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Basil Dearden (born Basil Clive Dear; 1 January 1911 – 23 March 1971) was an English film director.
Basil Dearden. Director: Sapphire. A former stage director, Basil Dearden entered films as an assistant to director Basil Dean (he changed his name from Dear to avoid being confused with Dean).
Basil Dearden. Director: Sapphire. A former stage director, Basil Dearden entered films as an assistant to director Basil Dean (he changed his name from Dear to avoid being confused with Dean). Dearden worked his way up the ladder and directed (with Will Hay) his first film in 1941; two years later he directed his first film on his own.
Apr 17, 2021 · Basil Dearden’s 1961 film, Victim, represents a significant moment in British film history. Released into a world where sex between adult men in the United Kingdom was a heavily policed crime, it is the first British film to use the word homosexual inside a narrative that thoughtfully and unsensationally captures the cumulative daily stresses ...
Best known for his collaborations after the late 1940s with producer-writer Michael Relph, some of which embrace controversial subject matter ranging from race relations (the intriguing murder mystery Sapphire, 1959) to the blackmailing of homosexuals (the landmark Victim, 1961).
Experience in amateur dramatics led to work with the Ben Greet Company and to his appointment as assistant stage manager at the Grand Theatre, Fulham. In 1931 he became a general stage manager for the theatrical enterprises of the impresario Basil Dean.
Jan 25, 2011 · In Sapphire, two detectives investigate the murder of a college student who was of mixed race but was “passing” for white. The manhunt takes them on a tour of the city’s black communities, seldom shown cinematically before, and reveals the shocking intolerance of many in the white middle class.
