New York City Pro Review

Reviewed by Joe Shaver  on  2/25/2006

I first saw Leo Ford in a little theatre off Times Square. The film was J. Brian’s Flashback. It featured Leo along with his then lover Jamie Wingo. Leo, whose real name was Leo Higeford, was beautiful, slender, and a natural blond. I fell instantly in love. Jamie was cute, but Leo was perfection. When Jamie sucked Leo’s delightful cock, I seethed with envy. When Leo went down on Jamie I was beside myself. Although I had never been fucked, when Leo fucked Jamie I was willing to let him do the same to me. But the ultimate moment arrived when Leo lifted his legs and Jamie’s cock entered into Leo. I came in my pants. I hadn’t touched myself and yet I came right there in the theatre. I was terribly embarrassed and afraid to leave after the film was over. There was nothing for it but to stay there and watch that scene again. For many years that remained my favorite scene in all porn and Leo the main object of my fantasies.

NEW YORK CITY PRO can’t hold a candle to J. Brian’s Flashback nor to other films with this remarkable performer. (Those that are available on DVD are listed at the end of this review.) In fact NEW YORK CITY PRO was my least favorite of all of Leo’s films. Seeing it on DVD after all these years I know why and also why I only had vague memories of it. It’s really a pretty bad film and Leo certainly doesn’t look his best.

Shots of NYC. Leo playing a closeted businessman exits his office building. He’s wearing a pinstriped suit. Serial Mom would kill him though because of his shoes. He passes a street news vendor. Leo fantasies that the young man is a football player and that they are together in a locker room. The news vendor is in his uniform. “I’ll bet you’d like to see me jack off", he says in this heavily dubbed film. Stripping down to his jock, he fishes out his cock. The background music is from a radio and we hear throughout the scene a series of beer commercials. It’s a vital necessity to turn the sound off during this scene! At one brief point Leo cups the young man’s balls. Otherwise they keep their hands on their own cocks and masturbate. The footballer cums on his jock and rubs it on Leo’s face.

The news seller now fantasizes about Leo. He imagines that Leo is his lover and comes home with champagne. We cut abruptly to Leo naked lying on his stomach on a bed. The news seller cock drives into his upturned ass. He fucks, pulls out, and cums on Leo’s back. Shift now to the bathroom. The seller is sucking Leo’s cock. Leo cums. The news vendor sucks the spunky dick.

As Leo continues his stroll he passes a gay gym & bathhouse. He longs to go inside but walks on. We however go inside to the gym where some twinks are working out and making out. It’s so-so sex best watched at 2x until Andy Fuller joins the duo to make it a threesome. Andy was a real cutie. He’s seen to best advantage today in the film GREENHORN. Just the thing if Brokeback Mountain has instilled in you the desire to see cowboys having sex. Andy sucks a cock and fucks one of the guys. There is another pair going at it too and the editing becomes totally spastic. I had little interest in the scene as it was. Now with all the confusion, crappy lighting, and piss-poor photography I have none.

Leo now passes a “raunchy” porn palace and, thinking no one will see him, enters. (This might be the very theatre where I saw Leo in Flashback.) A dancer is strutting his stuff. It’s none other than Andy. His dick jiggles in time to his vibrations. Patrons stroke his ass and lean in for a brief suck on the flapping dick.
After his set he gives the next dancer a note with instructions to “slip it to the blond in the front row”. This dancer—even though he’s somewhat hidden in the terrible lighting that is even worse than it was in the gym scene—is the hottest thing in the film. He’s a pretty good dancer too. I want to stay and watch but Leo hurries out to keep his rendezvous with Andy.

Andy now jacks off. Why if he’s going to meet Leo, he has to stop and jack off is incomprehensible. Not that I mind watching a cute kid like Andy beat his meat.
When Andy arrives at the rendezvous he’s told that Leo has been sent downstairs to the playroom. We see a totally naked Leo lying on a low platform. A stud wearing only a leather jacket sits down on Leo’s cock and rides, his dick poking Leo’s belly button. Andy is fed a cock. And the director and editor now have another spastic attack that’s even more out of control than the one in the gym. It’s all a confused mess. Andy never matches up with Leo which was the whole purpose of this. What an awful film!

If you want to see the Leo whom I loved and lusted after, avoid this incompetent mess and check him out in any of the following: GAMES, SPOKES, STYLE, THE SUMMER OF SCOTT NOLL (all from Falcon’s Jocks series). BLONDS DO IT BEST is another (check my review on that one) and there’s also LEO & LANCE. There’s also a compilation from Catalina THE BEST OF LEO FORD that features his work with William Higgins including Leo’s remarkable fellatio with humongously hung Rick Donovan. Leo swallows that mammoth cock all the way until his nose is resting in Rick’s curly pubes.
NEW YORK CITY PRO is for fans only who want to own the entire opus. Others should get one of the others listed above. Ah, if only they’d release J BRIAN’S FLASHBACK on DVD. That’s the one!