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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, [2] it premiered in the UK on 31 August 1961 and in the US the following February. On its release in the United Kingdom, the film proved ...
May 28, 2014 · Watch Victim (1961), a groundbreaking British film that challenged the taboo of homosexuality and blackmail. A classic thriller with a powerful message.
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May 23, 2004 · Victim. 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." To be gay was a crime in the United States and the ...
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Victim (1961) Victim (1961) Victim (1961) Victim (1961) Victim (1961) View more photos Movie Info Synopsis In early 1960s London, barrister Melville Farr (Dirk Bogarde) is on the path to success.
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- Dirk Bogarde
- Basil Dearden
- Mystery & Thriller, Drama
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. After the suicide, Farr tracks down other gay men being extorted for money by the same ...
An extraordinary performance by Dirk Bogarde grounds this intense, sobering indictment of early-sixties social intolerance and sexual puritanism. Bogarde plays Melville Farr, 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 ...
