Die Harten und die Zarten

Originaltitel: The Boys in the Band

1970
18
2 Std.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,6/10

6123

IHRE BEWERTUNG

trailer wiedergeben2:41

4 Videos

32 Fotos

Dark Comedy Drama

Wenn ein Heterosexueller versehentlich zu einer homosexuellen Party eingeladen wird, werden die Gemüter aufgewühlt und das wahre Selbst offenbart.Wenn ein Heterosexueller versehentlich zu einer homosexuellen Party eingeladen wird, werden die Gemüter aufgewühlt und das wahre Selbst offenbart.Wenn ein Heterosexueller versehentlich zu einer homosexuellen Party eingeladen wird, werden die Gemüter aufgewühlt und das wahre Selbst offenbart.

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,6/10

6123

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 4 Nominierungen insgesamt

Videos4

Trailer 2:41

Trailer

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Wissenswertes
Stars all of the same actors from the original play. Producer/author Mart Crowley insisted that the entire original cast of the off-Broadway production be used in the film.

Patzer
The telephone in the living room is a 1A2 model for multiple lines with a hold function. Michael has at least 2 lines as noted in the action. The line cord to the phone is a standard cord for single-line phones. The 1A2 requires a larger line cord with more pairs of wires to operate both lines, lights on the phone and the hold function.

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Michael: You're stoned and you're late. You were supposed to arrive at this location at eight thirty dash nine o'clock.
Harold: What I am, Michael, is a 32 year-old, ugly, pock marked Jew fairy, and if it takes me a little while to pull myself together, and if I smoke a little grass before I get up the nerve to show my face to the world, it's nobody's god-damned business but my own. And how are you this evening?

Alternative Versionen
TV prints are 11 minutes shorter than the theatrical release and are redubbed and re-edited to remove all objectionable dialogue.

Verbindungen
Featured in Sneak Previews: Changing Attitude Toward Homosexuality in Movies (1982)

Soundtracks
Anything Goes
Written by Cole Porter (uncredited)
Performed by Harpers Bizarre

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Kenneth Nelson Is Superb

This is the film version based on the 1968 Off-Broadway play and with that production's original cast of actors. And they are excellent.

The plot revolves around a birthday party among a small group of gay friends and the uninvited guest who may or may not be gay.

Kenneth Nelson stars as Michael, a 40-ish gay man who is probably a lapsed Catholic and feels a sense of guilt for being gay, based on his religious upbringing. He apparently lives well but is much in debt.

Among the guests are Donald (Frederick Combs) a friend who's seeing a "shrink," Larry (Keith Prentice) who's in a relationship with Hank (Laurence Luckinbill) but who is not faithful to Hank who is divorcing from his wife. There's also Emory (Cliff Gorman) a flaming queen, and Bernard (Reuben Greene) a quiet Black man.

The birthday boy is Harold (Leonard Frey), a acerbic aging gay with bad skin and an imperious manner. His birthday gift is a gay hustler (Robert La Tourneaux) who dresses as a cowboy and who's not very bright.

The men drink heavily as they trade insults amid gossip and music and witty barbs. Into this mix comes Michael's old college roommate Alan (Peter White) who desperately wants to see Michael. But he's shocked by what he sees and is apparently unaware that Michael is gay.

The party quickly devolves into a series of arguments and even an act of violence. Very drunk, Michael insists they play a telephone game where each man has to call the person he truly loves and tell them so. Secrets are exposed.

Kenneth Nelson is superb as the bitter Michael, a man who's probably never found real love and is adrift in his life. Equally superb are Leonard Frey as Harold and Cliff Gorman as Emory. These are towering film performances. Every else is quite good.

Kenneth Nelson was basically known as a musical theater star. Indeed he played "the boy" in the original production of "The Fantasticks" along with Rita Gardner as "the girl" and Jerry Orbach as El Gallo. Ironically, he won a Golden Globe nomination for this film as "best newcomer."

This film is a time capsule of what it was like to be gay long before gay rights and even predates Stonewall and the AIDS epidemic. It's a trenchant look at a period of time. And this is a superb production and much better than the flimsy 2020 film remake.