Product Review

Acclaimed Broadway dancer and director Wakefield Poole created a sensation when he and producer Marvin Shulman four-walled the 55th Street Playhouse in New York City and released the gay feature BOYS IN THE SAND in 1971. Set in the Fire Island Pines and starring Casey Donovan in three vignettes, BOYS IN THE SAND changed gay men's lives and made Fire Island an international tourist destination. Poole began experimenting with Super 8 and 16mm film the year prior to releasing Boys in the Sand and this DVD presents four surviving short films: Andy - Poole's dizzying look at an Andy Warhol retrospective, A Gift - a Fire Island-shot precursor to BOYS IN THE SAND, Head Film - an experimental and humorous rainy day romp and Vittorio - a stop-motion cutout animated film. Both Boys in the Sand and Andy have been newly re-scanned and restored from the best available elements. The other short films are presented here restored for the first time on DVD.

Special Features:

• Newly Restored From The Best Surviving 16mm Elements
• Includes The Short Films: Andy, A Gift, Vittorio, Head Film
• Interview With Director Wakefield Poole
• Audio Commentary With Director Wakefield Poole
• Interview With Historian Linda Williams
• Archival Interview With Wakefield Poole And Star Casey Donovan