Making the Boys
2011 • 90 minutes
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About this movie
Making the Boys is a 2010 film directed by Crayton Robey.
"A documentary about one of the most famous gay films of the 1960s. The Boys in the Band was originally an off-Broadway play about a gay birthday party, by a young Mart Crowley. Overnight success in 1968 led to the making of a faithful adaptation of the play by William Friedkin with the original cast in 1969. Featuring a wealth of archive footage and a fantastic range of interview subjects including a few surviving cast members, at the centre of the film is a very detailed portrait of Mart Crowley himself. Set designers, critics, playwrights and others recall the extraordinary impact of the play and Friedkin gives a powerful interview. Crowley gives an insight into the making of this ground-breaking work. No other dramatic work has ever quite so faithfully and savagely created a world of bitchy, insecure gay men as The Boys in the Band, nor so many memorable one-liners."
Quoting Brian Robinson from the 2011 London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival site.
"A documentary about one of the most famous gay films of the 1960s. The Boys in the Band was originally an off-Broadway play about a gay birthday party, by a young Mart Crowley. Overnight success in 1968 led to the making of a faithful adaptation of the play by William Friedkin with the original cast in 1969. Featuring a wealth of archive footage and a fantastic range of interview subjects including a few surviving cast members, at the centre of the film is a very detailed portrait of Mart Crowley himself. Set designers, critics, playwrights and others recall the extraordinary impact of the play and Friedkin gives a powerful interview. Crowley gives an insight into the making of this ground-breaking work. No other dramatic work has ever quite so faithfully and savagely created a world of bitchy, insecure gay men as The Boys in the Band, nor so many memorable one-liners."
Quoting Brian Robinson from the 2011 London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival site.