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HOW A LRA DERN MOVIE LED TO THIS REAL-LIFE GAY DIVORCE STORY IS ALMOST TOO WILD TO BELIEVE
The Motn Picture Productn Co, also known as the Hays Co after censor/stick--the-mud Will Hays, regulated film ntent for nearly 40 years, rtrictg, among other thgs, pictns of homosexualy. Filmmakers still managed to get around the Co, but gay characters were cloaked nuendo, leadg to some necsary Premger’s Lra turns the film noir on s ear while still weavg one of the most engagg and stylish mysteri to ever grace the silver screen. A vic queen wh an arsenal of $10 putdowns at the ready, Lycker is another a le of Hays-era villao homosexuals who end up ad the fal ame, but his motive for murr is his love for a ’s a kd of love.
Webb’s homosexualy was well known Hollywood or by anyone wh an eye or an ear. ” Robert Wagner nsired Webb a mentor and noted his tobgraphy, “Clifton Webb was gay, of urse, but he never ma a pass at me, not that he would have. Still, Lycker’s blatant homosexualy don’t distract om the believabily of his love for/obssn wh Lra.
But Waldo Lycker is dangero bee he’s brilliant, nnected and sophistited; and he’s brilliant, nnected and sophistited, at least part, bee he’s gay. As such, he has to die, but not before givg one of the greatt gay characters cema.