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. 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.
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Cast
- Dirk Bogarde
- Melville Farr
- Sylvia Syms
- Laura
- Dennis Price
- Calloway
- Nigel Stock
- Phip
- Peter McEnery
- Barrett
- Donald Churchill
- Eddy
- Anthony Nicholls
- Lord Fullbrook
- Hilton Edwards
- P. H.
- Norman Bird
- Harold Doe
- Derren Nesbitt
- Sandy Youth
Credits
- Director
- Basil Dearden
- Producer
- Michael Relph
- Screenplay
- Janet Green
- Screenplay
- John McCormick
- Cinematography
- Otto Heller
- Art direction
- Alex Vetchinsky
- Editing
- John D. Guthridge
- Music
- Philip Green
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