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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.
The Leather Boys: Directed by Sidney J. Furie. With Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell, Dudley Sutton, Gladys Henson. An immature teenager marries a young biker but becomes disenchanted with the realities of working-class marriage--and her husband's relationship with his best friend.
The Leather Boys. Young, rebellious Englishwoman Dot (Rita Tushingham) escapes her dull family life by impulsively marrying bike mechanic Reggie (Colin Campbell). Their union, however, begins ...
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Apr 8, 2022 · the-leather-boys-1964. Scanner. Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4. Sound. sound. 1964 British drama film about the rocker subculture in London featuring a gay motorcyclist.
Oct 8, 2018 · Based on the novel “The Leather Boys” by Gillian Freeman, this British drama follows the ‘kitchen sink’ realist movement style of the early 60’s, portraying real people living real lives. No Hollywood epic here.
Without having a real plan for the future apart from marrying Dot, his rebellious high-school sweetheart who is still in school, leather-clad working-class mechanic Reggie only feels alive when he rides his "Bathtub" Triumph 5TA Speed Twin motorcycle.
The Leather Boys follows Reggie, a young mechanic who rashly rushes into marriage with Dot, a 15 year old who leaves school to become his housewife. Both are teenagers driven to wed by hormones rather than love and long term compatibility.
The Leather Boys (1964) Hit the road: gay guilt and desire in the mid-60s. Envisaged as a ‘Romeo and Romeo in the south London suburbs,’ Gillian Freeman’s 1961 novel centred on an explicitly homosexual relationship.
An immature teenager marries a young biker but becomes disenchanted with the realities of working class marriage and her husband's relationship with his best friend.
Based on Gillian Freeman's novel of the same name, The Leather Boys is notable for one of the earliest sympathetic depictions of a gay working class man. Rita Tushingham stars as Dot, the childhood sweetheart of young Reg (Colin Campbell).
