In typil Hchck-ian fashn, the "Master of Spense" often employed his films subtle referenc to gay culture, fyg nservative attus of the late '50s.
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WHEN HCHCK WENT GAY: ‘STRANGERS ON A TRA’ AND ‘ROPE’
Aled Hchck: Reprsed Homosexual? Aled Hchck Bgrapher Donald Spoto has (along wh others) put forward a theory that Ken Mogg lls the "Hchck-as-reprsed-homosexual le. " The ia is that, g a handful of anecdot om Hch’s 80-year life, one uld nclu that he was a reprsed homosexual.
Here's a portn of Ken's first-rate overview of Hch’s life a Sens of Cema article:"To gay actor/screenwrer Rodney Ackland (Number Seventeen) [Hch] nfid: "You know, if I hadn't met Alma at the right time, I uld have bee a poof.
GAY CODG HCHCK FILMS
)"Osr Wil was, of urse, gay.