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Synopsis

Nighthawks: After the end of his workday, staid schoolteacher Jim explores the disco's and secret meeting places of London's gay underground, unable to reconcile his sexual identity with the rest of his life - until the strain of living a lie threatens to take its toll at last.

Nighthawks 2: British director Ron Peck's look back at at the production of his groundbreaking Nighthawks, which candidly explored a closeted gay schoolteacher's inner conflicts.

The director tells very poignantly his own story of self-discovery and coming out. Most striking is the story of how much effort and determination it took to get Nighthawks made and why there are hundreds of names in the closing credits that the "producers would like to give thanks to" - they are people who sent in small amounts of money after reading in a London gay paper that the filmmakers needed funds to continue the project.