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Victim

Victim

Crime Drama Thriller

1961, Movie, 1h 36min

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.

Country: United Kingdom

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Charles Lloyd Pack

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Average critic rating

7.3

Reviews

Critic William Thomas

rated

6

...remains a strong, unusual blackmail thriller with a central performance from Dirk Bogarde...

Read full review at Empire

Critic Peter Bradshaw

rated

10

Bogarde is gaunt, sensitive, elegant.

Read full review at The Guardian

Critic Roger Ebert

rated

10

...viewed in the context of Great Britain in 1961, it's a film of courage.

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