Rock Hudson's Home Movies

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Rock Hudson's Home Movies
Directed byMark Rappaport
Written byMark Rappaport
Produced byColeen Fitzgibbon
Mark Rappaport
CinematographyMark Daniels
Edited byMark Rappaport
Running time
63 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Rock Hudson's Home Movies is a 1992 documentary by Mark Rappaport. [1] It shows clips from Rock Hudson's films that could be interpreted as gay entendres. [2] [3]

Contents

Summary

Eric Farr speaks to the camera as if speaking Rock Hudson's words from a posthumous diary. Film clips from more than 30 Hudson films illustrate ways in which his sexual orientation played out on screen. [4] [5] [6] First there are tenuous and unresolved relationships with women, then clips of Rock with men, cruising and circling. Second, there is pedagogical eros: Hudson with older men. Rock is seen with his male sidekicks, often Tony Randall. [7] [8] [9]

Analysis

Next, the film looks in depth at comedies of sexual embarrassment and innuendo: films in which Hudson sometimes plays two characters, "macho Rock and homo Rock." Lastly, the film reflects on Hudson's death from AIDS. [10]

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