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#1 2010-08-01 12:39:54
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Forgotten Classics: 'Victim'
Bloody daring in its time in its treatment of homosexuality, Dirk Bogarde rebelled against his matinee image, top totty Sylvia Syms played the wife (why would any man prefer another man?!), and Derren Nesbitt was slimy. Another 'forgotten classic' of British cinema towards the end of its 'grown-up' period.
#2 2010-08-02 03:10:31
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Re: Forgotten Classics: 'Victim'
Bogarde became a bit of an Anglo-European cult figure for a while, even amongst the early punk types circa 1976. I watched 'The Servant' a few years ago and it bored me more or less rigid, in spite of sexy Sarah Miles. Something of a 'mod classic', or so I'm led to believe. I haven't seen 'Accident' in years. Pinter was one of those writers by whom I was deeply fascinated at twenty, pissed off with by forty five or thereabouts; disbelieving in his ridiculous champagne socialism.
#3 2010-08-04 16:37:54
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Re: Forgotten Classics: 'Victim'
Good coffee bar and Lambretta background in 'Victim'.
#4 2010-08-05 02:39:02
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Re: Forgotten Classics: 'Victim'
such a great film, good social comentry on the way men were persecuted and blacmailed not fifty years ago in this country because of their sexual orientation. Shocking eh! The first english film to use the word 'homosexual'. Bogarde's performance is very strong.
I only became aware of this film a few years back via c4. I got the dvd afte seeing it.
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#5 2010-08-05 02:46:29
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Bloody good moddy-type background, even though Lambretta-riding Nesbitt is in shades and leather and looking every inch the Gestapo officer he played in the amusing 'Where Eagles Dare' (a film I saw upon its release and watch about twice a year).