An absorbing and eye-opening look at the way homosexuality has been portrayed by Hollywood. With a vivid montage of clips from more than 100 films and funny and sad interviews with film-makers, actors and screenwriters including Tony Curtis, Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Quentin Crisp and Gore Vidal. Highlights include Laurel & Hardy in bed together, and Jay Presson Allen, who adapted Cabaret for the screen, tallking about how Hollywood got around the restrictions of the Hays Censorship Code. 'The guys that ran the code weren't rocket scientists. They missed a lot of stuff and if a director was subtle enough and clever enough, he got around it.' Another priceless clip has Montgomery Clift and John Ireland flirting outrageously as two gunslingers who lovingly compare each other's guns in the Western Red River. It gets a bit repetitive but is still worth a look.


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