Victim

Victim
by Basil Dearden

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Actor: Dennis Price, Dirk Bogarde, Nigel Stock, Peter McEnery, Sylvia Syms
Director: Basil Dearden
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Otto Heller
Editor: John D. Guthridge
Writer: Janet Green
Writer: John McCormick
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-01-21
Studio: Home Vision Entertainment

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Movie Review: gay rights back in the 50's????
Summary: 5 Stars

This film is as timely now.. or maybe even more so than when it was produced. This is a film about HUMAN rights really.

The right to exist openly, without fear of blackmail, shame, hatred.
It is told in such a compelling dynamic way. Any man would be compelled to watch this story build and be told. This is a story that shows what being a victim means... and, thankfully... what refusing to be a victim means as well. This isn't a poof movie, it's a gritty, serious, suspensful thriller that begs answer to the question...why is loving someone of the same gender a criminal offense? The crime is of our society, and our laws... not of the "victim". The shame is society's shame not of the "victim". This is a BRAVE movie...relevant for our times.. but so far ahead of it's day 50 years ago!!! Bravo.

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Summary of Victim

This is a landmark exceptional & controversial thriller about a married gay lawyer who risks his reputation by confronting a gang of blackmailers responsible for causing his ex-lovers suicide. Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 01/21/2003 Starring: Dirk Bogarde Run time: 100 minutes

Dirk Bogarde risked his career to make this 1962 film about a lawyer who risks his career to stand up to blackmailers. Part crime thriller and part plea for tolerance, Victim uses the terror of a blackmailing ring to point out the injustice of Britain's antisodomy laws. Bogarde plays Melville Farr, a married lawyer who learns of a blackmail scheme when one of its victims, an old friend, commits suicide rather than tell the police. As Farr conducts an investigation, he must confront his own past. Victim was ahead of its time--it was the first English-language movie to use the word "homosexual"--and as such it seems quaint and stilted at times. Straw-man clich?s about homosexuality must be knocked down, and, like in all first-wave issue movies, occasionally characters need to have rather stilted debates. Still, the crime plot stands on its own, the performances are excellent, and the film is brave enough to make some very good points. This is an interesting and worthy bit of cinematic history. --Ali Davis

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