Gay couple

Not gay, it is not even something that film makers would even think of when this film was made.

Let Zygons Be Zygons.

I think it's just meant to be humorous, not gay.

Charters and Caldicott were hardly gay. They are characters who appeared in a number of British films. Their sports conversations were about Cricket not Rugby.

And not rugby.
Cricket, sir. Cricket!

I don't think that they are gay but, rather, that the implication that they COULD be "gay" is intended as a joke.

By having the two guys share a bed with one guy nude, the scene has obvious "gay" implications.

The idea of a guy being gay was used to humorous effect many times in "Old Hollywood." Christ - homosexuals working in the movie business is as old as the medium itself.

William Hayes was a known homosexual who was a major leading man near the end othe 1920s. He had a lover and everybody knew it. Joan Crawford herself once remarked that their gay marriage was the only one in Hollywood that had any staying power.

Vincent Minnelli and George Cukor were outright homosexuals (why else would Vincent have been so hot after Judy???). Many leading male stars were gay - not to mention the ones that had gay dalliances.

Even one Betty Boop cartoon from 1931 contains a blatant gay reference: As Betty, dressed as "Red Riding Hood," is picking flowers in the woods, an animated tree grabs one freshly-plucked blossom from her while exclaiming "The FAIRIES like them too!"

In TLV, the "gay" implication on the part of the two guys could come off as humorous for any number of reasons: the revelation of what they really "are" vs. what the audiences has so far perceived them to be; the fact they otherwise don't seem "gay" at all; the fact that while they may not be gay, they "look" gay in bed, etc.

As far as the argument goes that they are NOT gay, well, all I can say is that in the sugar scene, the two guys are obviously more into their own discussion and apparently have no interest in the very attractive Margaret Lockwood who is seated next to them. That point is most definitely emphasized when Dame May Whitty asks for the sugar and the two guys just grumble while reluctantly passing the sugar container to Whitty and Lockwood. Just like a couple of gay misogynists.

"Don't call me 'honey', mac."
"Don't call me 'mac'... HONEY!"

I didn't think they were gay at all, although by today's social praxis, it did appear that way, but there was nothing in the way they carried themselves or interacted that would support that argument. They rather seemed like prudent British men who were very much a product of their time. We discussed this in my film class last week when we screened this movie, and I agreed with the professor wholeheartedly in his assertion that they weren't a gay couple, despite what people want to transpose on it. There really wasn't any indication of it.

Supposedly, there's a bit missing before the scene of the two men in bed both reading the paper. One of the men's pajamas are accidentally dropped into water, which is why you see a pair of pajamas hanging - they're supposed to be drying out. So that one man isn't nude or just in his underpants, one man shares his pajamas with the other while the other pair are drying.

I think they're just really good friends who are obsessed with cricket. Now, that doesn't mean that they are or aren't gay, they're just really obsessed, upper middle class unmarried men.

I didn't get the sense that they were gay. They seem like old buds. I hate how people try to sexualize everything. It's sickening.