Song of the Loon
Sawyer Productions (1970)
Drama, Erotica, Experimental/Avant-Garde/Art House, Queer Themes/Interest, Romance, Western
In Collection
#1466
5*
Seen ItYes
(10/22/2018 Home)
IMDB   6.1
79 mins USA / English
DVD 
Brad Della Valle Tsi-Nokha
John Drake Luke
Jon Evans Montgomery
Brad Fredericks Mr. Calvin
Richard Hoyt Indian Guru
John Iverson Cyrus Wheelwright
John Kalfas Singing Heron
Lucky Manning Bear-Who-Dreams
Morgan Royce Ephraim MacIver
Michael Traxon Tiasholah
Martin Valez Acomas
Robert Vilardi Plum-of-the-Night
Lancer Ward John
Director/Choreographer
Andrew Herbert
Scott Hanson
Producer Richard Amory
Monroe Beehler
Writer/Composer Richard Amory
Cinematography Robert Maxwell
Joe Tiffenbach

The journey of 19th-century frontiersman Ephraim MacIver and the adventures, stories, and homosexual relationships he had with other men in the American wilderness.
Edition Details
Distributor Reelwildcinema
No. of Discs/Tapes 1
References
IMDb Voters <500

Notes
This film of nearly a half-century ago is one of the earliest attempts at making a gay positive film· While the writing and acting is stilted, the production quality somewhat crude, and the ethos very much reflects the 70's -- psychedelic mushrooms, Indian medicine man (the guru) -- it is an important film in the developing queer liberation story · I found the music especially annoying; it drowned out the plot, and was not well coordinated with the action· My dvd appears to have been copied direct from film (no tape), has odd stop motion pauses, perhaps when film reels were changed? No native Americans in this film! No scruffy mountain men either; all clean shaven anglos.