Victim
Summary:
In its time, Victim was considered as a daring a film as had ever been made in England. Taken at face value, Janet Green and John McCormick's screenplay is nothing new: Dirk Bogarde plays a lawyer who agrees to defend an old friend (John McEnery) on a theft charge, only to be enmeshed in a blackmailing scheme. What set this one apart is the fact that the lawyer had once be... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Dirk Bogarde - (Melville Farr)
Sylvia Syms - (Laura Farr)
Dennis Price - (Calloway)
Anthony Nicholls - (Lord Fullbrook)
Peter Copley - (Paul Mandrake)
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Review:
Motion pictures were entering a new era of greater permissiveness in the 1960s. Victim, released in 1962, helped to push out the boundaries with regard to cinematic acknowledgement of homosexuality and is for that reason, something of a landmark in film history. At the same time, because many of the societal advances the film endorses have been ... Continue >>
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