In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.
A few months ago I started watching my DVR recording of Rollerball. I recorded the 1975 film when it aired one late night on TCM. I got a few minutes in and was going to stop watching when there was a shower scene. The scene was quick, just a bit of nudity from some extra's, but the hairy chests of stars James Caan and John Beck lured me into watching a bit longer.
I'm not familiar with much of John Beck's work except for seeing him on Dallas when I used to watch the repeats on the old Nashville Network in the late 90's. I'd seen some of the prime time soap when I was kid when my parents used to watch, but wasn't until it's airing on TNN that got to see the entire series.
I didn't really take notice of John Beck during his time on the series, in fact, I think I remember finding him rather unappealing. I was mostly into younger guys then, and his hairy chest did little for me at the time. Now that I'm a bit older, I have gained an appreciation for certain men I overlooked when I was in my teens and twenties. Watching Rollerball, for the first time, I found both Beck and Caan incredibly sexy.
Although John's in another shower in the Dallas scene below, it was one of the show's many 'fake' scenes filmed to throw audiences off. Although it was before everyone had a computer, the tabloids often spoiled story lines, so they often shot fake scenes to leak to them and throw them off. Beck stripped off and jumped in the shower to throw off viewers that it would be Bobby returning to the show in a shower scene.
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