All About Eve (1950) Queer Film A+
Bette Davis in her greatest role with some of the best lines ever written. Both Addison and Eve are gay and he blackmails her.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 1, 2022 | 50s, A+, Amazon, Apple TV+, Directors (Hitchcock and others), Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Bette Davis in her greatest role with some of the best lines ever written. Both Addison and Eve are gay and he blackmails her.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 1, 2022 | 50s, Amazon, Apple TV+, C-, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
“Hype the New Fish”. Innocent Eleanor Parker spends time in a women’s prison. With Hope Emerson and Agnes Moorehead.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 1, 2022 | 50s, Amazon, Apple TV+, B, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming
Lauren Bacall is Kirk Douglas’ young man with a horn’s society wife who is also a closeted lesbian. Bacall is very good in a risque role.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Feb 3, 2026 | 50s, A-, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Streaming, YouTube
Bogart is superb playing a queer-coded male lead. He’s emotionally volatile, unable to be in a stable heterosexual relationship, deeply suspicious of intimacy and terrified of being “found out”.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 10, 2022 | 50s, A+, Amazon, Apple TV+, Directors (Hitchcock and others), Film Music, Film Music | LA Music Scene, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
The best play to film adaptation of all-time, with two of the greatest performances: Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois and Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 1, 2022 | 50s, A-, Amazon, Apple TV+, Directors (Hitchcock and others), Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Hitchcock reverses himself here, having gay actor Farley Granger play the straight character and straight actor Robert Walker play the gay character.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 10, 2022 | 50s, Amazon, Apple TV+, B+, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
It’s Howard Hawks again, this time adapting the Jule Stein/Leo Robin Broadway smash “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”. With Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 15, 2022 | 50s, A-, Film Noir, Ratings: Movies and Television
The buildup to Monroe’s superstardom started here. The magnificent widescreen technicolor cinematography is by Joseph MacDonald.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Feb 7, 2024 | 50s, Amazon, Apple TV+, B, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
The Best Queer Song in the History of Cinema: Day’s spectacular delivery of the Sammy Fain-Paul Francis Webster masterpiece “Secret Love.”
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Jan 30, 2026 | 50s, A-, Amazon, Apple TV+, Criterion Collection, Film Reviews, HBOMAX, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming
The film blends neorealist observation with a nostalgic tone, supported by a lush Nino Rota score. Like Fellini’s later autobiographical work, it captures a vivid sense of time and place.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Oct 6, 2022 | 50s, A+, Amazon, Apple TV+, Directors (Hitchcock and others), Film Reviews, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Stewart, Kelly, and Ritter are all magnificent. Kelly, looking radiant, gets to deliver one of the Big Screen’s all-time sexy lines.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 10, 2022 | 50s, Amazon, Apple TV+, B, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
A Western with two female leads is that rarest of cinematic jewels and, under Nicholas Ray’s direction, both Crawford and McCambridge play to the gallery.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 10, 2022 | 50s, A+, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Music, Film Music | LA Music Scene, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Wood, Dean and Mineo form a nuclear family under the shadow of Griffith Park Observatory in Nicholas Ray’s masterpiece “Rebel Without a Cause.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Jan 16, 2024 | 50s, Amazon, Apple TV+, B-, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
“The Big Combo” features a gay couple (played by Earl Holliman and Lee Van Cleef) whose chosen profession also adds to their fascination and their sexiness.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Jan 30, 2026 | 50s, A-, Criterion Collection, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming
By late 1956, it had become the highest-grossing French film released in the United States. It is also one of the most successful queer films of all time since, although queer coded, something is clearly going on between Christina and Nicole!
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 10, 2022 | 50s, A-, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television
.”Written on the Wind”: The film’s central tenet is that Kyle (Robert Stack) and his ruthless sister Marylee (Dorothy Malone) lust after the same man.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 10, 2022 | 50s, Amazon, Apple TV+, B+, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Nancy Kelly is ON 100% of the time straddling the twin minefields of camp and drama yet managing to accomplish both simultaneously.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Jun 5, 2024 | 50s, A-, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
“Tea and Sympathy” has aged well. What could not be said under the Hayes code lends it beauty and delicacy, especially in Deborah’s sublime performance.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | May 15, 2021 | 50s, B+, Film Reviews, Ratings: Movies and Television
Unlike their American counterparts, French critics, including Godard and Truffaut, adored Jean Seberg in “Bonjour Tristesse.”
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 10, 2022 | 50s, A+, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Music, Film Music | LA Music Scene, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
“Funny Face“, the 1957 musical romantic comedy directed by Stanley Donen, boasts Audrey Hepburn’s most charming screen performance.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Jan 30, 2026 | 50s, Amazon, Apple TV+, B+, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Streaming, YouTube
Gazzara is electrifying in the lead, exuding a raw, unsettling sensuality. It remains one of the great curiosities of his career that only in his very next film, Anatomy of a Murder (1959), did he manage to recapture this level of charisma.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Oct 6, 2022 | 50s, A+, Amazon, Apple TV+, Directors (Hitchcock and others), Film Music, Film Music | LA Music Scene, Film Reviews, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
“Vertigo” is anchored by the unforgettable performances of Stewart and Novak, Hitchcock’s masterful direction and Bernard Herrmann’s haunting score.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s, A, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Yes, that is Mercedes McCambridge as an unnamed lesbian gang leader getting her kicks while watching Janet Leigh getting roughed up in “A Touch of Evil.”
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s, Amazon, Apple TV+, B+, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Richard Brooks’ respectable adaptation of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” opens with Paul Newman mourning the suicide of his best friend (read Lover), Skipper.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s, Amazon, Apple TV+, B-, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Director Morton DaCosta directs “Auntie Mame” as if he were still in the theatre. He did better on his penultimate visit to Hollywood (“The Music Man”).
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s, Amazon, Apple TV+, C-, Directors (Hitchcock and others), Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
The movie is risible, its few pleasures come from Hepburn’s regal (but very nasty) mother who will do anything to protect her son’s memory.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s, A+, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
“Some Like It Hot” was only the second mainstream Hollywood movie not to be submitted to the Hays Office. Worth seeing just for Lemmon’s performance alone.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s, Amazon, Apple TV+, B, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Hudson’s characters has a gay alter ego named “Rex” and supporting actors Tony Randall and Nick Allen are constantly brushing off the gay ceiling.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s, Amazon, Apple TV+, B, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
If you believe Gore Vidal it was all because of a lover’s spat. Wyler and Boyd were in on the ruse, and Boyd played his scenes that way, but Heston was not.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Browne | Dec 1, 2025 | 50s, Amazon, Apple TV+, B-, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
“Compulsion.” Leopold and Loeb were lovers, and both Richard Murphy’s screenplay and Richard Fleischer’s direction lend the movie a queer subtext, evident in both dialogue and body language.
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