Dot (Rita Tushingham) and Reggie (Colin Campbell) marry too young and realize it too late. Reggie starts to be good friends with Pete (Dudley Sutton) who just happens to be gay. And Dot wants Reggie back...
Technically this isn't really a gay film. Pete is gay but it's only suggested here and there and not made clear until the very end. And, despite the title, this doesn't deal with the heavy leather gay set. It's about Reggie trying to deal with his life--figuring out what he wants. Is it Dot...or Pete? SPOILER!!!!! The ending pretty much makes it clear that it's neither. He walks away from both but I never got the feeling it was because Pete was gay--I think it was because Reggie just wasn't ready for a relationship with anyone END SPOILER!!!!! The film is ahead of its time for having a sympathetic gay character and it IS an interesting character study (of Reggie) shot in stark black and white. Good acting too. Good luck trying to see this...I caught it totally by accident one night on a local PBS station.
Technically this isn't really a gay film. Pete is gay but it's only suggested here and there and not made clear until the very end. And, despite the title, this doesn't deal with the heavy leather gay set. It's about Reggie trying to deal with his life--figuring out what he wants. Is it Dot...or Pete? SPOILER!!!!! The ending pretty much makes it clear that it's neither. He walks away from both but I never got the feeling it was because Pete was gay--I think it was because Reggie just wasn't ready for a relationship with anyone END SPOILER!!!!! The film is ahead of its time for having a sympathetic gay character and it IS an interesting character study (of Reggie) shot in stark black and white. Good acting too. Good luck trying to see this...I caught it totally by accident one night on a local PBS station.