A Day with the Boys

Artsy nonsense rescued by Criterion from obscurity. Gulager, whom I remember for unpleasant macho roles, was, according to those who knew him, quite the opposite. Perhaps after a few more shorts or directing episodes of all the TV series he worked on, he would have moved on from experimentation to ambitious works, but apparently he never finished another film besides this not-very-good short.

Thirty years later, Brian Stirner (the main actor of "Overlord") directed the feature "A Kind of Hush", with a similar but more explicit storyline, based on "Getting Even", a semi-autobiographical story by actor Richard Johnson about the revenge of adolescents who were sexually abused in their childhood.