Plot Summary A plea for reform of England's anti-sodomy statutes, Melville Farr (Sir Dirk Bogarde), a married lawyer, tries to locate a blackmailer who has photos of Farr and a crying young gay man (who becomes blackmailed) in Farr's car. After the suicide, Farr tracks down other gay...
Recent critics find “Victim” timid in its treatment of homosexuality, but viewed in the context of Great Britain in 1961, it’s a film of courage. How much courage can be gauged by the fact that it was originally banned from American screens simply because it used the word “homosexual....
A rape victim is turned away by the police who decline to prosecute. She turns to Harry for help finding justice. Read more: Plot summary Director Richard Lang Writers Howard Rodman (creator) | Robert Dozier (executive story consultant) | John Meredyth Lucas (teleplay) (story) | Michael...
THE body of the last man to be hanged in Northern Ireland may NEVER be exhumed from its...By OliverJoe
Victim has a neat plot, deft direction by Basil Dearden, and the sort of grum good manners one expects of the British in these trying situations. It also has a careful performance by Bogarde, and it pursues with eloquence and conviction the case against an antiquated statute. ...
The plot makes these points well enough, what with a suicide, a heart attack, ruined careers, and multiple blackmails.However, it probably took a fair amount of courage at the time just to make this film, which was clearly a plea for legal reform. Reform that came six years later in ...
Years after Hussin's schoolmate Wahab is spurned by Rahimah, a resentful Wahab takes his revenge through malicious lies slandering Rahimah and Hussin, Rahimah's new brother-in-law. Their family suffers in the resultant consequences, and in...See more Read more: Plot summary ...