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. )"Osr Wil was, of urse, gay. And Hch’s ep tert Wil’s novel would suggt, at the very least, a fascatn wh homosexualy – om the perspective of a bicur fact, to me, that one paragraph of Ken’s ncisely scrib a lot of Hchck's psychology – his exprsed bisexualy, his acknowledgment of the universaly of perversn (acrdg to the then-standard view that homosexualy is a perversn) and his view on `killg the thg you love' that I feel is more accurately lled `ializatn as a form of hatred.
Based on some of his jok (and other behavrs) that went too far, some have nclud that Hch was a cel and sadistic person who acted out this way bee of his supposedly reprsed homosexualy.
GAY CODG HCHCK FILMS
Yet, the hard evince that supports allegatns of "reprsed homosexualy" or of real-life sadistic behavr is meagre.
Homosexualy. While Ripley‘s homosexual unrton are certaly more blatant, there’s somethg fely there Bno’s tert Guy — part of may be social climbg, but part of may very well be sexual. The subtext isn’t an accint; the film’s screenwrer Authur Lrents was gay, as were both Granger and Dall.