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10 Jul 2011
This creepy 1965 thriller knocked me off my socks when I caught a rare NYC screening of it a few years back. It's incredibly ahead of its time: Its exploration of underside of the swinging 60s, replete with amazing location shots of a very seedy-looking Times Square presage later films like Taxi Driver and Hardcore. And with one overtly gay character -- Elaine Stritch (!) as an aggressive dyke nightclub owner who puts the make on poor little lady DJ (!) Juliet Prowse -- and one who is, shall we say, sexually ambiguous -- Sal Mineo, at his most gorgeous, as a possibly psycho busboy who also has a yen for the bored Juliet, it went farther than Hollywood would dare to tread down the lavender path for decades to come.
Here's Sal's torso in a title sequence which must have been jaw-droppingly explicit for the time:
And here he is again in a weight-room/pool sequence which feels like the opening to a gay porn flick right up until he starts hitting up on Juliet:
Posted by Angelo
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