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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.
This article appears in August 31 • 2007.
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