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“I think the best erotica that was available was the annual Sears Roebuck catalog. He didn’t have much influence to draw upon. And I would stop and say, ‘Do you want a ride?’ and they said ‘No, I’m working.’ Well, it did take me a bit of time to figure out what they meant…but I did figure it out, and I said, ‘To hell with San Francisco, you’ll just make movies here in L.A.’ And that’s what I did.” “I was driving down Santa Monica Boulevard, and I saw all of these guys standing from corner to corner it looked like they were hitching rides. He made it to Los Angeles, where he was going to spend the night. Higgins drove west, deciding to settle in San Francisco and start making movies with his $5,000. I packed up my old red pickup truck and took off in about 42 minutes.” “I had bought a book that had strongly implied that porno is legal nowadays, so I put notices up on the bulletin boards in several of the gay bars in Houston looking for models, and one day I got a call saying that the Texas Rangers were on their way to my house and would be there in 45 minutes. So, I decided, ‘Well, the movies are so bad and Falcon won’t sell me their 8-millimeter films, I’ll just go out and I’ll make gay porn on my own.’”īy that time, Higgins was living in Houston. I thought, ‘Well, these films are really horrible-certainly I can do better!’ I would also say that I was about 34 years old, and I had been a customer of Falcon in Dallas, and one day I received a letter from Falcon saying that no future orders would be shipped to Texas, Tennessee or Florida…and that really made me angry. He would buy a ticket for the straight side, then make his way through the restroom to an aisle on the other side connecting it to the gay theater.
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Higgins had been “very much in the closet” all of his life, but in Texas he found gay porno at a twin theater in Dallas (the Kit Kat) that showed straight adult material on one side and gay on the other. “One of the recessions came along in the 1970s, and the first thing the housewives did was stop going to hobby shops, and it put me out of business. “The last job I had before I got into adult was operating some hobby shops in Texas,” shares the director from his home in Prague. It all started 40 years ago in an unlikely place. He has directed the likes of Jack Wrangler, Kip Noll, Rick Donovan, John Davenport, Mike Henson, Jon King, Jeff Quinn, Jan Dvorak and yes, Peter North (né Matt Ramsay) in one of his early gay porn appearances. Starting in 1978, William Higgins brought us a treasure chest of iconic works including The Boys of Venice, The Class of '84, These Bases Are Loaded, The Best Little Warehouse in L.A., Sailor in the Wild, Cousins, The Pizza Boy, Big Guns and dozens more during a dynamic decade in the United States. And he’s still going strong as he celebrates 40 years in the business, having built two successful careers in two different continents during two different eras. A major influence on modern industry filmmakers.