Navy Blue

By: Keeneye Reeves
In-House Review - Jan 01 2011

This one was a nice little surprise. Truly an artifact of a by-gone era, Navy Blue is sure to get your balls nice and blue, that's for sure. Ostensibly taking place in Manhattan and on a Navy destroyer that's just pulled in to port, this pre-condom spunkfest had me kicking back and watching it in its entirety - no pauses or fast-forwarding. An early scene with Jack and George rutting about had me both cracking up and rubbing off. Their sequence (replete with tons of body hair, condomless fudge-packing and a lot of spilled spunk) is played out with Christmas carols (!) in the background. Totally obscene and totally hot. Keep an eye out for an amazing helicopter air-rub; I wanted to join the mile-high club right away after it. There's a straight scene too, involving some muff-diving that - even though it only lasts for a few minutes - had me fidgeting. (Early 70s bush turns me off, what can I say?) The music is fucking hilarious, ranging from very "vintage early 70s" to Ravel's Bolero and the costumes and New York City locales are sure to stir up memories for those of you old enough to remember (not me - I'm a mid-90s "Sound Factory" child) and get you younger guys real curious and jealous of missing out on such a sleazy cum-filled time. As with all films of the era, the overdubbing is horrendous, but that actually gives the flick (which was shot on film and has been restored quite nicely) even more appeal. The plot moves along just fine (dragging only ever so often) and the sex stays consistently hot, spunk-filled and sweaty, if a little "vanilla." The final scene is straight out of a mushy Hollywood tearjerker, and is the only drawback here. But for collectors of classics and for fans of pre-condom fucking, this hot and kitschy award-winner from the Gay Film Institute is a certainly worth checking out.

By: halfspidey

Sex in a helicopter. Sex with Christmas music. Straight sex (!!). A sappy ending. These are just a few of the oddball elements in "Navy Blue," a peek at the early days of porn in which filmmakers actually tried to construct a story to explain the motivations of sex. The production seems to have its own sense of humor built in as Holiday tunes play hilariously during the sex scenes... and strangely, it all seems to work!

Beginning with a fantasy as Wrangler daydreams about Payne being his "X-mas present," it continues with a wild sequence with Payne picking up a hunky streetside Santa (during orgasm, Payne "rings Santa's bell" - literally!). It was inspiration to pair Wrangler & Payne together, for they seem to be the flip side of the coin of each other: Wrangler, the blond "actor's actor of porn," is typically good, being widely expressive & vocal during sex; and Payne is darkly handsome & subdued. Their climactic scene together (a result of Payne having sex with a woman - YECH! - in which things are not as they appear to seem) as they confess their true feelings is passionate & hot. The ending is needlessly corny, there to obviously wring tears (when the lovers are separated by Wrangler's transfer to another ship), but it just doesn't work.

In spite of this, "Navy Blue" is a nicely paced outing, with good costumes & scenery, and one of Wrangler's best.