Dirk Bogarde
Melville Farr
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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.
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.
- Basil Dearden
- 2 min
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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- Dirk Bogarde
- Basil Dearden
- Mystery & Thriller, Drama
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 ...
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.
- Melville Farr
IMDB. Victim (1961) Director: Basil Dearden. Screenplay: Janet Green & John McCormick. Role: Melville Farr. Not the best, but arguably the most significant, role of his career saw Dirk give a daring performance as the homosexual barrister Melville Farr, whose career and marriage face ruin at the hands of blackmailers.
Overview. Synopsis. Credits. Photos & Videos. Film Details. Articles & Reviews. Quotes. Trivia. Notes. Brief Synopsis. A closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice. Cast & Crew. Read More. Basil Dearden. Director. Dirk Bogarde. Melville Farr. Sylvia Syms. Laura Farr. Dennis Price. Calloway. Anthony Nicholls. Lord Fullbrook.
