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Victim: Directed by Basil Dearden. With Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Anthony Nicholls. A closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice.
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Victim (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Between You And The Blackie When Eddy (Donald Churchill) arrives with an incriminating photo, Barrister Farr (Dirk Bogarde) realizes his culpability in the suicide of their mutual friend, in director Basil Dearden's Victim, 1961.
Show all ( 8) Cannes Film Festival. 2009. Venice Film Festival. 1961. BFI London Film Festival. 2013. BAFTA Awards. 1962 | 2 nominations including: Best British Actor.
Victim (1961) Dirk Bogarde’s trailblazing performance is at the centre of this landmark gay classic. Rent on BFI Player £3.50 Buy in BFI Shop. ‘I wanted him!’. With these words Dirk Bogarde consigned his matinee idol alter-ego to history, and a gripping landmark in gay cinema was born. Bogarde’s closeted, married lawyer Melville Farr ...
May 15, 2012 · Victim (1961)BY ROGER EBERT / May 23, 2004Recent critics find "Victim" timid in its treatment of homosexuality, but viewed in the context of Great Britain in 1961, it's a film of courage. How much courage can be gauged by the fact that it was originally banned from American screens simply because it used the word "homosexual."
In an extraordinary performance, Dirk Bogarde plays a married barrister who is one of a large group of closeted London men who become targets of a blackmailer. Basil Dearden's unmistakably political taboo buster was one of the first films to address homophobia head-on, a cry of protest against British laws forbidding homosexuality, and a sobering indictment of social intolerance and puritanism.
