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''Victim'' is a 1961 British suspense film directed by Basil Dearden, starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Syms. It is notable in film history for being the first English language film to use the word "homosexual". The world premiere was at the Odeon Cinema in Leicester Square on 31 August 1961.〔 On its release in the United Kingdom it proved highly controversial to the British Board of Film Censors, and in the U.S. it was refused a seal of approval from the American Motion Picture Production Code. == Plot == A successful barrister, Melville Farr (Dirk Bogarde) has a thriving London practice. He is on course to become a Queen's Counsel and people are already talking of his being appointed a judge. He is apparently happily married to his wife, Laura (Sylvia Syms). Farr is approached by "Boy" Barrett (Peter McEnery), a younger working class man with whom Farr shared a romantic but non-sexual relationship. Farr rebuffs the approach, thinking Barrett wants to blackmail him about their relationship. What Farr does not know is that Barrett himself has fallen prey to blackmailers who know of their relationship. The blackmailers have a picture of Farr and Barrett in a vehicle together, in which Barrett is crying with Farr's arm around him. Barrett has been trying to reach Farr to appeal for help, because Barrett has stolen £2,300 from his employers to pay the blackmailer and the police suspect him. Farr intentionally avoids him. Barrett is soon picked up by the police, who discover why he was being blackmailed. Knowing it will be only a matter of time before he is forced to reveal Farr's identity as the other man, Barrett hangs himself in a police cell. Learning the truth about Barrett, Farr takes on the blackmail ring and recruits a friend of Barrett's to investigate for him. The friend identifies a gay hairdresser who has also been victimised by the ring, but the hairdresser refuses to identify his tormentors. When the hairdresser is visited by one of the blackmailers, he suffers a heart attack, as they begin to destroy his shop. Prior to his death, he phones Farr's house and leaves a mumbled message about another victim of the ring. Farr contacts this victim, a famous actor, but the actor refuses to help him, preferring to pay the blackmailers to keep his secret. Laura finds out about Barrett's death and confronts her husband, demanding he tell her the truth. After a heated argument, Farr admits that before their marriage he had had a relationship with another man; the man had subsequently killed himself when the relationship ended. He had told Laura about this before they married and promised that he no longer had such urges. Laura, seeing Farr's relationship with Barrett as a betrayal, decides to leave him. The blackmailers vandalise Farr's property, painting ''"FARR IS QUEER"'' on his garage doors. Farr resolves to help the police catch them and promises to give evidence in court, despite knowing that the ensuing press coverage will certainly destroy his career. The blackmailers are identified and arrested. Farr tells Laura to leave before the ugliness of the trial, but that he will welcome her return afterward. She tells him that she believes she has found the strength to return to him. Farr burns the picture that incriminated him. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Victim (1961 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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