Some gay porn movies rank as classics but somehow slip beneath the radar as the years go by. Such is the case with "Brother Load," a 1983 celebration of all things twinkish by the great William Higgins, which explores several seriously sexy themes, including one that has made the rounds of Internet photo galleries almost from the very beginning of time. A series of somewhat, but not necessarily, related scenes, this flick revolves around tales woven by Joe and Tim Hardy, a pair of blond-haired skinny fellows who are probably not brothers, but, what the hell, they resemble each other enough to get away with it.
They're on the living room couch reminiscing about another pair of brothers, Paul and Bobby Madison. The latter, a cute curly-haired brunet (left on cover), meets his brother (right on cover), an extremely handsome dude, in Hawaii during Bobby's Army furlough. (Yeah, right.) In the hotel room, Paul looks longingly at Bobby, who is dozing in his tighty-whities on the bed, and moves in on him with the bulge in his tight jeans practically ripping his fly. He lowers the briefs, and takes Bobby's surprisingly huge cock right down his throat (Higgins was not one for fucking around with much foreplay in the 80s), and they kiss and moan as older brother Paul devours every naked inch of Bobby as the latter helps him out of his clothes. A few remarkable things about this famous scene: Paul is the unquestioned aggressor (and, to my mind, the hotter dude), but it is Bobby who is the top. First, he slips his bare cock into Paul's beautiful tan-lined ass, belly down, then flips him over for some deep kissing (lots of kissing in this scene) before he lifts Paul's hairy legs above his hairy chest and shoves his cock in missionary. It's a quick fuck, followed by a side-by-side cum-shot that leaves Bobby gasping and Paul mesmerized. The scene is filled with passion, which seems real and comfortable at the same time. A couple of brief shots of the boys romping on the beach is followed by a mutual jerk-off on the terrace of their hotel room overlooking Waikiki Beach.
The Hardy boys segue the story by announcing that Paul (who is named John in the flick) is coming home to L.A., as Bobby is returning to Hawaii after he has left the military. Bobby is seen landing in a small plane with Carl Reeves, a swarthy muscle hunk, and they meet up with Scott Simpson, a skinny blond. They go to the beach for a fairly hot three-way in which Bobby is the premier cocksucker. They cum all over each other, then Scott splits for a solo jerk on a Jeep in the dunes, and the other two bid him goodbye and head for a private tryst in the sand. In another quick but intense scene, Bobby fucks Carl's fabulous bubble-butt and cums on his chest as they kiss. So exits Bobby (who is probably best remembered as the F-student who visits teacher Matt Ramsey, a.k.a. Peter North, in "The Bigger the Better," and gets the living daylights fucked out of him).
Back in L.A., Paul and a blond friend walk past a backyard pool chatting about Bobby, but Paul puts everything into perspective: "Let's go inside and fuck." And fuck they do. In a scene played out totally on the couch, filled with kissing, crotch-grabbing and some fabulous cocksucking by two young men who are hung and in lust. The blond is especially hung, and Paul has a grand old time playing vacuum in the 69 position. This time, however, he gets to use his tool more than he did with his brother. Fucking his pal doggy and missionary on the couch before both of them explode in torrents of cream that looks mighty delicious splashed all over Paul's hairy chest, which the blond rubs with cum-covered hands as they kiss and kiss and kiss in a very hot ending.
Now comes the box-boy scene, the one you've seen all over the Net. Long-haired David Grayson and preppy Tim Richards are two skinny twinks (and I mean twinks) who work as box boys at the local market, except David has a broken leg and needs Tim to help him to his home with his groceries. His "home" is a yellow van. Once there, David wastes no time telling Tim that he's really a hustler and gets the other kid to strip him (and himself) and learn how to suck cock. "You do your job well," says Tim as David eats his fat, man-sized cock. "I get a bang out of it," is one of David's replies in a chatty yet oddly hot-and-sweet encounter. David throws a quick introductory doggy-fuck into Tim's tight skinny ass before he reclines and cums in a thick gooey stream as Tim kisses him ravenously while finger-fucking him. Tim then spills his seed on a pair of briefs as David drives his tongue down his throat.
David shares a joint with Tim. He tells him how he was busted for jaywalking in Georgia, and skinny Tim is thrown into a jail cell with a couple of hunky dudes who look like they were roped off Malibu beach. The three get down to fucking and sucking, all of which is captured on closed-circuit TV by the jailer for our edification. The lighting's a little dark, but you get the point.
Finally, our cute Hardy brothers decide to take matters into their own hands. They suck and fuck the rest of the afternoon away on the living room couch. The flick ends with a totally unrelated scene featuring a hot blond hunk whacking off to a male porn magazine in a warehouse.
"Brother Load" is a cut below the best of Higgins, but still immensely entertaining and the box-boy scene is an absolute revelation (so is Paul Madison, who unfortunately seems to have made only one other flick, "The Young Olympians," also directed by Higgins).
DVD features: Chapter selections (with sub-chapter breakdown: kissing, fucking, cum-shots); bonus scene (an orgy scene from "CatalinaVille," directed by Josh Eliot, featuring Steve Rambo, Max Grand, Tony Zerega, Cliff Parker and Cole Tucker); trailers; and no regional coding (playable worldwide).
A DVD Review by Bo Champion
