| Victim | |
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&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Victim_1961_poster.jpg) Original 1961 British quad poster | |
| Directed by | Basil Dearden |
| Written by | Janet Green John McCormick |
| Produced by | Michael Relph |
| Starring | Dirk Bogarde Sylvia Syms Dennis Price |
| Cinematography | Otto Heller |
| Edited by | John D. Guthridge |
| Music by | Philip Green |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Rank Film Distributors |
Release dates |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £153,756[1] |
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.
On its release in the United Kingdom, the film proved highly controversial to the British Board of Film Censors, and in the US it was refused a seal of approval from the American Motion Picture Production Code. Despite this, it received acclaim and is now regarded as a British classic, and it has been credited with liberalising attitudes towards homosexuality in Great Britain.
- ^ Alexander Walker, Hollywood, England (Stein and Day, 1974), p. 157
- ^ "Victim". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
- ^ Robin., Griffiths (2008). Queer cinema in Europe. Intellect. p. 170. ISBN 978-1-84150-079-9. OCLC 938079515.