The Boys in the Band

The Boys in the Band1970

Stars: Kenneth Nelson, Frederick Combs, Cliff Gorman, Laurence Luckinbill
Genre: Drama
Rating: R
Runtime: 118 minutes

The Boys in the Band is a 1970 American drama film directed by William Friedkin. The screenplay by Mart Crowley is based on his Off-Broadway play The Boys in the Band. It is among the first major American motion pictures to revolve around gay charac… more »



Michael:
Oh Harold, he's beautiful.

Harold:
Yeah, beautiful. He has unnatural, natural beauty. Not that that means anything.

Michael:
It doesn't mean everything.

Harold:
Keep telling yourself that, as your hair drops out in handfuls.

Michael:
Faggots are worse than women about their age. They think their lives are over at thirty. Physical beauty is not all that goddamn important.

Harold:
Course not. How could it be? It's only in the eye of the beholder.

Michael:
And it's only skin deep.

Harold:
Only skin deep. It's transitory, too. It's terribly transitory. Oh yes. It's too bad about this poor boy's face. It's tragic. He's absolutely cursed. How could his beauty ever compare with my soul? And although I've never seen my soul, I understand from my mother's Rabbi that it's a knock-out. I, however, cannot seem to locate it for a gander. And if I could, I'd sell it in a flash, for some skin-deep, transitory, meaningless beauty.

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