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VICTIM
Opens on August 27
Director: Basil Dearden Run Time: 100 min. Release Year: 1961
Starring: Anthony Nicholls, Dennis Price, Dirk Bogarde, Peter Copley, Sylvia Syms
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.