Passing Strangers by Arthur J. Bressan

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Newly restored from the original negative in a beautiful 2K scan, Arthur J. Bressan, Jr.’s pioneering gay adult drama, Passing Strangers tells the story of two gay men in San Francisco who meet via a newspaper ad and fall in love. The stunning Robert Adams stars as Robert, the 18 year-old high school senior who is the object of affection for the film’s 28-year old protagonist Tom (Robert Carnagey). Tom’s curly locks and luscious good looks seem to make him irresistible to all — as he spends his time cruising Polk Street, going to the baths and the bars — but when Robert responds to his personal ad in the gay paper, Tom finds himself falling in love. Passing Strangers is most definitely a porn film, but like all of Arthur Bressan’s work, it offers an earnest and deeply engaging gay love story at its core.

Robert’s process of coming out and falling in love provides the perfect elemental gay movie plot — as his lover and mentor, Tom takes him around San Francisco in what even today seems like the dream date of all time. In addition to any number of intimate bedroom sex scenes and jack-off sequences, their adventures include a day-trip to Angel Island for kite-flying and hot outdoor fucking, a bike ride through the city and a day out marching in the actual Gay Freedom Day parade of 1974. Infused with a passionate gay political sensibility, the fabric of the film conveys a visceral impression of gay liberation and the newfound activist freedom of those early post-Stonewall years. The extended sequence at the Pride march also incorporates Bressan’s historic footage of San Francisco’s first official Gay Freedom Day celebration in 1972.


Format: mp4

Duration: 1:16:10

Video: 1920x1080, AVC (H.264), 4334kbps

Audio: 122kbps









File size: 2.4 GB