06 Teddy Boy and Sailor, TEDS (1959 Apr)

Royale Catalogue Thumbnail for 'TEDS'

Royale's 'TEDS' photo set features a fight between a Sailor and a Teddy Boy
who attacks him with a cosh. It which ends up with the mugger getting caned.

Ian MacAllister stars as the Teddy Boy and Stanley Free* as the Sailor.
Stan Free looks particularly good in tight bell-bottoms and shows some ability to act.
(*see note on IDs below)

Go direct to 'Teddy Boy and Sailor' 

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Background Information

TEDS was published in Apr 1959 (in Royale Catalogue, List 7)

There were 24 pictures in the original set, the mitchmen Royale Archive currently has 14 of them, a mixture of good and relatively poor quality but reasonably balanced between the spanking element and the opening confrontation and fight. The majority of the good quality images come from the British Photographers Originals Collection (Ref 1). 

*Royale's catalogue description gives the sailor the name Barry Cutts but I've not come across that name anywhere else in their output and it's obviously the man named as Stanley Free in other Royale beefcake pictures (see example below), he also appears under that name in another Royale photo storyette.

To add to the confusion, a spread featuring the story appeared in 'Man Alive' No 7 (Oct 59) and named Stan Free as the sailor but called the Teddy Boy 'Ted Richards', another name I've not come across anywhere else in Royale records.

Stanley Free by Royale Studio

Above, Stanley Free in Trim Studio Quarterly 26. Nice scrunched up abs effect! 

He's actually sitting on Royale's, trademark, half-roundel prop, but the cropping disguises it.

Go to Stan Free's career page (link pending).

Read 'Teddy Boy and Sailor'

Replaces Original article published at mitchmen blog in 2010