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Staircase

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Although Charles (Rex Harrison) and Harry (Richard Burton) have been a couple for years, tension threatens their already dysfunctional relationship. The two hairdressers are excessively devoted to their mothers but increasingly snippy toward one another. Verbal barbs shoot in all directions without any sort of cease-fire in sight. The fact that Charles might be in trouble with the law for cross-dressing at a nightclub doesn't help matters much, either.

Critics Reviews

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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Stanley Donen's Staircase is an unpleasant exercise in bad taste -- in taste so bad, in fact, you wonder how Donen, who directed Singin' in the Rain and Bedazzled could have directed it. Rated: 1/4 Oct 30, 2004 Full Review Jesús Fernández Santos El Pais (Spain) Richard Burton commands and owns the film. [Full Review in Spanish] Jul 23, 2019 Full Review Nathan Rabin The Dissolve Harrison and Burton give the central relationship a lived-in quality and a gentleness that can be devastating in the film's rare but welcome quiet moments. Rated: 3/5 Sep 4, 2013 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: C Feb 28, 2013 Full Review Phil Hall Film Threat Positively appalling. Rated: 0/5 Oct 29, 2004 Full Review Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

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Audience Member Homophobic drivel. Terrible acting by the principals. Younger men could have played the parts more credibly. Harrison's and Burton's prancing and preening are probably the high point of their careers, if that says anything. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Has its moments. Has to be seen with the right frame of mind though. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member one of the first examples of mainstream queer cinema Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review s r Had to watch it for the cast. It was a sad film that squandered its potential. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member This is a terribly underrated gem-of-a-movie. I have been looking every where for it and finally was fortunate to watch it, I wasn't disappointed at all. It was heavily panned by the critics (for reasons beyond my comprehension!!!), personally I never care about whatever critics write, I watch and decide for myself. It is a brave film given its age to tackle homosexuality and the acting is brilliant. In fact anything Richard Burton is simply brilliant. I really appreciate this classic, it deserves much more recognition. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member SEE Burton and Harris like you have NEVER seen them! To put it mildly, this is a film totally overlooked. Despite its homosexual overtones, this is still something worth seeing. If anyone were to tell me Richard Harris and Richard Burton would be doing a movie being GAY blades, I would have said NEVER! But here it is, or so it appears. Watch yourself. 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The film, like the play, is about an aging gay couple who own a barber shop in the East End of London. One of them is a part-time actor about to go on trial for propositioning a police officer. The action takes place over the course of one night as they discuss their loving but often volatile past together and possible future without each other. SEE the trailer here: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10004689-staircase/trailers/10899435/ SEE the entire movie HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iJqPsl8K9Q REVIEWS: 1 Wow, ground breaking stuff and how awesome for Burton and Harrison to take on such roles. I'm half way through this film and think it's bloody brilliant. The acting is superb. I never even knew this film existed.. Thank you so much for posting. 2 Absolutely brave, superb performances by Harrison and Burton from 1969. Wonderful script, wonderfully skilled portrayals of all the characters by all the actors concerned. Extremely clever exchanges between Harrison and Burton. More impressed than I have ever been by these two actors whom I have long appreciated. 3 A little strange but enjoyable. It was not stereotyped to me and in the classic movies there was more talk and less action usually. That makes it great. Burton's father told Richard after he told him he was going to be an actor that he thought all actors were "latent homesexuals" according to his biography. Well maybe he wanted to prove something to his father when he did this movie. You had empathy for his character but you knew he was not that way! [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/34/Poster_of_the_movie_Staircase.jpg/220px-Poster_of_the_movie_Staircase.jpg[/img] Notes: 1 Rarely seen on television, the film was broadcast by Turner Classic Movies during its June 2007 tribute to gay cinema. Noting this broadcast, a month later film critic Armond White called the film "a rare Hollywood movie to depict gay experience with wisdom, humor and warmth", and "a lost treasure". 2 Staircase is not available on DVD at the present time. 3 It was panned by most critics, including Roger Ebert, who gave it one star in his review and called it "an unpleasant exercise in bad taste . . . [Donen] gives us no warmth, humor or even the dregs of understanding. He exploits the improbable team of Rex Harrison and Richard Burton as a sideshow attraction." 4 The film was a commercial failure that lost most of its investment. 5 Reportedly Elizabeth Taylor was shooting 1970's The Only Game in Town at the same time as this film was in production. While that film is set in Las Vegas, Taylor demanded that director George Stevens shoot in France so she could be close to her husband. This caused the budget of The Only Game in Town to grow higher than most large-scale, high-profile films that Fox was producing at the time. [img]http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ838aaEe6PMUzl3JGieh62bkDuOVTuFw5kaxtQ9rYOaSNoApDMYg[/img] Directed by Stanley Donen Produced by Stanley Donen Written by Charles Dyer Starring Rex Harrison Richard Burton Music by Dudley Moore Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation Release date(s) 1969 Running time 96 min Country France Budget $6,370,000 [img]http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQoPdEHQ8xxWuoJrcJTFPB3EBmj2Hy5TWwblx07VjpOfaCmVHnKNw[/img] Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Although Charles (Rex Harrison) and Harry (Richard Burton) have been a couple for years, tension threatens their already dysfunctional relationship. The two hairdressers are excessively devoted to their mothers but increasingly snippy toward one another. Verbal barbs shoot in all directions without any sort of cease-fire in sight. The fact that Charles might be in trouble with the law for cross-dressing at a nightclub doesn't help matters much, either.
Director
Stanley Donen
Producer
Stanley Donen
Screenwriter
Charles Dyer
Production Co
Twentieth Century Fox
Rating
R
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (DVD)
Dec 6, 2011
Runtime
1h 40m