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Synopsis

A totally original film that intersperses footage with re-enactments that "prove" Rock Hudson's homosexuality was obvious in his film work.

3 Reasons To watch this film

Mark Rappaport is also the filmmaker behind The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender.
"One of the year's ten best. In a year that has seen the emergence of a substantial new gay cinema, Rappaport's effort remains the most audacious - an appropriation of Hudson's Hollywood films that reveals their hidden subtext." - Dave Kehr, Chicaco Tribune ('92)
"Impudently insightful in its wisdom. This film is a subversive delight - refracting a revisionist cast on the relationship between illusion and reality as embodied by perhaps the greatest myth-maker of the 20th century: the Hollywood movie machine." - Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter

Review

Often hilarious, highly original and utterly convincing, this revisionist interpretation of Rock Hudson's film career and life seeks to discover the "real" Hudson through his "reel" persona. Was this Hollywood hunk completely out of touch with his secreted sexuality, or did he throughout his career offer subtle -- or not so subtle -- hints at his homosexuality. Exploring this idea, Rappaport's insightful and unconventional biography cleverly dissects -- through freeze-frame, slo-mo and replays -- Hudson's films, seeking clues and overtly gay signals. filmmaker Mark Rappaport's premise is that Rock freely chose to perform in these gay suggestive films and that his sexuality was an open secret, the fan only had to read between the lines to see that their Rock was a total queer!

Also included on the DVD is the brilliant 1971 short film Blue Streak that features a group of naked men and women in a posed shot with a running litany of sexually oriented words floating across the screen. This juxtaposition forces us to examine our attitudes towards sexuality and the sex-negative society we find ourselves in.

Raymond Murray & Scott Cranin