England,
1964, 108 min
Shown in 1965
CREDITS
- dir
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Sidney J. Furie
- prod
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Raymond Stross
- scr
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Gillian Freeman
- cam
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George Gibbs
- editor
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Reginald Beck
- mus
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Bill McGuffie
- cast
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Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell, Dudley Sutton, Gladys Henson, Avice Landon, Betty Marsden
- source
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R. Lee Platt
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COMMENTS
Rita Tushingham in person.
OTHER
An adaptation of Eliot George's bestseller, this film accentuates the propensity of contemporary British artists for dramatization of their social problems, whether economic or sociological. The Leather Boys is essentially the drama of a thwarted marriage between two young people who are unaware of their emotional needs beyond conjugal law. The quality of daring is most omnipresent in the film’s attention to boys and their attitudes toward girls, and each other. This is extremely unusual in British and American cinema where homosexual relationships are taboo unless they are misrepresented, disguised or out of touch with reality. This thoroughly objective film is directed and acted with integrity and style and, without sensationalism, it comes sufficiently alive to make one think.
—Albert Johnson
FACTOID #222
The SFIFF has honored some of cinema’s best lensers with tributes, including James Wong Howe (1974), Gabriel Figueroa (1984), Nestor Alemendros (1986), Ernest Dickerson (1991) and John Alton (1994). Cinematographer Haskell Wexler received a tribute as a featured filmmaker in the New Directors series, when he appeared with his directorial debut, Medium Cool.
