| Rock Hudson's Home Movies | |
| Director: | Mark Rappaport |
| Producer: | Coleen Fitzgibbon Mark Rappaport |
| Cinematography: | Mark Daniels |
| Editing: | Mark Rappaport |
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| Runtime: | 63 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
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]
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]
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]