It’s Not a Crime, It’s a SCORE

Model Mike Radcliffe was on his knees getting hungry for anyone wanting to stick their dick into his mouth. This college professor and somewhat of a “Midnight Cowboy” would be the first to tell anyone that he was cock hungry. He wore it as a badge of honor, and when he starred in the movie The Slutty Professor it couldn’t be any closer to the actual truth. Mike came to us in 1999 and I’m not exactly sure, but I think he “cold-called” us and I just so happened to pick up the phone at the Catalina offices. He only had very minimal experience in front of the camera in a movie for BG Enterprises in 1997 called Private Punishments 7. He is a big guy with a “Herculean” body and a personality that is completely unintimidating.

When we met and took pictures, I knew right away that I could get him in front of the camera within a very short time. I told him about a movie that I was currently shooting called Score, starring Ray Harley and about eighteen other stars of the era. With the big budget movies, I was always afraid to take a risk on what I considered a video virgin. However, I had a role - still un-cast - for someone to play a cop who, while patrolling a local cruising area, throws himself into the action. With his build and stature, I instantly knew that I wanted him in that part. When I told him about it, he got very excited and I think I remember him saying that he wanted to be in the movie so badly that he would even do it for free. Although his mentioning that intrigued the “producer” in me, there was no way I was going to let that happen. Since it was only an oral scene, I felt that hiring him was a risk I was willing to take. He wanted to get into the business so badly that I wouldn’t have had the heart to turn him down.

We shot the park scene on the large property of a rural estate in the Laurel Canyon, above Hollywood. The cruisers in the park were seasoned stars Andrew Lennox, Tuck Johnson, Leo Masters and Scott Davis. The cop, Mike Radcliffe, jacked off while watching Andrew, Leo and Tuck working each other’s dicks with their mouths. Unexpectedly, Scott Davis walked up behind the horned up officer and, before I could even say “action,” Radcliffe was down on his knees sucking his dick like a mad man. I had to yell cut and school him on the fact that we actually needed to be rolling the cameras to shoot the transition and he had to wait until I called “action” - he couldn’t just “jump on it!” We had a good laugh about it.

Once we covered the oral, he politely asked me if it would be okay if Scott Davis shot his load all over his face. I said, “Oh, would you like that?” He told me he would, and that he would really love it if all the guys in the scene did, as well. I hadn’t really thought of that scenario when planning out the scene, but suddenly I realized that having this cop totally give into the moment would really make this scene shine. “Okay, but you can’t be a hungry guzzler, you have to keep your mouth shut when they blow their load on you.” He said, “Whatever you say, I’m just excited about having them all shoot on my face.”

Who was this hungry cum receptacle I just hired? The crew was like, “Is this that guy’s first movie?” His naivety was actually kind of cute when he came up to me at one point to say that it was okay if I wanted to have the guys fuck him. I explained that it was an oral scene, but he didn’t really get it and replied, “That’s okay, I don’t mind, I would really like them to fuck me.” Once I told him that Catalina was only paying everyone to do oral, but not oral and anal, he finally understood.

As expected, he worked every last one of them right up to their explosive loads, which naturally landed all over his face. For some reason, Andrew Lennox shot a load from hell, and as you might imagine I had to keep repeating to Mike, “Close your mouth!” Lennox’s load was going on and on and on and I felt like I was getting laryngitis repeating to “Hungry Hilda” to shut her fucking mouth. It was actually pretty impressive to see this new model give 110% and still ask for more! It was after shooting this scene and when I got through paying everyone that I got an idea that came to me out of the blue, obviously from what we just shot. I went to the still photographer to tell him about the idea I had and he was up for it. I then walked over to Mike Radcliffe who, believe it or not, was helping the crew pack up the equipment and load it into the van. I asked him if he would like to make another $100 by posing for some still photos that we would use for an ad to promote the movie. He said yes, so we stopped loading the van and set up for it.

I envisioned an ad for the gay porn magazines that might tease the imagination and be a little jarring at the same time. At home I had (and still have) the original movie posters for Mark of the Devil and Last House on the Left. These two 1970’s posters were made for shock value, piqued your imagination and demanded your attention. The Mark of the Devil movie poster shows a girl with her tongue being pulled out. I obviously couldn’t emulate that one, even though I wanted to pull out Mike Radcliffe’s tongue every time it popped out of his mouth looking to lick up a drop or two during the cum shots. The Last House on the Left poster, however, had had some potential. A girl slouched over, against a tree, obviously distraught from being put through the mill by a bunch of guys in the park. The poster featured a warning line that said, “To Avoid Fainting, Keep Repeating: It’s Only A Movie … Only A Movie” - written over and over.

Having that image in my mind, I propped Mike Radcliffe, in full cop uniform, up against a tree and we dripped soft soap all over his uniform and chest to appear like loads of cum. In hindsight, I should have slouched him over in the photo as well, looking exhausted like he had just been worked over. It would have worked better with my tag line that would say something about “sucking everybody off.” But instead, we had to make it a wee bit more sexy. I left the set a happy camper, knowing this would be a cool ad that would make the viewer’s imagination run wild and hopefully hook them into purchasing the movie. We went back and forth at the offices and settled on the slogan. A few weeks later, the art department had the ad completed and I thought it looked great.

Unfortunately, not one magazine would accept the ad with the fake cum all over him - not one of them! I was very disappointed, and we had to re-design the ad with a photograph in his clean, “un-seasoned” uniform. I’d say that Mike Radcliffe’s performance in Score opened the doors for him to have a pretty damned good career shooting fourteen more movies somewhat exclusively for Catalina Video from 1999 and 2002. Some movies include: Walk on the Wild Side (1999), Day Trade (1999), Escape to Echo Beach (2000), Voyager (2000), The Slutty Professor (2000) and Ride ‘Em Cowboy (2002). The Slutty Professor was, in fact, written by Mike Radcliffe, as he based the movie on actual sexual “experimental research” he did with his real-life students. Once he finished his tenure with Catalina, he went on to work for All Worlds, Oh Man! Studios and Pacific Sun, and performed in what I believe was his last movie for Bacchus Releasing in 2011. I hear that he is well and living in New York City; I wish him the best and loved the period of time that we worked together.

Bio of Josh Eliot:

At the age of 25 in 1987, Josh Eliot was hired by Catalina Video by John Travis (Brentwood Video) and Scott Masters (Nova Video). Travis trained Eliot on his style of videography and mentored him on the art of directing. Josh directed his first movie, Runaways, in 1987. By 2009 when Josh parted ways with Catalina Video, he'd produced and directed hundreds of features and won numerous awards for Best Screenplay, Videography, Editing, and Directing. He was entered into the GayVN Hall of fame in 2002.