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Sat Dec 07, 4:15 pm at Vidiots Eagle Theater
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Is this the original "be gay do crimes" movie? Though heavily censored, this one-take Hitchcock thriller (from out screenwriter Arthur Laurents) is based off the real-life Leopold and Loeb case, where two gay students killed a boy just to see if they could get away with it.

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Alfred Hitchcock
1948
81 min
United States
English
Movie Summary: Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.
Queer Film LA Says: Is this the original "be gay do crimes" movie? Though heavily censored, this one-take Hitchcock thriller (from out screenwriter Arthur Laurents) is based off the real-life Leopold and Loeb case, where two gay students killed a boy just to see if they could get away with it.

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