibility, the traumatized Seagers is still reeling from losing the love of his life on the battlefields of Vietnam. Cue tearful flashback to their last gasp farewell, complete with Will's promise to love again! Holy Handbag, Batman! Only the all male side of the XXX industry ever dares to get this schmaltzy and manages to do so with such disarming honesty that only hardened cynics will feel compelled to mock rather than root for them two lovebirds to wind up together. When they do, Locke's land naturally turns out to be a worthless piece of dry desert until they accidentally hit water and it comes spurting out sky high - ooh, very suggestive! - in a hilarious yet heartfelt tribute to the Loretta Young vehicle COME TO THE STABLE!
Before we get to our handsome heroes' well-deserved sunset however, there are some splendidly scalding sex scenes on display. Most people undoubtedly remember cult king Casey Donovan (star of Wakefield Poole's BOYS IN THE SAND) tied to a tree, after having his car stolen in the middle of the night, with Good Samaritan Derrick Stanton (the Bill Higgins discovery from BOYS OF VENICE, face unseen) taking back door liberties rather than setting the poor chap free. John Travolta's tabloid nightmare and current uniform fetish filmmaker Paul Barresi provides Kincaid's by now customary straight schtupp with minor league starlet Becky Savage (showcased in Lawrence T. Cole's CHALLENGE OF DESIRE), deliberately tossing his spent condom towards fruitlessly trying to hide peeping tom Shaun Victors from Higgins' CLASS OF '84. Hunky Johnny Falconberg, who has the hot roadside gas station glory hole encounter with Locke, never made another movie. This also marks the final appearance of blonde, bewhiskered Bob Blount whose career goes all the way back to Fred Halsted's 1972 masterpiece L.A. PLAYS ITSELF - how's that for an eerie coincidence ? - and who died in a motorcycle accident a couple of weeks after shooting had finished.
The first two parts of the trilogy's nearly avant garde associative editing and expressionist cinematography (DoP Nick Elliot was replaced with Richard Youngblood on this outing) have been abandoned for a more conventional, plot-driven approach appropriate to Hank's grinding down to a halt, taking time to smell the roses. Suffice it to say that these three crowning achievements to Kincaid's as of yet still largely uncharted career go a long way in redeeming porn from either side of the fence as a genre to be reckoned with from both a critical and sociological point of view. Plus, on top of that, they just happen to be really hot fornication flicks!

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