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FilmPublisher number: ECL118 | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Eclipse (Criterion Collection (Firm)). Series 25, Basil Dearden's London underground.Publisher: [Irvington, New York] : Criterion Collection, [2010]Copyright date: ©1961Edition: [DVD]Description: 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

9781604653793
1604653795
9781604653762
1604653760

Subject(s):

Genre/Form: DDC classification:

791.43/72 23

LOC classification:

PN1997 .V53 2010

Online resources:

Production credits:

Director of photography, Otto Heller ; editor, John D. Guthridge ; music, Philip Green.

Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Nigel Stock, Peter McEnery, Donald Churchill, Anthony Nicholls, Hilton Edwards.Summary: Melville Farr, a closeted, married barrister who bravely takes on a blackmailer targeting a group of vulnerable gay London men from various walks of life.Summary: Dramatization of the problems of the criminalization of homosexual acts between consenting adults. Bogarde plays a successful barrister who places his career on the line by 'coming out' in order to expose a blackmail racket. It was the first British film to concentrate on male homosexuality and was made with the specific intention of supporting the new recommendations of the 1957 Wolfenden Committee for the partial decriminalization of male homosexual acts.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD-02398 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050185727

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