Director: William Friedkin DOP: Arthur J. Ornitz Screenplay: Mart Crowley, podľa vlastnej divadelnej hry Cast: Kenneth Nelson, Leonard Frey, Cliff Gorman, Laurence Luckinbill, Frederick Combs, Maud Adams Rights: Park Circus

Eight friends organize a birthday party. They’re ordinary folks, mostly living completely ordinary lives, not standing out in any particular way – except their sexual orientation. When they’re together, they can be themselves, and so the gathering starts in an air of laid-back fun. As the evening progresses, however, things take a turn towards the unexpected. First among the “mistakes” made by Michael, the host, is to invite Alan, a straight friend of his. In his second slip-up, the strapping young Tex, a gift for birthday boy Harold, arrives too soon, ruining what was supposed to be a joke about a “midnight cowboy”. The mood grows tense, eventually culminating in a showing of true colours the likes of which no one expected… Highly provocative upon its release, William Friedkin’s cinematic adaptation of a Mart Crowley play was one of the first films to openly depict gay themes and feature a nearly all-gay cast.