- Kansas City Trucking Co. (1976 film)
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name = Kansas City Trucking Co.
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director = Tim Kincaid (as Joe Gage)
producer = Sam Gage
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starring = Richard Locke
Steve BoydJack Wrangler
music = Al Steinman
cinematography = Nick Elliot
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distributor = Joe Gage Films
released = 1976
runtime = 67 min.
country = USA
language = English
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imdb_id = 0222098"Kansas City Trucking Co." is a 1976 gay pornographic film and the first in what has come to be known as director Joe Gage's "Working Man Trilogy". The film stars Richard Locke, Steve Boyd, and
Jack Wrangler . Gage's "Working Man Trilogy" begins with "Kansas City Trucking Co." (1976), continues with "El Paso Wrecking Corp." (1978), and concludes with "L.A. Tool & Die " (1979).Plot summary
Hank, a trucker, turns out new hire Joe on a long haul to the West Coast. The men masturbate together while on the road and participate in an all-male orgy at a truckers' bunkhouse in Los Angeles.
Cast
* Steve Boyd as Joe
* Bud Jaspar as Fred
* Richard Locke as Hank
* Duff Paxton as Dan
* Maria Reina as Joe's Girl
* Skip Sheppard as Billy, a hitchhiker
* Dane Tremmel as Otis, a cowboy
* Kurt Williams as Desert Rat
*Jack Wrangler as JackCrew
* Jon Denberg, still
photographer
* Nick Elliot,cinematography
* Don Fraiser, transportation
* Sam Gage, producer
*Tim Kincaid (as Joe Gage), director
*Tim Kincaid (as Joe Gage),screenplay
* Glen Nathan, sound
* Al Steinman, original musicBehind the scenes
* Richard Locke is the only actor to appear in all three "Working Man Trilogy" films.
* The original film reportedly included a "piss scene" now lost to posterity as the result of distribution editing over the years.
* "Working Man Trilogy" was originally called "Kansas City Trilogy".Awards
*Director Joe Gage became a 2001 GayVN Video Awards Hall of Fame inductee, largely because of the significance of the "Working Man" trilogy. James McCourt described Gage as "the
Douglas Sirk of queer porn." [McCourt, James. "Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985". W. W. Norton & Company, 2003. ISBN (0-393-05051-3)]*In 2006,
Adult Video News named "Working Man Trilogy" to the top ten most innovative, influential, and hottest gay movies of all time.DVD releases
The films comprising "Working Man Trilogy" have been restored and are available on DVD.
ee also
*
Tim Kincaid
*Gay pornography
*List of gay porn stars
* List of gay pornographic movie studios
*Bisexual pornography (genre) References
* Burger, John R. "One-Handed Histories: The Eroto-Politics of Gay Male Video Pornography". Haworth Press. (ISBN 1-56024-860-2)
* McCourt, James. "Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985". W. W. Norton & Company, 2003. ISBN (0-393-05051-3)
* Ramone, Mike, Tim Connelly, Peter Stokes, Acme Anderson (2006). "The AVN Guide to the 500 Greatest Adult Films of All Time". Thunder's Mouth Press. (ISBN 1-56025-719-9).External links
*imdb_title|0222098
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