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Director:
Basil Dearden
see also:
The Blue Lamp
The Gentle Gunman
The Mind Benders

Screenplay:
Janet Green
& John McCormick

Role:
Melville Farr

Victim (1961)
Not the best, but arguably the most significant, role of his career saw Dirk give a daring performance as the homosexual barrister Melville Farr, whose career and marriage face ruin at the hands of blackmailers. Sylvia Syms is his supportive wife Laura. The film helped towards the change in public opinion which paved the way for the 1967 Sexual Offences Act. See Lord Arran's Letter.

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