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Victim is a 1961 British neo-noir suspense film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Syms. [2] The first British film to explicitly name homosexuality and deal with it sympathetically, [3] it premiered in the UK on 31 August 1961 and in the US the following February.
Sir Dirk Bogarde (born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde; 28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999) was an English actor, novelist and screenwriter.Initially a matinée idol in films such as Doctor in the House (1954) for the Rank Organisation, he later acted in art house films, evolving from "heartthrob to icon of edginess".
The Victim, an American silent film by the Fox Film Corporation starring vamp Valeska Suratt The Victim (1930 film) , an American film starring Esther Howard Victim (1961 film) , a British drama film featuring Dirk Bogarde
Title Director Cast Genre Notes 1961: Bomb in the High Street: Peter Bezencenet, Terry Bishop: Ronald Howard, Terry Palmer, Suzanna Leigh, Jack Allen: Drama: The Breaking Point: Lance Comfort
Sylvia May Laura Syms [2] (6 January 1934 – 27 January 2023) was an English stage and screen actress. Her best-known film roles include My Teenage Daughter (1956), Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957), for which she was nominated for a BAFTA Award, Ice Cold in Alex (1958), No Trees in the Street (1959), Victim (1961) and The Tamarind Seed (1974).
Price was born in Ruscombe in Berkshire.He had distant Welsh family connections, and was the son of Brigadier-General Thomas Rose Caradoc Price (1875–1949) CMG DSO [1] (who was a great-grandson of Sir Rose Price, 1st Baronet and, through his mother, a descendant of the Baillie baronets [broken anchor] of Polkemmet, near Whitburn, West Lothian) [2] [3] and his wife Dorothy, née Verey ...
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McEnery appeared in Victim, a 1961 British neo-noir suspense film directed by Basil Dearden in which McEnery plays Barrett, a young working-class gay man who falls prey to blackmailers after he and the titular character are photographed in an intimate embrace. McEnery also starred alongside Hayley Mills in the 1964 film The Moon-Spinners. [2]