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Well I watched a film this afternoon - The Black Rose with Tyrone Power.(1950) and bloody hell. I mean I know I have slash goggles on half the time, but STILL. This was unbelievably slashy, I wish I'd videoed it - Orson Welles played one of Kubla Khan's warlords who Tyrone Power signed up with and at one point TP had to leave and head off to China and there was a MOST affectionate leave taking by Orson Welles - he said "I shall kill ten of them for every hair on your head if you are killed. I hate to see you go, I miss few men, but I shall miss you." Tyrone was being all bluff and jolly about it and I was half expecting him to punch Orson on the arm at one point, while Orson was CLEARLY having a UST moment.

Then at the end, Orson sends a letter to Tyrone and says "I wish you were back here."

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There's also quite a lot of homoeroticsim between Tyrone and Jack Hawkins who he has a Great Friendship with throughout the entire film - there is a "Flossie", but you very much get the feeling that she's a last minute insert because someone read the script and thought "eek! Far too Gay!"