Pat Rocco Dared

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Pat Rocco Dared (2021)

Directed by Morris Chapdelaine, Bob Christie

Documentary · 1h 30m

This entertaining and enlightening documentary sheds a light on a pioneering moment in film history and the gay rights movement, as it revisits the break-through 1960s gay films of Pat Rocco. Rocco was responsible for the very first gay films that were shown openly to the paying public in the late 1960s. Situated before hardcore porn became the norm, and in marked contrast to the somewhat darker gay porn that was coming out of New York at the time. Pat Rocco’s film were more sun-dappled, featuring tanned and happy-looking naked men on sail boats and on beaches, celebrating their identities and the beauty of the male body. The filmmakers got to talk to the generous, rather humble and open-minded Rocco just before his death. It took a team of dedicated Canadian filmmakers to capture a fairly obscure moment of indie film history that deserves to be remembered.

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Cast

Pat Rocco Self (archive footage) Charlie David Self Phyllis Diller Self (archive footage) Harvey Milk Self (archive footage) Spencer Reed Self
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Troy Perry Self Phillip Aubrey Self

Crew

Director
Morris Chapdelaine, Bob Christie
Writer
Bob Christie
Director of Photography
Nickolaos Stagias
Editor
Nickolaos Stagias

Details

Release date
2021-12-02
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Countries
Canada