Phillip (Farley Granger)
and
Brandon (John Dall)
Rope
Based on real-life killers Leopold and Loeb, Brandon and Phillip are two superficial, society-climbing apparent lovers who have nothing better to do than to kill a schoolmate, stuff him in a trunk, and then serve his family dinner over his cooling body (didn't the Queer Eye guys do an episode on that?). Allows for some incredibly loaded dialogue that managed to sneak the sexual nature of the relationship past the censors, but otherwise a curious portrait of gay men that links their sexuality to wanton murderousness. It’s also worth noting that director Alfred Hitchcock deliberately cast closeted gay actors as villains in several of his films – an apparent attempt to mine their dual nature for their performance?
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