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Killing of Sister George, The 

Year: 1968
Country: UK
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Beryl Reid, Susannah York, Coral Brown
Synopsis: An aging actress faces the elimination of her character and job on a BBC soap opera in one of the earliest portrayals of a serious lesbian relationship.
Quick review: Most gay films from the late 1950s through the 1960s are not kind to gay people. The gay characters are usually monsters who must be killed to save others (Strangers on a Train, Suddenly Last Summer, The Children's Hour) or they are self-loathing people who recognize they are seriouslly ill (The Detective, Advise & Consent). Very few films from this time period treat gays well (Victim being the best). You have to keep reminding yourself of that when watching a gay film from this era. Otherwise you'll get pissed and throw a brick through that new plasma-screen television you just bought. Instead, look at what positives there might be. Until this point, most lesbian films were more about getting straight men excited than actually dealing with lesbian issues. Not this film. Sister George is a character of a popular BBC soap opera played by June, a fast-approaching senior citizen status actress. She has been living for years with the child-like lover, Charlie. Sister George is so bland on the show that the show's producers have decided it is time for her to go. So they're going to kill her off. June is hardly sympathetic. She's a nasty woman with a fierce temper who treats her lover with malice and contempt. And you figure that out before she decides to molest two virgins. The only thing that matches June's temper is her jealousy. It's hard to watch the way she behaves as her world crumbles around her. In addition to losing her job, she risks losing Charlie. A female television executive is swooping in and hoping to save Charlie from Sister George. Few of the 1960s gay films have happy endings, and this doesn't either. But it was a breakthrough film because it showed an actual lesbian reltionship with all its flaws a year before the Stonewall riots.
 

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