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Song of the Loon
This groundbreaking classic gay love story made in 1969 is based on Richard Amory's best-selling trilogy and set in the American wilderness of 1870. Tame by today's permissive standards, Song of the Loon nevertheless remains one of the few examples of a sincere, well-produced film about unashamed and unpossessive gay male love. It was a landmark and controversial film for its promotion of "free love" rather than for its male nudity and kissing.
Troubled by sexual conflicts and pursued by a vengeful preacher and a former lover, young Ephraim MacIver seeks and finds peace of mind with the help of a handsome cowboy and a wise Native American medicine man. Ephraim, a white man, has left his lover and taken up with a trapper, Cyrus. Ephraim wants to settle down to an outdoors life of bliss as the object of affection of only one man, but Cyrus knows that Ephraim isn't dealing with his own, or his lover's, emotions on a realistic level. He takes Ephraim to an old tribal Native American medicine man, who imparts the wisdom of the ages to the young blond buck (through words and hallucinogenic visions): Sex and love are not one and the same. Cyrus and Ephraim learn from the group of Native American men they encounter how to live in the wilderness, and how to love each other and their "brothers" openly and freely.
In contrast to their untrammeled love for one another, Calvin and Montgomery - the preacher and Ephraim's former lover - fight each other because they are afraid and ashamed of their love for each other. Ultimately, Ephraim learns his lessons too well, for he leaves his idyllic life with Cyrus, his teacher and lover, to taste the joys of being a free, openly gay man.
Song of the Loon is a sixties ode to the beauties of pristine wilderness, Native American wisdom, male muscularity and handsomeness, gay self-acceptance, and a "do your own thing" philosophy. There is no explicit sex, though it is alluded to artistically. The locations are beautiful, shot in California's Trinity Alps and Big Pines National Reserve. (With the cooperation of the U.S. Forestry Service!)
Veteran director Andrew Herbert retained the pastoral quality and poetic beauty of the story through the delicate camerawork of photographer Robert Maxwell. The titular novel from Amory's trilogy sold easily a million copies in its original paperback record and remained among the top 10 best-selling original paperbacks printed in the U.S. during the next three years. Song of the Loon was the single most expensive gay movie ever made at the time of its release in 1969, with a $50,000 budget, financed by mainstream movie moguls. It was also one of the last major softcore theatrical films - only the surrealistic Pink Narcissus followed it - since the age of explicit gay cinema had already begun.
Product Information
- Length: 1 hrs. 19 mins.
- Rating: XXX
- Released: Jan 13 2023
- Production Year: 1969
- Empire SKU: 3359175
- Studio: Bijou Classics
