Great lor film noir wh strong gay subtext. Defely remend watchg. It’s currently available to stream on the Crern Channel.
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HAVE A GAY OLD TIME: DERT FURY
” TCM’s Eddie Mueller has scribed DESERT FURY as “the gayt movie ever produced Hollywood’s goln era. A Technilor film noir wh overt homosexual overton, Dert Fury is a fascatg and wildly entertag Goln Age anomaly that teems wh tensn and flirts wh mp.
First and foremost, bisexual and homosexual unrcurrents permeate the script and fe wh a shockg spics that fli the face of the perd’s rigid nservatism. It’s all subtext, of urse, but let’s jt say I wasn’t at all surprised when I learned that noir expert and TCM host Eddie Muller labeled Dert Fury “the gayt movie ever produced Hollywood’s goln era. If that isn’t enough evince of the two men’s homosexual bond, Eddie practilly spells out when he tells Pla how Johnny picked him up – I mean, met him – years ago: “It was the tomat off Tim Square about two o’clock the morng on a Saturday.
Dert Fury may have gay overton, but ’s anythg but effete… save for the Technilor. Like most noirs, ’s a rough-and-tumble, hard-boiled tale, and the last place we’d ever expect to fd a ht of homosexualy, Yet that’s exactly what mak the movie so fascatg.