Making the Boys

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 subject... More

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.

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