The leather boys

Original title: The Leather Boys

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Colin Campbell and Rita Tushingham in The leather boys (1964)

An immature teenager marries a young biker but becomes disenchanted with the realities of working-class marriage--and her husband's relationship with his best friend.An immature teenager marries a young biker but becomes disenchanted with the realities of working-class marriage--and her husband's relationship with his best friend.An immature teenager marries a young biker but becomes disenchanted with the realities of working-class marriage--and her husband's relationship with his best friend.

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Rita Tushingham

Colin Campbell

Reggie

Dudley Sutton

Pete

Gladys Henson

Gran

Avice Landone

Reggie's Mother
(as Avice Landon)

Lockwood West

Reggie's Father

Betty Marsden

Dot's Mother

Martin Matthews

Uncle Arthur
(as Martin Mathews)

Johnny Briggs

Boy Friend

James Chase

Geoffrey Dunn

Mr. Lunnis

Dandy Nichols

Mrs. Stanley

Elizabeth Begley

Woman Receptionist

Valerie Varnam

Brenda

Jill Mai Meredith

June
(as Jill Meredith)

Brian Phelan

Man in Jeans

Oliver MacGreevy

Merchant Seaman
(as Oliver Mac.Greevy)

Sylvia Kay

Schoolteacher

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Trivia
The motorcycle diner/meeting point was filmed at The Ace Cafe on the North Circular Road, *the* meeting point for British motorcyclists in the 1960s. Closed down and used as a tyre depot in the 1970s and 1980s, the site was restored and reopened in September 2001 and is again popular with motorcyclists and car enthusiasts. Upon its reopening, Rita Tushingham visited the Ace, later doing so with both Dudley Sutton and Colin Campbell.

Goofs
During the Edinburgh race, Dot and her new mate keep up with the main pack right up until their bike breaks down. But their bike's an Ariel Arrow - 250 cc, ridden 2-up - so it's unthinkable that it could keep up with much-more-powerful bikes with single riders.

Quotes
Reggie: My granddad died today.
Pete: Don't take it like that--'e 'ad a good run for 'is money, didn't 'e?

Connections
Featured in The Smiths: Girlfriend in a Coma (1987)

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7/10

And So They Were Married

Rita Tushingham and Colin Campbell get married. Things don't work out. He expects sex , a clean home and meals on time. She...seems vaguer on what's entailed. They quarrel constantly and he walks out to live in his grandmother's house with his motorcycle buddy, Dudley Sutton.

There's a lot of gay subtext in this movie, what with the leather motorcycle togs, the men sharing a bed in Gladys Henson's house. Both of the principals seem lost and clueless as to what marriage entails, and fall into old habits. It's one of those kitchen-sink dramas that were popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the performances under under-rated director Sidney Furie are terrific, but it's a movie in which there is no one to root for. The camerawork by Gerald Gibbs seems purposefully gray and gloomy, with a constantly foggy outdoors.