107: Gayer Than The Cast of Bewitched

Lions, Towers & Shields

Previously, on Lions, Towers & Shields, we’ve talked about one western. It was an unusual one, and included themes a modern audience tends to read as gay. Well guess what? We’re doing it again. Desert Fury puts Lizbeth Scott, Bert Lancaster and John Hodiak into a love triangle. Film noir expert Eddie Muller says this is the gayest movie ever produced in classic Hollywood. But is it? Please enjoy the lush color, and the Miklos Rosza score. And look, there’s Mary Astor and Kristine Miller, too. So we have a very noir cast getting together to ride a present-day version of the range.

Desert Fury

Shelly Brisbin with Randy Dotinga, Nathan Alderman and Micheline Maynard

Referenced Works

Desert Fury

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The Movie: review/commentary on a single classic film

• Desert Fury trailer

  • Internet Archiver version currently unavailable
  • On disc: Blu-ray

The Self-Referential LTS

• 60 Celebrate The Teresa Wright-Aissance
• 53 The Ambiguously Gay Duo
• 9 A Numerical Scale Of Trash Men
• 94 Mourning Culottes
• 100 The Smell Of Murder
• 39 Hitchcock’s Two-Hour Tour
• 15 I Know You’re A Sexist Creep, But Run!
• 52 If Douglas Sirk Made Friday The 13Th

Next time, we’ll watch

• I Want To Live trailer

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