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     Dirk Bogarde

     Melville Farr
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     Sylvia Syms

     Laura
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     Dennis Price

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     Peter Copley

     Paul Mandrake
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     Peter McEnery

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Victim_(1961_film)Victim (1961 film) - Wikipedia

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   Victim is a 1961 British neo-noir suspense film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Syms. The first British film to explicitly name homosexuality and deal with it sympathetically, it premiered in the UK on 31 August 1961 and in the US the following February.

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4. www.imdb.com › title › tt0055597Victim (1961) - IMDb

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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.

   • Director: Basil Dearden

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5. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › great-movie-victim-1961Victim movie review & film summary (1961) | Roger Ebert

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   May 23, 2004 · Farr was played by Dirk Bogarde, as a smooth, skilled barrister who projects a surface of strength and calm. He only raises his voice two or three times in the movie, but we sense an undercurrent of anger: He finds it wrong that homosexuality is punished, wrong that gays cannot go to the police to complain of blackmail, wrong that hypocrisy ...

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   How old was Dirk Bogarde when he died?

   • "Dirk Bogarde, 78, Matinee Idol Turned Serious Actor, Dies". New York Times. Retrieved 25 April 2016. Excluding an early bit part, Victim was his 34th film. ^ Mayer, Geoff; McDonnell, Brian (2007). Encyclopedia of Film Noir. Greenwood Press. p. 433. ISBN 9780313333064. Retrieved 22 April 2016. ^ Vagg, Stephen (22 February 2023).

   Victim (1961 film) - Wikipedia

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   Is victim a neo-noir film?

   • Victim is a 1961 British neo-noir suspense film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Syms. The first British film to explicitly name homosexuality and deal with it sympathetically, it premiered in the UK on 31 August 1961 and in the US the following February.

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   Who is Dirk Bogarde?

   • Many actors have undergone transformations, from Olivia Colman morphing from a British sitcom mainstay into a serious actress of international repute, to Robert DeNiro trading method-actor intensity for jovial fare like Meet The Fockers – but no-one has made quite such a provocative career turn as Dirk Bogarde. More like this:

   Why Dirk Bogarde was a truly dangerous film star - BBC

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   Is 'victim' a film of courage?

   • In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Recent 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."

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7. www.rottentomatoes.com › m › victim_1962Victim | Rotten Tomatoes

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   100% Tomatometer 31 Reviews 87% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings In early 1960s London, barrister Melville Farr (Dirk Bogarde) is on the path to success. With his practice winning cases and a...

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   • Actors: Dirk Bogarde

   • Director: Basil Dearden
   • Category: Mystery & Thriller, Drama

8. www.imdb.com › title › tt0055597Victim (1961) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb

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   Dirk Bogarde ... Melville Farr: Sylvia Syms ... Laura: Dennis Price ... Calloway: Anthony Nicholls ... Lord Fullbrook: Peter Copley ... Paul Mandrake: Norman Bird ... Harold Doe: Peter McEnery ... Barrett: Donald Churchill ... Eddy: Derren Nesbitt ... Sandy Youth: John Barrie

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10. www.imdb.com › title › tt0055597Victim (1961) - Plot - IMDb

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    A plea for reform of England's anti-sodomy statutes, Melville Farr (Sir Dirk Bogarde), a married lawyer, tries to locate a blackmailer who has photos of Farr and a crying young gay man (who is being blackmailed and later commits suicide) in Farr's car.

11. www.bbc.com › culture › articleWhy Dirk Bogarde was a truly dangerous film star - BBC

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    Mar 23, 2021 · Then, in 1961 with his contract at Rank coming to an end, Bogarde took the role of barrister Melville Farr in Basil Dearden's Victim, a black-and-white thriller about gay men being blackmailed ...