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| National General Pictures | Release Date: March 17, 1970 |
Starring:
Cliff Gorman, Frederick Combs, Keith Prentice, Kenneth Nelson, Laurence Luckinbill, Leonard Frey, Maud Adams, Peter White, Reuben Greene, Robert La Tourneaux
Summary:
Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual accidentally intrudes on a homosexual party.
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William Friedkin directs the adaptation of Matt Crowley's off-Broadway play about a group of gay men in Manhattan speaking increasingly frankly as a birthday party wears on. Sufficiently effective that you wonder what Friedkin was thinking with Cruising. [09 Nov 2008, p.N16]
Boys in the Band drags. But despite its often tedious postulations of homosexual case histories instead of realistic dialog, and the stagey posturing of the actors, the too literately faithful adaptation of Mart Crowley's off-Broadway swish-set piece has bitchy, back-biting humor, fascinating character studies, melodrama and, most of all, perverse interest.
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The message appears to be that the spirit of M-G-M in the 40s still lives in the hearts and jokes of homosexuals.
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