List of Movies Mentioned in The Celluloid Closet

In The Closet: Gay and Lesbian Portrayals in Movies Before the Stonewall Riots (1969)
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Spring 2014

These are all the acknowledged references in The Celluloid Closet, plus as many of the
unacknowledged references as I could recognize from the short clips. Movies included in The
Celluloid Closet as negative illustrations, and as I remember have no other redeeming value, Ive
listed as (only homophobic).

Queen Christina, 1933

Morocco, 1930
The Killing of Sister George, 1968
Their First Mistake (Laurel and Hardy), 1932
Some Like It Hot, 1959
Victor Victoria, 1982
Bringing Up Baby, 1938
A Woman (Charlie Chaplin), 1915
Two Brothers Dancing (Edison Experimental Film), 1895
A Florida Enchantment, 1914
Algie, the Miner, 1912
The Soilers (Stan Laurel), 1923
Wander of the West, 1927
Behind the Screen (Charlie Chaplin), 1916

Our Betters, 1933

The Gay Divorcee, 1934
The Broadway Melody, 1929
Myrt and Marge, 1934
Call Her Savage, 1932
Tarzan and His Mate, 1934 (not LGBT)
Manslaughter, 1922
The Lost Weekend, 1945 (not LGBT)
Crossfire, 1947 (not LGBT)
Draculas Daughter, 1936
Rebecca, 1940
The Maltese Falcon, 1941
Rope, 1948
Caged, 1950
Young Man With a Horn, 1950
Tea and Sympathy, 1956
Rebel Without a Cause, 1955
Ben-Hur, 1959
Calamity Jane, 1953
Johnny Guitar, 1954
Red River, 1948
In a Lonely Place, 1950
Gilda, 1946
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1953

Lover Come Back, 1961

Pillow Talk, 1959
Spartacus, 1960
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1958
Suddenly, Last Summer, 1959
Victim, 1961
The Childrens Hour, 1962
Advise and Consent, 1962
Walk on the Wild Side, 1962
The Detective, 1968 (one of the most homophobic movies ever made)
The Fox, 1968
The Boys in the Band, 1970
Cabaret, 1972
Next Stop, Greenwich Village, 1976
Car Wash, 1976
Vanishing Point, 1971 (only homophobic)
Freebie and the Bean, 1974 (only homophobic)
Night Shift, 1982
Teen Wolf, 1985
Cruising, 1980
Windows, 1980 (only homophobic)
The Fan, 1981 (only homophobic)
Making Love, 1982
Wings, 1927

The Sergeant, 1968 (only homophobic)

A View From the Bridge, 1962
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, 1974 (only homophobic)
Sunday, Bloody Sunday, 1971
Personal Best, 1982
The Color Purple, 1985
Thelma and Louise, 1991
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969
The Hunger, 1983
Midnight Express, 1978
Fried Green Tomatoes, 1991
Philadelphia, 1993
Torch Song Trilogy, 1988
The Wedding Banquet, 1993
Swoon, 1992
Poison, 1991
Go Fish, 1994
The Hours and Times, 1992
Edward II, 1991
The Living End, 1992
The Crying Game, 1992
My Own Private Idaho, 1991
Silkwood, 1983
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, 1994

The Silence of the Lambs, 1991

Basic Instinct, 1992
Longtime Companion, 1990
My Beautiful Laundrette, 1985
Lianna, 1983
Boys on the Side, 1995
Parting Glances, 1986
Desert Hearts, 1985
La Cage aux Folles, 1978
Another Country, 1984