SYNOPSIS: An extraordinary performance by Dirk Bogarde grounds this intense, sobering indictment of early-sixties social intolerance and sexual puritanism. Bogarde plays Melville Farr, a married barrister who is one of a large group of closeted London men who become targets of a blackmailer. Basil Dearden’s unmistakably political taboo buster was one of the first films to address homophobia head-on, a cry of protest against British laws forbidding homosexuality.
| Melville Farr | Dirk Bogarde |
| Laura | Sylvia Syms |
| Calloway | Dennis Price |
| Phip | Nigel Stock |
| Barrett | Peter McEnery |
| Eddy | Donald Churchill |
| Lord Fullbrook | Anthony Nicholls |
| P. H. | Hilton Edwards |
| Harold Doe | Norman Bird |
| Sandy Youth | Derren Nesbitt |
| Director | Basil Dearden |
| Producer | Michael Relph |
| Screenplay | Janet Green and John McCormick |
| Cinematography | Otto Heller |
| Art direction | Alex Vetchinsky |
| Editing | John D. Guthridge |
| Music | Philip Green |
By January 25, 2011
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