I'll be buying those classics on DVD. I have slight guilt cos of the VHS floating around back then, but it was pre R18 days and I was young. I'm sure he'd understand
Wouldn't want to bump into him at a convention, but I can picture him sitting outside The Spread Eagle on Oxford Street, sipping ale. Hope he'd let me buy him a drink.
Actually I only liked the early work of Ben Dover, it was obvious he was really inspired by Buttman but then his work went downhill pretty fast and it looked like he was trying to be more like Seymore Butt which is not a good thing.
I remember he shot a great scene with Nici Sterling, one of his best scene ever.
Lindsay is actually quite friendly (unless you make illegal copies of his movies, then he gets furious!) but nowadays he's getting old, he's always back in his hotelroom when the party starts. Last year at the BAFIA awards show he had already gone to bed when they wanted to give him another award.
Inspired by Buttman, hell, you should see the scene where he goes to visit Buttman in California and they end up doing the girl together! Great scene.
And the problem with some of his later work is not what he shot IMO, but the sloppy editing some of the distributors he sold it too did on it, butcher jobs.
I've only heard of his work, so please excuse me for my ignorance. I have a couple of questions.
Does he mostly use British girls? If so, is there an porn industry to speak of in Britain? If yes, can it compete with the porn capitals of Europe, Budapest and Prague?
As i heard it Buttman actually told Ben Dover (just Lindsay Honey then) to just copy him, even to say he was his English cousin. This was when John had been using him as a driver and organise locations in England and was leaving to go back the the states. His scene with Goergette Neale washing cars is one of the best set-up in porn history.