Story Film Classics: Slave Market

a review by Onan the Vulgarian
Best of Phoenix Alternative Video Reviewer

	Cast: see below. Directed by Bob Mizer.
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Story Film Classics: Slave Market assembles 20 short films made by Bob Mizer from 1957 to 1973. A common theme of many of them is slavery, not in any racial sense but as costume theatrics that hearken back to ancient Rome. And what better a theme than that to warrant showing scantily clad youths in bondage?
The films are not in chronological order, so you will see models in posing straps alternating with models who are fully nude, and color alternating with black and white. Eleven of the 20 films are in black and white.
Here's a complete list of the film titles and models; an asterisk indicates the black and white films:

Slave Market — Ray Fowle, Don McConnell, Reed Phippen, Andy Martin
*Pose Please — John Tristram, Larry Marinan
Wizard of Azz — Ron Nichols, Dean Howard
*Beat The Devil — Gary Hammock, Joe Kiser, Jerry Bell
Witch Boy — Bob Adams, Charles Butler
*Gift for Dimitrius — John Krivos, Boris Demitroff, Jerry Lewis
Sleeping Beauty & the Beast — Dick Voldemar, John Travis
Jewel Thief — 8 Unknown Models
*Alladin — Richard Collier, Kelly Mangum, Van Duke, Dick Dearwester, Jim Wilson, Jan Grant
*Billy Hawkins Adventure — Billy Hawkins
Go Go Sailor — Unknown Model
*Lil Bear's Dream Hero — Wayne Bedwell, Reuben Lee Aulds
Jay Howard & Ray Curtis — Jay Howard, Ray Curtis
Lonely Artists — David Gore, Frank Gump
Pharoah's New Slave — Victor Gottlieb, John Manning, Jim Manning, Joe Manning, Richard Collier, Frank Renault
*Seeing Double — Denny Densman, Dean Densman
*David O'Boyle Posing — David O'Boyle
*Keith Stephan Posing — Keith Stephan
*Jim Horn Posing — Jim Horn
*Forrester Millard Posing — Forrester Millard (Forrester D'Orlac)

There's no sex, although the models wrestle, flex, frolic and engage in various forms of calisthenics and acrobatics designed to titillate as well as show off their youthful musculature. Forrester Millard, the exotic, dark-haired model on the DVD cover and in the final film, was the first model Bob Mizer ever photographed, in 1945.
Be sure to watch "Pose Please" in the DVD extras. It's made up of actual celluloid clipped out of Mizer's film footage. His clippings, instead of ending up n the proverbial cutting room floor, ended up preserved in a film canister, from which they have been resurrected. In one of them, you'll see Mizer himself.
The DVD has studio info, contact information, slideshows, trailers, casting audition, "Pose Please."

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