Upon the 75th anniversary of The Malte Faln's release, 's time to look at the gay myths ntaed the Hollywood perennial.
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MALTE FALN, THE (1941): GAY TEXT/SUBTEXT–LORRE’S CHARACTER (LGBTQ, GAY)
Hard, tough, thls, mascule -- the words often ed to scribe Hollywood's 1941 tective classic The Malte Faln are also terms found gay eroti to pict the male an. " The search for this "pricels token, " stolen by pirat and mored to be found the Barbary Coast, driv the film and Sam Spa's trigug unrworld enunters: They clu those wh a v femme fatale, Brigid O'Shghnsy (Mary Astor), and a host of equally lty, schemg gay men, nvergg upon that sexual meltg pot San Malte Faln is Hollywood's first gay masterpiece.
It's fascatg to see that the film dramatiz this as one of society's primal myths and do so the most unexpected way: The spenseful plot gradually reveals Spa's unmistakable homophobia.