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Category: 15
All Genres: Documentary
Release Year: 1992
Country: USA
Runtime: 63
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Mark Rappaport
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

They weren't born to be wild. It just turned out that way.

Writing by: Mark Rappaport - writer

Produced by: Mark Rappaport - producer

Cast: Eric Farr - Narrator
Marc Christian - Himself
Gary Cooper - (archive footage)
Doris Day - (archive footage)
James Dean - (archive footage)
Kirk Douglas - (archive footage)
Phyllis Gates - Herself (archive footage)
Rock Hudson - Himself (archive footage)
Burl Ives - (archive footage)
Paula Prentiss - Abigail Page (archive footage)
Tony Randall - (archive footage)

Music: Pray for Rain
Official Website: Visit Website

Plot Outline: Documentary about the career and eventual death from AIDS of actor Rock Hudson.
Plot: Eric Farr speaks to the camera as if speaking Rock Hudson's words from a posthumous diary. Film clips from more than 30 Hudson films illustrate ways in which his sexual orientation played out on screen. First we see tenuous and unresolved relationships with women, then clips of Rock with men, cruising and circling. Next comes pedagogical Eros: Hudson with older men. We see Rock with his sidekicks, often Tony Randall. We look in depth at comedies of sexual embarrassment and innuendo: films in which Hudson sometimes plays two characters, "macho Rock and homo Rock." He's masculine yet vulnerable, a hunk who needs taking care of. Last come cinematic reflections on death.

Movie Quotes: Casper: FREE FOOD FOR THE POOR!

Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The scenes on the Blackfoot River were actually shot on the Madison and other rivers around the Bozeman and Livingston areas. The "Big Blackfoot" has already become too polluted and populated to provide the image the scene required.

Goofs: We know about 9 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: Paul's collar during the restaurant scene.

Trivia: There are 9 entries in the trivia list - like these:
'William Hurt' wanted to play the role of Paul Maclean and once went fishing with Norman Maclean in Montana. When Hurt asked if he'd fished well enough to portray his brother, Maclean replied: "Well, Bill, you're a pretty good fisherman but not good enough to be my brother."
Trout used in the movie were pond-raised in Montana and were kept in a specially aerated and cooled tank truck until their big moment in front of the cameras. No hooks were used, and no blood was drawn. A line was tied to each fish's lower jaw under the careful observance of the Montana Humane Society.
None of the actors had ever fly fished before making the movie.