There, he eventually pursued a quiet interest in beefcake during his off-hours from Paramount’s publicity department.
The remarkably sprightly 89-year-old also did his time with British Lion, Rank, and Alexander Korda before taking off to New York in the ‘50s at David O. It turns out that the impish subject of this unreasonably inspiring profile-surely the first and only documentary about porn that doesn’t end with everyone addicted, convicted of murder, or dead-actually worked for the great British filmmaker during his apprenticeship in the post-war U.K. Imagine Michael Powell as a size queen with an 8mm camera and you’ll end up with something like Peter de Rome. Peter de Rome: Grandfather of Gay Porn (U.K.)
