Cruisin' the Castro, Uncut (1981)

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Description: Scenes of the streets, the Bay, and the men of San Francisco intersperse the episodes of this film which illustrates the rewards to be reaped from cruising the famous strip in this very gay city. Two young men with aching hard-ons have sex on a rooftop. Two guys in cowboy gear do it in front of a fire in a renovated farmhouse. A leather-jacketed hustler does it acrobatically, cumming in his own mouth. A three-way ends with simultaneous orgasms onto Richard Locke's hairy torso. Dick Fisk and a friend do it very conventionally in a bed.
In a sort of post-script, we learn that the two cowboys have become lovers and settled down in the farmhouse with their old hound dog.
At its best, Cruisin' the Castro conveys a sense of the healthy, liberated attitude toward sex that has become part of San Francisco's mythology. There's not a single performer boring to look at. The men are young, masculine, have well-defined bodies and beautifully-shaped cocks that get hard quickly and stay that way. When they climax, they shoot copious amounts of cum. And best of all, the men manage to seem eager and enthusiastic about their trysts rather than bored or laconic.
Review:
Cruisin' the Castro is, to the best of this reviewer's knowledge, the only gay hardcore film that was produced and distributed by Jim and Artie Mitchell's Mitchell Brother Film Group, using the name Cinart. This reviewer has no knowledge of whether the Mitchell Brothers or any of their usual cohorts had any involvement past just producing and distributing the film.

Cruisin' the Castro is an all-sex gay hardcore film. There is a slight attempt to bookend the film to make it appear as if it is a cohesive work. The beginning of the film presents a narrative that in the 1850s, clipper ships brought rugged men to San Francisco for the California Gold Rush and that now in the 1980s, another breed is invading San Francisco. A brief non-sexual scene at the end of the film brings the topic of the 1850s back up when the participants of the second sex scene discuss the age of their home.

Outside of this poorly contrived bookend concept, Cruisin' the Castro is a straight-out all-sex film. There is a short dialog between the actors or a brief narration before each sex scene, but none of that connects the scenes together or really even sets up a vignette-style story for each scene. As far as the sex scenes themselves go, this reviewer is straight, so it is hard to rate the sex itself. The scenes looked well shot and the actors seemed to be into each scene.

Cruisin' the Castro is a rather standard all-sex gay hardcore film that today really exists only as a footnote since it was produced by Mitchell Brothers Film Group. Had the Mitchell Brothers not produced the film, it likely would have been completely forgotten by now. There really isn't anything overly memorable within the film.

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