Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a rewatch.Director Tom Kalin sent the film world clutching for its pearls with this erotic crime thriller, based on the real-life case of the gay murderers Leopold and Loeb.
Alfred Hitchcock made the case famous in his film Rope, though for our money, Swoon allows more honest and disturbing insight into the minds of the pair.In short, teens Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb became tabloid celebrities after they murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago back in 1924.
The pair seemed to enjoy the killing, almost as an erotic overture to their relationship. Unlike Rope which only intimates the sexual relationship between the.