Victim (1961) 1/10

Plot summary: Numerous gay men in England are being blackmailed, and all of them refuse to go to the police because if they do, they'll be exposed as homosexuals at a time when homosexuality was still illegal. What the blackmailers don't count on is Melville Farr, a barrister who's willing to bring them to justice even if it means exposing his own homosexuality and jeopardizing his career and his marriage.

This film was groundbreaking when it was released; according to IMDb, it was the first film in the English language to use the word "homosexual". Lead actor Dirk Bogarde - who was gay in real life - risked his career to star in it, much in the same way Melville Farr risks his. Also starring Sylvia Syms, Peter McEnery, and Norman Bird. A must-see for anyone interested in the history of homosexuality in film. Roger Ebert put it in The Great Movies II.

This movie has a lot of twists and turns, so stay alert and assume nothing. :) No copyright infringement intended.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• victim
• 1961
• dirk
• bogarde
• melville
• farr
• homosexuality
• homosexual
• gay
• blackmail
• england

[MovieClipUploads]

Wrong damn ratio.

[marauderthesn]

I didn't make the original file, I just divided it into parts and uploaded it.

[tet43]

I see your point, but the reason i included Mr. Bogarde in my thanks, is because at that time, 1961, for any actor, much less on of his star status, to play a sympathetic gay character was career suicide.He had everything to lose, and chose to do the right thing. Because of your age, i don't think you can understand the pressures and stigmas of being defined as gay at that time.There would have been no point to have "come out" ,and the only result, loss of employment and social support systems

[crockyoshighty]

£2300 back in 1960/61 was an absolute fortune!!!! If I were that lot, the blackmailer would be in some real serious bother. Though Im not Gay myself, I have never understood why people find it so offensive? Yes, I do know the reasons, historical etc. Those reasons died out a couple of hundred years ago. One has to be a real twisted SOB to try and ruin someones life over it.

[mazzymuso]

Interesting to see Dennis Price in this movie-another actor who hid his homosexuality, which caused him great unhappiness in his personal life.

[lisambofoh]

Just heard of this movie. Going to give it a shot!

[empath68]

@tet43 I absolutely agree with you. Whilst it may not have harmed his career in hindsight, at the time of making the movie it was a huge risk to take. It's also worth mentioning that homosexuality was not decriminalized in England until the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 (just in case anyone thought that Mr Bogarde should have come out at the time). Dirk Bogarde was a brave and beautiful man, and one of my all time favourite actors!

[blueray1969]

what a great film. really interesting to see shots of London from 50 years ago - places I recognise now.

[blueray1969]

@katatinkacaroon that says more about Los Angeles than anything else.

[russedav5]

by "The g ay in vention" at w w w touch stone mag. com and w w w DrJud ith Reisman. org

[russedav5]

exposed as a vile but incredibly successful fascist propaganda trick that's brainwashed the whole world. 

[russedav5]

See the sad, phony "homo hetero-sex-" oxymoronic fraud (homo = same+sex = opposite!?)

[russedav5]

@crockyoshighty

I really love Dirk as an actor and probably a person too, but sad he was such a fool in yielding to his arrogance in perversion in usual projection imagining "it's everyone else's problem," like alcoholics.

I love the "free" "gay" censorship preventing me from posting

[russedav5]

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