ManPlay Double Pack Closed Set: The New Crew Joe Gage Sex Files Vol. 1: Jack-Off Party at Billy Bob's a review by Onan the Vulgarian Best of Phoenix Alternative Video Reviewer

	Closed Set: Colton Ford, Blake Harper, Michael Brandon, Sean Storm, Carlos Morales, Damian Ford, Adam Wolfe, Diego Alvarez, Chad Hunt, Ben Archer, Beau, Peter Dixon, Duke, Zach Davenport, Rory Park, Nick Piston, Steven Richards, Rich Strong. Sex Files: Deacon Frost, Lex Kyler, Rhett O'Hara, John Carlos, Derek Dewars, Michael Gomez, Jordan, Michael Knight, York Powers, Damian Steel, Walt Walters. Directed by Joe Gage.
	Titan Media, P.O. Box 411345, San Francisco, CA 94141. Toll-free orders 800-360-7204; fax 415-252-7747. Internet www.titanmen.com.
	Click here to purchase.

Titan's new ManPlay Double Pack repackages two Joe Gage films from several years ago.
    When a director has produced titles as long as 30 years ago that still emerge trippingly from the tongues of porn fans, that's a huge accomplishment. Joe Gage cemented his fame right out of the starting gate, with his road trilogy, Kansas City Trucking Co. (1976), El Paso Wrecking Corp. (1977) and L.A. Tool and Die (1979). He added a fourth installment to the trilogy in 2001, Tulsa County Line.
    The original Closed Set (1981) benefited greatly from the "coattail" effect of the road trilogy. Gage also released Closed Set II in 1984, a film almost no one remembers. The theme of the Closed Set videos, novel at the time, was to put a bunch of naked guys in a room and let their sexual energy direct the outcome. Taking into consideration how technology has changed, and how sex between men is different now than then, Gage re-imagined Closed Set for a new generation of porn watchers and come up with Closed Set: The New Crew in 2002.
    The New Crew begins when Michael Brandon makes eye contact with Carlos Morales. That's a potentially explosive combination of relentless top and insatiable bottom. Brandon follows Morales into a room where Sean Storm, naked, is jacking off. As the panorama widens, two new guys appear: company VP Blake Harper (in jacket and tie) and line producer Steve Richards. A gaffer, a rigging grip, best boy electric, key grip and a location manager round out the crew and someone slams the door, which is marked "Closed Set."
    All very high drama, but I wanted to see Brandon fuck Morales. Unfortunately, I never got my wish, and The New Crew became The Fuck That Never Was. On the set, however, everyone is fair game for everyone else. The invisible divide between in-front-of and behind-the-camera crumbles like the Berlin wall. Hell, they pass the camera around! Distinctions blur, such as who's doing what to whom.
    The boom operator's torso is cut like Waterford crystal, and the sight of him fucking Sean Storm like a rag doll causes more than one guy on the set to toss his load. Morales squirts while an army of hands works his body like some automated massage machine.
    Colton Ford wanders into a room of glory holes, where three cocks await. He gives each a shake. Two cops walk in — Adam Wolfe and Ben Archer — but Colton can handle his birds in the hand so the cops jack each other while they watch him bring three hardons to climax, then they shoot in Colton's face.
    In the main room, there's face-packing everywhere, to a twangy blues guitar. Colton gets Harper to join the action, fucking him on the side, while the rest cluster around ponytailed Duke and cum on him as he fucks Storm. Colton and Blake add their jizz to the blizzard, bringing the film to a close.
    The DVD has behind the scenes, previews, ordering info and a Web link.

Joe Gage Sex Files vol. 1 was released in 2003. The ever-charming and randy Rhett O'Hara invites his straight buddies to his open-house, to drink beer and watch porn. He covers the furniture with sheets and sets out a jar of lube.
    Tall, dark and handsome Jesse is arrives first, and he parties without waiting for anyone else. After perusing Rhett's porno mags, he slips a video into the VCR. We get glimpses of a chick getting boned onscreen while Jesse extracts 10 inches and pumps out a thick load, licking his lips and making sex-faces to a crescendo of squeals coming from the TV, where the porn chick cums at the same time. We leave him and her with matching satisfied smiles.
    Jeff and Earl arrive next. They pop their beers and pull out their cocks, keeping one eye on the TV and one eye on each other as they settle side-by-side on the couch, pass the lube, and watch a multi-racial gang bang. Rhett comes in with a hardon, pointing it at Earl, as if an invitation. Everyone jerks someone else, Rhett leaves without cumming, and Jeff and Earl jack each other to orgasm.
    Dark and wiry Steve arrives with Chet and Bobby. They sit and compare cocks. Bobby and Chet grab each other's meat; they (and the camera) pay no attention to Steve until he kneels between them, bringing his face ever-so-slowly closer to Chet's cock until he's sure Chet won't slug him, at which point he alternately sucks Bobby and Chet. Rhett watches and grins. Chet and Bobby cum and they all leave.
    Four more guys arrive, Vince, George, Ben and Lee. They lube up, Rhett staying this time, and George offers a juicy foul-mouthed commentary on the porno tape. They beat their meat, and sometimes each other's, for what seems like a long time before delivering four cum shots. Rhett produces a fountain which hits him in the eye, and the camera ignores Ben.
    This was a disappointing production. You could see the sexual tension Gage was trying to achieve, but it never reaches a high enough level for long enough periods of time.
    The DVD has previews, ordering info, Web link.

Top