Rock Hudson's Home Movies

Rock Hudson's Home Movies is a 1992 documentary by Mark Rappaport.[1] It shows clips from Rock Hudson's films that could be interpreted as gay entendres.[2][3]

Summary

Eric Farr speaks to the camera as if speaking Rock Hudson's words from a posthumous diary. Film clips from more than 30 Hudson films illustrate ways in which his sexual orientation played out on screen. First there are tenuous and unresolved relationships with women, then clips of Rock with men, cruising and circling. Second, there is pedagogical eros: Hudson with older men. Rock is seen with his male sidekicks, often Tony Randall.[4][5][6]

Next, the film looks in depth at comedies of sexual embarrassment and innuendo: films in which Hudson sometimes plays two characters, "macho Rock and homo Rock." Lastly, the film reflects on Hudson's death from AIDS.[7]

References
  1. TV Guide
  2. Rotten Tomatoes
  3. Trailer on REVOIRVIDEO YouTube channel
  4. Village Voice
  5. WorldCat.org
  6. Time Out London
  7. 'Rock Hudson's Hone Movies' Hits Criterion: Seeing the Hidden In the Evident-The Film Stage


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