Victim
1961, NR, 98 min.
Directed by Basil Dearden, Starring Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Nigel Stock.

Ahead of its time, this British film attacks the persecution of homosexuals at a time when sodomy was still an imprisonable offense. Bogarde plays a married lawyer who is caught up in a web of blackmail when he is spotted with a known gay man who is arrested. The trail leads to a number of other victims of the same blackmailer.

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