Beefcake

The film looks at the 1950s muscle men's magazines and the representative industry that were popular supposedly as health and fitness guides, but were in reality primarily being purchased by the still underground homosexual community. Chief among the purveyors of this literature was Bob Mizer, who maintained a magazine and developed sexually inexplicit men's films for over 40 years. Aided by his mother, the two maintained a stable of not-so-innocent studs. At the end, the film moves into a courtroom drama, as Mizer is tried for running a male prostitute ring in the early '60s. Clips of Mizer's actual films starring individuals such as Jack LaLanne and Joe Dallesandro, are included.