Cadinot Classics 1

By: Rick W. Ski
In-House Review - Sep 27 2013

Cadinot Classics 1 - an international pre-condom compendium from In Tense Heat as well as Dream Boys aka Dream Buddies - consists of four complete films from the acclaimed director, and I gotta tell you, it's hard to say which one is the best among them. Escalier de Service has a bunch of hot and hugely hung humpies who run an apartment-painting service, with more emphasis on the "service" rather than painting. Eventually they have several luscious trysts on the staircase, in plain view of all to see. Any of you need their apartment building painted or their throats whitewashed? Terrific "public" sex, with an unexpected and quite hilarious moment of old-lady-neighbor intrusion. Le Chantier (aka Working Men) has moments of pure joy, including a young man secretly leaving his slumbering co-worker to head to the bathroom and jack his meat and douching his puckering hole with a shower nozzle before invading himself with a broom handle - all while his formerly- buddy watches. (The soundtrack is filed with off-camera screaming and yelling, just so you know.) It eventually leads to deep oral and blown loads. The second part features a chiseled African dude in hardhat working in the underground before a hirsute co-worker happens upon him and decide she wants in... which he does with his fingers the use of an oil can's contents before poking him. Stop may actually be my favorite (I know - I said I couldn't decide which one was my fave. Well, I'm getting a hardon just writing about it, so this must be the one). Simple set up, astounding outcome: A ridiculously hung young guy is hitchhiking his way to St. Tropez. He meets up with a biker who is more than happy to give him a lift - that is, if our young buck uses his oversized stick shift on him. Wait until you get a load of the hitchhiker's load squirting out of the biker's asshole. Yummy. My only complaint with this flick is that some of these stunners aren't credited in the cast list. Garçons de Rêves (Dream Boys) is truly phenomenal, and caused quite the uproar back in its day. Stories involving horny-while-pretending-to-take-confession masturbating priests usually are. The film is set in a clinic of sorts, but I guarantee you the A.M.A. hasn't seen anything like this: two massively hung male nurses plow the hell out of a young cover model Laurent Mialat in a sequence that had me rethinking my usual horror at getting my temperature taking anally. When's my next doctor's appointment, anyway? The package is fitted with some nice extras. Longtime Cadinot collaborator Francois Orenn's 30-min. behind-the-scenes-piece "Les Secret des Secrets de Famille" is a worthy bonus if only to see Cadinot at work, as are the plentiful preview trailers and option of subtitle choice (English, French, German or Spanish), though most of the films contain very little dialogue at all, if any. The cover artwork has been nicely updated as well. The remastering work is commendable, especially considering that most of this footage is well over 30 years old, and was shot on 16mm film without a mag soundtrack. There are a few black specks that pop up here and there, but none of the emulsion deterioration I feared is present in any way. Granted, some of the scenes are very dark - the latter part of Le Chantier (aka Working Men) could have definitely used some lighting adjustments - but who are we to complain? This is absolutely essential stuff, and if you've never seen any of the sadly-departed director's work Cadinot Classics 1 is a fine place to start.