staircase (1969)

Prompting a renewed haste to my recovery was the agony of watching 1969's Staircase on Sunday afternoon. What Turner Classic Movies deems "a fascinating mess," is really just a tepid, soulless melodrama starring two completely unsympathetic characters. There is nothing, NOTHING, to like about this film. From the overlong drag show opening to the prissy, self-congratulatory nature of the film itself, I could find zero reasons to be remotely interested in this movie. Richard Burton and Rex Harrison play an aging gay couple, but both are such ridiculous caricatures that it doesn't matter. This is as ugly and superficial as scriptwriting gets.

Boo.