The married Farr, ridden by guilt that he refused to take the youth’s frantic telephone calls, risks his marriage and his career by striking back. Jack is in custody because he stole from his employer in order to pay off blackmailers who have an incriminating photograph of the two. Young Jack Barrett (Peter McEnery) hangs himself in his jail cell rather than risk revealing his emotional relationship with a closeted London barrister, Melville Farr (Dirk Bogarde). Plus, there are over 100 pornographic films that I also eliminated, though some are of surprising interest, from Greek Lightning, 1973, and The American Adventures of Surelick Holmes, 1975, through The Roommate, 1993, to Focus/Refocus, 2009. In addition to these, I could also consider, though I decided not to, any number of television and video serials, such as episodes from Dalziel and Pascoe, 1996-2002, and the powerful miniseries The State Within, 2006. The new edition of my book The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (Scarecrow Press, November 2012) lists some 130 titles for me to choose from, 1948-2011, this number including only films with some kind of a gay investigator. Actually, my problem was narrowing down the enormous number of possibilities. When friends, including mystery writers, learned that I was compiling my list of the ten best gay film mysteries, several expressed surprise that I could find that many.
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