Oct 17, 2024
Sometimes I wonder if I'm over-queering these old movies but then I see Arthur Lorencz with his head on Nathaniel Billings's leg and Nathaniel is unmarried but knows what a powder puff is. And THEN I see Cornelius Leyden doing whatever the fuck it is he does with Peters that CERTAINLY has no heterosexual explanation. And then the entirety of the fucking Femm family comes crashing in headlong with not one, not two, but three, count 'em, THREE queer-coded siblings plus an alcoholic gay butler. And don't get me started on Arsenic and Old Lace, The Black Cat, You'll Find Out, or any of the others.
#queer-coded cinema#old hollywood#the boogie man will get you#nathaniel billings#arthur lorencz#cornelius leyden#mr. peters#mask of dimitrios (1944)#the old dark house#femm family#arsenic and old lace#the black cat 1934#you'll find out (1940)#peter lorre#boris karloff#bela lugosi#horace femm#rebecca femm#saul femm#morgan olddarkhouse#gay#queer#bisexual#they're all GAY I TELL YOU#OR AT THE VERY LEAST IN QUEER PLATONIC RELATIONSHIPS