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Boot Black Blues
Rating: 4 Stars
Produced by Tom Settle. Directed by Kristofer Weston. Written by Scott Pollard. Videography by Todd Montgomery. Edited by Max Phillips. Music by Sergio Montana. Starring Danny Roddick, Alex Chandler, Josh Weston, Nick Marino, Simon Angel, Parker Williams, Kyle Lewis, Lucas Di Fubbiano, Trey Casteel, and Colby Taylor.
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Danny Roddick plays a golden waif who looks like a loaf of freshly baked bread. This soulful young male, whose name is Oliver, occupies squatlike digs within a grimy, derelict San Francisco warehouse. (The eviction notice he finds taped to his door demands six months' rent, however.) Oliver raises money for food by shining men's boots at two bucks a pair, having set up shop in the back of an abandoned club. This unlikely menial has honey-colored hair, a bunny-cute face beginning to take on character (Roddick is 29), and the physique of an Athenian discus thrower. During sex, his air of innocence vanishes with one lewd curl of his lip. It's hard to believe this exquisite, versatile, instinctively whory quasi-vagrant isn't raking in $400 an hour for services far more intimate than polishing boots.

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ut he doesn't know his own worth. When customer Josh Weston offers a three-dollar tip for sex, he accepts without hesitation; after fucking poor Oliver raw, Weston drops a crumpled five-dollar bill on the floor, then leaves. The boot-black still can't afford to buy lunch, but deli clerk Simon Angel accepts sex in exchange for a meal, rewarding Oliver's efforts with a sandwich the size of his thigh. Weston, meanwhile, tells his friends about the great, cheap, spit-'n'-polish lay he's discovered. Amiable daddy Parker Williams, having previously spotted Oliver stepping off a bus from East Bumfuck, decides to investigate. This leads to a barn-burning three-way involving the boot-black, Williams, and Williams's visiting fuck buddy Trey Casteel.

Deftly directed by Kristofer Weston, the sex in this dizzy but irresistible COLT/Buckshot release is especially steamy in the first and last of five hardcore scenes. With the possible exception of an extraneous men's room sequence, everything works. The cast, including Danny Roddick's off-screen (sometimes on-screen) partner and fellow Buckshot Man Alex Chandler, is uniformly first-rate. But the spotlight belongs to Roddick, who holds it with ease.