Victim (1961)

Directed by

Basil Dearden

Genre

drama film, crime film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 160 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A respected barrister discovers that a young man he knows is being blackmailed over his homosexuality. He decides to risk his career and reputation by helping the man and confronting the blackmailers.

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What happens

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. On its release in the United Kingdom, the film proved highly controversial to the British Board of Film Censors, and in the US it was refused a seal of approval from the American Motion Picture Production Code. Despite this, it received acclaim and is now regarded as a British classic, and it has been credited with liberalising attitudes towards homosexuality in Great Britain. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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