DIRECTOR: Robert Aldrich
BOTTOM LINE: FIRST LOOK INSIDE A LESBIAN BAR
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. She is in a lesbian relationship with the much younger Childie (Susannah York), and she thinks that she is about to get canned from the show. Enter Carol Browne as a BBC executive with the hots for Childie, and George cannot get a break.
Robert Aldrich does an excellent job here, just like he did with Bette and Joan in “Baby Jane.” There is a gratuitous and embarrassing seduction scene that should have been left on the cutting-room floor. However, the relationship between George and Childie seems precisely right, and Browne is also very believable as the uber-predatory suit who holds all the cards. “The Killing of Sister George” follows in the footsteps of “Advice and Consent” six years before, only this time, it’s a lesbian bar.
STREAMING: YouTube
https://thebrownees.net/sixty-five-queer-films-made-under-the-hays-code-1934-1967
https://thebrownees.net/sixty-five-queer-films-made-under-the-hays-code-1934-1967-table-summary
https://thebrownees.net/fifty-two-post-hays-code-queer-films-released-in-the-decade-1967-1976
