---
title: 'Victim (1961)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Basil Dearden'
released: '1961-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 96
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Crime'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/victim-1961'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055597/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Victim (1961)

1961 · 96 min · Drama, Crime · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

Victim is a 1961 British neo-noir suspense film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Syms. The first British film to explicitly name homosexuality and deal with it sympathetically, it premiered in the UK on 31 August 1961 and in the US the following February.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Basil Dearden](https://cinepixo.com/people/basil-dearden)
- **Screenplay:** [Janet Green](https://cinepixo.com/people/janet-green)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Philip Green](https://cinepixo.com/people/philip-green)
- **Producer:** [Michael Relph](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-relph)
- **Director of Photography:** [Otto Heller](https://cinepixo.com/people/otto-heller)
- **Editor:** [John D. Guthridge](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-d-guthridge)

## Cast

- [Donald Churchill](https://cinepixo.com/people/donald-churchill)
- [Nigel Stock](https://cinepixo.com/people/nigel-stock)
- [Sylvia Syms](https://cinepixo.com/people/sylvia-syms)
- [Dennis Price](https://cinepixo.com/people/dennis-price)
- [Noel Howlett](https://cinepixo.com/people/noel-howlett)
- [Norman Bird](https://cinepixo.com/people/norman-bird)
- [John Barrie](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-barrie)
- [Anthony Nicholls](https://cinepixo.com/people/anthony-nicholls)
- [Peter McEnery](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-mcenery)
- [Alan MacNaughtan](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-macnaughtan)
- [Dirk Bogarde](https://cinepixo.com/people/dirk-bogarde)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/victim-1961
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