Fortune and Men's Eyes

1971
R
1h 42min

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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueYoung, naive Smitty is sent to prison for six months and bunks with other convicts, specifically quiet cocky bully Rocky. Eventually Rocky offers protection to Smitty for a price and Smitty ... Tout lireYoung, naive Smitty is sent to prison for six months and bunks with other convicts, specifically quiet cocky bully Rocky. Eventually Rocky offers protection to Smitty for a price and Smitty becomes a most reluctant sexual slave.Young, naive Smitty is sent to prison for six months and bunks with other convicts, specifically quiet cocky bully Rocky. Eventually Rocky offers protection to Smitty for a price and Smitty becomes a most reluctant sexual slave.

Réalisation
- Harvey Hart
- Jules Schwerin
Scénario
- John Herbert
Casting principal

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6,6/10

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Réalisation
- Harvey Hart
- Jules Schwerin
Scénario
- John Herbert
Casting principal

Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro

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GREAT MOVIE!

I own Fortune And Men's Eyes and I must say it is a terrific movie.After renting it several times I decided to buy it,and I'm very happy that I did.Smitty(Wendell Burton)is sentenced to six months in prison for smoking pot.While he is in prison he learns what it takes to stay alive.Michael Greer plays Queenie,a drag queen that shares the same cell with Smitty,along with two other homosexuals,Rocky and Mona.I have seen Michael Greer in two other movies,The Gay Decievers(which I also own)and The Rose.It was great to see him without a wig for a change!I think Michael is a great actor.Doing the math from the year he was born,1943,he must be in his fifties now.Rocky is actually the bad guy in the film.He tries to force Smitty into being his lover,and eventually Smitty has to fight back to protect himself.The movie based on homosexuality in prison.Made in 1971,four years before I was born,it is a great classic,maybe not so well known but for sure a great movie.If you have'nt seen it do see it,take my word for it,you will not be disappointed!

Anecdotes
Sal Mineo directed the 1969 Los Angeles production "Fortune and Men's Eyes and played the role of Rocky, a prison bully, who rapes a naive young prisoner, Smitty (played by Don Johnson in the L.A. production). Mineo's staging emphasized violence and sexuality. He added a scene to the play, staging Rocky's rape of Smitty in the prison shower, an event that had been kept off stage in earlier productions. The Los Angeles production, which was eventually moved to New York (without Mineo as an actor) featured full frontal nudity. Mineo also directed a subsequent San Francisco production. Although playwright John Herbert did not initially object to Mineo's alterations, he vociferously criticized Mineo's Los Angeles and New York stagings. (Being a convicted felon, the Canadian Herbert was unable to enter the U.S. to actually see the productions.) Herbert refused to sell him the film rights to his play, and the estrangement obviated any chance of Mineo being involved in the 1971 movie version of the play.