''Rock Hudson's Home Movies'' is a 1992 documentary by

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. It shows clips from

Rock Hudson Rock Hudson (born Roy Harold Scherer Jr.; November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985) was an American actor. One of the most popular movie stars of his time, he had a screen career spanning more than three decades. A prominent heartthrob in the Golde ...

's films that could be interpreted as

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entendres.

Summary

Eric Farr speaks to the camera as if speaking

'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. First there are tenuous and unresolved relationships with women, then clips of Rock with men, cruising and circling. Second, there is pedagogical

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: Hudson with older men. Rock is seen with his male sidekicks, often

Tony Randall Anthony Leonard Randall (born Aryeh Leonard Rosenberg; February 26, 1920 – May 17, 2004) was an American actor. He is best known for portraying the role of Felix Unger in a television adaptation of the 1965 play ''The Odd Couple'' by Neil Sim ...

Analysis

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

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1992 films Documentary films about LGBT film Documentary films about actors 1992 documentary films 1992 LGBT-related films Documentary films about films Collage film 1990s English-language films 1990s American films American LGBT-related documentary films

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