While Anthony Perkins' character is clenching his paranoid fists in disgust.....young Edward Albert's cry-baby character succumbs to mass hysteria.....

Shades of Elmer Gantry, a film adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel.... with similar themes, made five years before........In this manic scene from the largely unseen and underappreciated Film, THE FOOL KILLER, we are shown how impressionable youths....and ignorant, guilt-ridden provencials....are seduced and traduced  by dogmatic religion-obsessed propagandists......'same as it ever was'......terrified of their God's eternal punishment for straying from the strict road of seemingly eternal re-establishments of consensual conformity....   All of the Characters in this Servando Gonzalez movie are emotional 'basket cases', due to their childhood conditioning.....and the twelve year old orphan, George Mellish...played by Albert, who...I must declare "should have won an oscar for his performance....as well as the actor, Henry Hull, whom I admired in another forgotten film, made 3 decades earlier, WEREWOLF OF PARIS".     I could go on and on and on about this Film, although its contemporary critics seemed to have ignored it until recently, when it was resurrected in a new print, and shown on TCM......How about another round of applause for Anthony Perkins, singing 'Moonlight Swim' or 'If You can find me, I'm here'.....on the shirt tales of Tab Hunter's 'Young Love'.    Isn't it time to 'bury the hatchet', Movie Viewers?   You may keep yours, Mona Malnorowski.  You're not very likely to arouse repressed sexuality......

Gun Crazy (1950) Heist Scene..........."B" Movie Firearms-Cloaked Homo-Obsessiveness

I watched the 1950 Noir film, gender-benderish GUN CRAZY ......A hit or miss flick about gun obsession and its shaping of the lives of a pair of "B' movie outlaw societal parasites.....screenplay by Dalton Trumbo.....and starring Peggy Cummins and John Dall, in yet another 'closeted' performance......(I think I'll re-watch ROPE, which featured Dall as a gay murderer, with his 'partner', Farley Granger).......After ROPE 'outed' both Dall and Granger......GUN CRAZY attempted to heterosexualize Dall, as SENSO had done for Granger.......65 years later, films are far less ambiguous......In the interim, BONNIE AND CLYDE offered some even more closeted ambiguity to the cinematic mainstream.

ENVISIONING THE LARGE-BRIMMED STRAW HATS WORN BY THE FEMALE CAST OF FELLINI'S 1965 NEO-SURREALIST FILM "JULIET AND THE SPIRITS"....

 

SANDRA MILO, WITH A FEW ADDED POUNDS,  MAY HAVE WORN MY PIERO GHERARDI-INSPIRED HIPPIE GETUP, A COUPLE OF DECADES LATER.....AFTER SHE FOUND A COUPLE OF HITS OF BLOTTER ACID, LEFT IN HER BRA BY FEDERICO FELLINI, WHO WAS MOTIVATED TO CREATE HIS TRIPPIEST FILM.....