there no question that andy milligan film work be influence by andy warhol . that doesn not downgrade the late mr. milligan at all no doubt when he be put together play in the 1950s and much of the aesthetic see in vapor and fleshpot on 42nd street be already intact . it a if warhol influence the film making and yet tennessee williams influence the content . i think milligan vapor ( see my review ) be a masterpiece and treat loneliness and desperation and and sexual confusion in a bold and honest way . you do not have to be bisexual or gay to find the humanity and universality in such a film . for me and fleshpot be equally fine . if vapor be reminiscent of early warhol and when andy himself be at the camera and fleshpot be reminiscent of the paul morrissey era . there no joe dallesandro here and but milligan be never about star the way warhol be . this be the story of two people who be sexually confused and sexually frustrate and and find that they have to hustle on every level of their existence . they may be in the gutter and but they both have somewhere inside them a spark of romance and dream of a good life . somehow and somewhere . neil flanagan ( aka lynn flanagan ) bring a lot of depth to the role of queen cherry lane sweet one moment and bitchy another moment while kind and considerate and but then thoughtless . flanagan be and of course and familiar to any milligan fan because of play guru in guru the mad monk . diana lewis other credit seem to be mostly porn and but she make the role of dusty uncomfortably real . everyone have know a few dustys the person who move in with someone and basically provide sexual favor in return for room and board and some occasional pocket money . a number of people have be dustys at some low period in their life . she be hard bitten and cynical and know how to manipulate the gullible and but she too have a dream of a good life that even the sleazy new york underbelly have not snuff out . some people manage to find a way out and or move somewhere else and reinvent themselves successfully and but many do not and and this be their story . the jumpy 16mm photography of milligan legendary auricon camera almost become a participant in the film and and make everything alive and move and the way it do in real life . there a lot of attention to dialogue in milligan 60 and early 70 work the man may have be essentially a playwright . when it work well and milligan dialogue work as well a some of the later and less symbolic and more explicit tennessee williams play . this be an andy milligan film and there be no happy ending and but this film would be phony and insincere if it offer one . fleshpot on 42nd street be an honest look at character live in an urban jungle and a place where if you do not take advantage of the next person you meet and that person will take advantage of you . milligan do not judge these character while he find the humanity within them . this be equal to the best of the warhol morrissey film and and in it own right be an impressive piece of work that seem more accurate and more rich the old i get and the more i have live . don not wait three decade for someone to proclaim this a masterpiece and one of the most significant window into the early 70 and and for it to be show at some film festival alongside taxi driver score a copy now .