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-Video, 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: Great movie and a not-so-great transfer
Summary: 4 Stars

Here is a little-seen and underappreciated British gem, the story of a gay man and his very sympathetic wife, and of a law which apparently made being gay illegal at the time in England, around 1960 or so.
Dirk Bogarde investigates a series of blackmail plots involving other gay men who must pay money to a couple or else be revealed for who they truly are. "They're everywhere!" the female half of the couple says in disgust, unable to deal with the fact of gay people in the world. Sound familiar? Things haven't changed that much over the decades. It's to the filmmakers' credit that Bogarde is treated so sympathetically, as he too becomes a victim of the witch hunt. That he tried to become hetero by marrying a woman just goes to show how futile it is to deny one's true nature.
I took off one star just for the poor quality of the transfer. The use of shadows and lighting almost, but not quite, make up for this.

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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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