Victim

Name: Victim
Genre: Drama
Released: February 5, 1962
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 85
Cast: Anthony Nicholls, Dennis Price, Derren Nesbitt, Dirk Bogarde, Donald Churchill

1962

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Rank Film Distributors | Release Date: February 5, 1962 | Not Rated

Starring: Anthony Nicholls, Dennis Price, Derren Nesbitt, Dirk Bogarde, Donald Churchill, John Barrie, Norman Bird, Peter Copley, Peter McEnery, Sylvia Syms

Summary: The death of a young man leads to the discovery of a blackmail plot against several gay men in 1960s London.

Director: Basil Dearden

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

This gripping thriller, part of the BFI's Bogarde retrospective, daringly smashed through 1961's homosexual taboos, but has weathered best as a study of blackmail and paranoia. Read full review

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RogerEbert.com Roger Ebert

The movie proceeds on two levels, as a crime thriller and as a character study, and it's this dual nature that makes it an entertainment at the same time it works as a message picture. Read full review

Tim Purtell

While some may be put off by talk of ”abnormalities,” the inner struggle depicted so poignantly in Victim has not dated at all. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

A liberal film on the subject of homosexuality rather than the radical film some considered it at the time, Victim still stands as an intelligent film attempting to address an important social issue. Read full review

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A brave British melodrama from 1961, one of this country's first explorations of gay life on screen. Read full review

J.R. Jones

Victim, for all its compromises, offers a rich mosaic of minor characters, none of them particularly complex but each articulating some British attitude toward homosexuality and the law surrounding it. Read full review

Pauline Kael

Ingenious, moralistic, and moderately amusing.

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