Victim (Widescreen) |  | Director: Basil Dearden
Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Anthony Nicholls, Peter Copley
Studio: Paradox
Category: DVD
List Price: CDN$ 23.99
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Sales Rank: 16,273
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: PMIDVIC050D
ISBN: 078002558X
UPC: 037429167021
EAN: 9780780025585
ASIN: B00007ELDE
Release Date: June 21, 2004
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
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From Amazon.com
Dirk Bogarde risked his career to make this 1962 film about a lawyer who risks his career to stand up to blackmailers. Part crime thriller and part plea for tolerance, Victim uses the terror of a blackmailing ring to point out the injustice of Britain's antisodomy laws. Bogarde plays Melville Farr, a married lawyer who learns of a blackmail scheme when one of its victims, an old friend, commits suicide rather than tell the police. As Farr conducts an investigation, he must confront his own past. Victim was ahead of its time--it was the first English-language movie to use the word "homosexual"--and as such it seems quaint and stilted at times. Straw-man clichés about homosexuality must be knocked down, and, like in all first-wave issue movies, occasionally characters need to have rather stilted debates. Still, the crime plot stands on its own, the performances are excellent, and the film is brave enough to make some very good points. This is an interesting and worthy bit of cinematic history. --Ali Davis
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