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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.
May 23, 2004 · To the almost unconvincingly wise and civilized Detective Inspector Harris (John Barrie), it's an open-and-shut case: Barrett has no money, lived simply, had stolen thousands from his employer, seemed gay, and therefore was a blackmail victim.
In early 1960s London, barrister Melville Farr (Dirk Bogarde) is on the path to success. With his practice winning cases and a loving marriage to his wife (Sylvia Syms), Farr's career and...
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- Dirk Bogarde
- Basil Dearden
- Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Victim. 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.
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Basil Dearden's gay-blackmail drama, which helped to change the law on homosexuality in the UK, is back in UK cinemas in a restored digital print. On its first release in 1961, Sight & Sound contributor Terence Kelly praised its groundbreaking candour and a first-class performance by Dirk Bogarde.
Victim (1961) -- (Movie Clip) A Law Which Sends Homosexuals To Prison Rising barrister Farr (Dirk Bogarde) is summoned before the very crafty Inspector Harris (John Barrie), making delicate inquiries about possible blackmail, in director Basil Dearden's Victim, 1961.
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Jul 14, 2017 · A young wages clerk is arrested after drawing fictitious salaries to pay off a blackmailer threatening to release a compromising photograph of him with another man. In the 1961 film Victim ...
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