With a near-great performance by Burt Lancaster as the title character who “swims his way home” through his “river” of backyard swimming pools… Based on the short story by John Cheever. Adapted to the screen by Eleanor Perry and directed by her husband, Frank Perry.
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“Dorian,” serial killer Gill’s (Rod Steiger) gay hairdresser persona, says that being a homo does not make you a terrible person, as he fondles the neck of Miss Belle Poppie.
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Boasting a dreadful script by Abby – Judgment at Nuremberg – Mann, the mediocre direction by Gordon Douglas puts the kibosh on everything. Sinatra gives the role as much integrity as the material allows.
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Although The Boston Strangler belongs to that liminal grey area of queer cinema, it is, nevertheless, unmistakably saturated with the gay slurs, stereotypes, and panic that Hollywood deployed whenever police procedurals dipped into the “demimonde.” In fact, Edward Anhalt’s screenplay—astonishingly, from the Oscar‑winning writer of Becket—is so casually homophobic it becomes a kind of time capsule of contempt.
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Beryl Reid is marvelous as “George”. That’s not her name. It’s the name of the character she plays in a beloved long-running BBC series.
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