The Secret Gay Love Affair Behind Alfred Hitchcock's Rope

I love this video, it was so informative and interesting. Thank you for sharing this video with us.

Thanx very nice told.history.🎉🎉🎉

They did a great independent film about Leopold and Loeb called "Swoon".
Was a great film about a horrible situation.

Such an interesting commentary. Will be looking for more ❤

I look forward to your documentaries but this one seemed more touching and personal. Beautifully done. Thank you for helping to save and document our history. Well done my dear boy.

Just had to laugh at the title, thanks.😂😂😂

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Even as a kid I wondered how a guy being strangled was able to scream. Now I know it was a deliberate gaffe.

ROPE is one of my favorite Hitchcock films! Great informative video. Thanks, Matt!

How did rational thinking people believe that a psychiatrist can change your sexuality? I don’t believe it’s a mental issue. It’s a nature and DNA issue. You are born as what you are.

Leopold and Loeb

In the list of Hitchcock's early gay characters, you must consider Mrs Danvers in Rebecca and Rebecca herself.

omg i love Rope 1948 and your video is so informative and well-presented that it provides a lot of intriguing backstory for this film !! absolutely love it and thanks for making this video !!!

Great video. This is one of my favorite movies. The tension doesn't let up for one second with the dead body in the room just waiting to be discovered. As a (mostly) straight man, the gay subtext went completely under my radar the first time I saw it. I don't know how I missed it. John Dall practically exudes sexual energy.

Great review, excellent !

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I'm so appalled that the US used to sterilize gay men! More people need to know this happened. I just now found out about this 😠 😡

thank you for not only discussing the behind the scenes stuff about rope but also what happened to grander and laurents later in their lives. this video genuinely made me tear up! queer history is so beautiful

Almost no mention was made of Hitchcock's first American film, "Rebecca". It was hinted at that the housekeeper, or lady's maid, Mrs. Danvers, might have had an intimate relationship with her employer, Rebecca DeWinter. A great book, by Daphne Du Maurier, and a great movie, starring Sir Laurence Olivier, and Joan Fontaine. Nobody played Rebecca, as she was never seen, having already died when the film began.

How times have changed; thankfully so. A late lesbian mate of mine remarked a few years ago, "the love that dare not speak its' name" will one day become "the love that won't shut up!". How correct she is. Can one imagine the superb, much loved, "Red, White and Royal Blue" being released, say, a decade ago?

It's bizarre logic to sterilize men that didn't have sex with women. What was the point?

Actual love Alfred Hitchcock and rope is one of our all-time favorite movies I cannot believe that it was a flop

Thanks for Producing this Wonderful Video, I have viewed it several times..

So, at the end of every video why do I feel like a John hearing, "If you wanna kiss on the mouth, that's $50 extra."

The reason that the Hayes code had the capacity to be so ineffective is that bigots lack imagination. If they're looking for homosexuality, they'll only see their caricaturized and fearful version of it.

Such a touching tribute. Thank You ❤

This was exceptionally done. Thank you.

“Let’s have dinner and talk about the gay subtext of Rope” must have been a bomb pick up line in 50s Hollywood

To think years ago gay men could be imprisoned but men who kill and torture innocent children can get off with it depending on who the Judge is social services should be held accountable you can go to prison for smacking your child not right I agree but you can kill and torture a child and you never see them taking these poor children inti care something not right

Rope is one of my all time favorite films. I grew up in San Francisco and had many gay friends and yet I was naive in never realizing the gay aspect of this film. It wouldn't have made a difference to me either way as I still love this film. Funny, I never suspected the gay aspect of it. Love the way Matt Baume tells the story......he's articulate, animated, and obviously very intelligent as I was riveted throughout the entire video. Fascinating and brilliant. Thank you.

😆"turned into an invitation to spend the night"...code for..."they FUCKED!"

Farley Granger was a handsome young thing 😮

I’ve had a number of homosexual family members throughout the past century. I often wonder how they lived through it all, what their day to day was like.

A great great great aunt of mine was married to the sherif of Hershey, both of them being homosexual. They were lifelong friends, never had children, and avoided suspicion by telling people that she was infertile.

My great uncle was in the marines in WWII. He was from a small town in Kentucky, and my mother suspects that he joined the marines after having been found out. He fought in some of the most gruesome battles in the pacific. When he returned, he moved up to New York, where he spent the rest of his days there, especially Fire Island. He was the cover model for a small book series called Cabot Cain. I never met him, and he died a few years back.

My great uncle Tommy is still alive and well. He is one of 7 children of my father’s Irish Catholic family. He has a partner, and I occasionally see them at gatherings. I don’t know much else about them, since I’m not particularly close to my dad’s side of the family.

And then most recently, myself, though I’m not planning on coming out to my extended family any time soon.

It’s me. I’m the killer homosexual, and I’m on the loose.

We all agree that looks exactly like Jason Sudeikis, right?

yeah but it was cool cause , them bein gay had nothing to do with the plot . current hollywood should REALLY take notes . another reason why hitcock was ahead of his time …

As well as a ceremonial altar, the chest no doubt represented Saturn's cube.

I wonder if by mentioning checking it was a coded language for something darker. There was also something sacrificial about it with the candle sticks - like a black mass. No wonder he could nt stomach the chicken. Only the sociopath could. Champagne was the equivalent of wine.

Did the original play have a deeper meaning where metaphysically homosexuality, rather than producing life, might produce death?

The one thing I see about those old days even though gays had no freedom was that when they found someone they kept with them. Sometimes I wish I was born during those times than I wouldn't be single.

The first few minutes I watched this I immediately knew they were gay. They made some formidable villains because of their intellect. Very interesting film and the protagonist had to have the wits to defeat them. I wish more films today emphasized intellect over brawn especially female protagonists.

Thank you for this video. i love this film and it is great to hear such an accurate history of this masterpiece.

Rope was based on Leopold and Loeb! Two wealthy Chicagoans who killed a young boy, Bobby Franks. Leopold and Loeb were gay.

Why was this movie, along with Vertigo, The Trouble with Harry, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Rear Window, taken out of circulation? They didn't all have gay subtexts from what I remember. Also, you made it sound like all of the movies for which Hitchcock is best remembered were Warner Bros. releases, but several of his movies from the early sixties were from Universal.

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I've always thought of Rope as a morality play, an examination of Nazi ideology pre World War II.

To each his own I reckon.