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Although the two men’s sexuality is never made explicit in the film, the relationship between Granger’s and Dall’s characters has a strong homoerotic subtext, skillfully engineered by Hitchcock and his actors through staging, art direction, and nuance. ‘It was just a thing assumed,’ Granger said many years later of his character’s homosexuality. ‘Either you got it or you didn’t.’

As the film’s screenwriter, Arthur Laurents, who was Farley Granger’s lover at the time, explained, ‘There wasn’t a word of dialogue that said [the two men] were lovers or homosexual, but there wasn’t a scene between them where it wasn’t clearly implied.’

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