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- Despite this, it received acclaim and is now regarded as a British classic, and it has been credited with liberalising attitudes towards homosexuality in Great Britain.
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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 ...
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Victim is a 1961 British neo-noir suspense film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Syms. [2] The first British film to explicitly name homosexuality and deal with it sympathetically, [3] it premiered in the UK on 31 August 1961 and in the US the following February.
May 23, 2004 · 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.”.
Victim (1961) was the first commercial film in Britain to deal openly with the need for legal reform concerning homosexuality and was in accord with the recommendations of the Wolfenden Committee, which had examined homosexual offences and prostitution and reported in 1957.
Mar 9, 2016 · The film stands up well. It has a strong cast and is generally well filmed if in a rather conventional style. It is a seminal film of the early 1960s, basically because it addresses explicitly…
Released in 1961 (six years before homosexuality was decriminalised in the United Kingdom), the film was highly controversial, earning an "X" rating from British censors (modern releases have been labelled "PG") and getting outright banned for a time in the United States.
