Rick Silverman (Scott Paulin), complete with a kiss.
NBC is to be credited for showcasing a faithful adaptation of the award-winning novel by Jonathan Kellerman (1985), including a cameo appearance by Milo’s domestic partner, Dr. Moreover, it is Milo who saves Alex in the chilling climax to this taut thriller. But Alex has been brought into the case by gay LAPD detective Milo Sturgis (Richard Masur), and, throughout, Milo, ironically enough, provides psychic stability for the volatilely obsessed Alex. A heterosexual child psychologist, Alex Delaware (Ted Danson), takes down a ring of rich pedophiles who find their victims in a supposed safe house that they have endowed for troubled children. § Screenplay by Gerard Soeteman, based on Gerard Reve’s untranslated novel (1981), directed by Paul Verhoeven. Religious, sexual, funereal, and nature imagery fill the screen with the hallucinatory quality of some fairy tale, pushing the viewer to ponder the meaning of mystery in all its senses.
Who will be her fourth victim, Gerard or Herman? Beginning with Gerard’s imaginary murder of his boyfriend at home, nothing is certain in this brilliant film, however perhaps Gerard has invented most, if not all, of the plot.
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Through a series of discoveries, Gerard becomes convinced that Christine has murdered three husbands. Dutch novelist Gerard Reve (Jeroen Krabbé) allows himself to be seduced by Christine Halsslag (Renée Soutendijk), whom he meets at a reading/lecture, in order to seduce, in turn, her lover Herman (Thom Hoffman), with whom he has become infatuated after a chance meeting. Verenigde Nederlandsche Filmcompagnie, March 1983. IMDb rating: 7.7.ĭe Vierde Man (The Fourth Man). John Colstream has published a history of the making of the film for the British Film Institute Classics series (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). William Drummond wrote a novelization, in which the barrister’s name is changed to Melville Carr (Corgi, 1961). § Screenplay by Janet Green and John McCormick, directed by Basil Dearden.
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One must watch through historical lens (among other things, it was the first time filmgoers heard the word “homosexual” in a movie house), but largely because of Bogarde, it still packs a punch. The script, however, was written in deliberate support of the Wolfenden report and now suffers from its propagandistic mission. In orthodox fashion, clues are fairly presented to viewers, red herrings occur, and the chief perpetrator is something of a surprise. The married Farr, ridden by guilt that he refused to take the youth’s frantic telephone calls, risks his marriage and his career by striking back. Jack is in custody because he stole from his employer in order to pay off blackmailers who have an incriminating photograph of the two. Young Jack Barrett (Peter McEnery) hangs himself in his jail cell rather than risk revealing his emotional relationship with a closeted London barrister, Melville Farr (Dirk Bogarde). Plus, there are over 100 pornographic films that I also eliminated, though some are of surprising interest, from Greek Lightning, 1973, and The American Adventures of Surelick Holmes, 1975, through The Roommate, 1993, to Focus/Refocus, 2009. In addition to these, I could also consider, though I decided not to, any number of television and video serials, such as episodes from Dalziel and Pascoe, 1996-2002, and the powerful miniseries The State Within, 2006. The new edition of my book The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (Scarecrow Press, November 2012) lists some 130 titles for me to choose from, 1948-2011, this number including only films with some kind of a gay investigator. Actually, my problem was narrowing down the enormous number of possibilities. When friends, including mystery writers, learned that I was compiling my list of the ten best gay film mysteries, several expressed surprise that I could find that many.