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Basil Dearden (1911-1971) was one of the most outstanding directors of classic British cinema. After his apprenticeship as an assistant director, he directed his own films from 1941, all of which were made for Ealing Studios until its dissolution in 1959.
On his return, Basil was hired as production manager by theatrical impresario Basil Dean and decided to elongate his surname to Dearden in order to avoid causing confusion around the office. Initially, he focused solely on the stage side, while Dean concentrated on running Associated Talking Pictures, which he had founded at Ealing Studios in 1929.
Victim. Directed by Basil Dearden • 1961 • United Kingdom. An extraordinary performance by Dirk Bogarde grounds this intense, sobering indictment of early-sixties social intolerance and sexual puritanism. Bogarde plays Melville Farr, a married barrister who is one of a large group of closeted London men who become targets of a blackmailer.
17 apr 2021 · Basil Dearden’s 1961 film, Victim, represents a significant moment in British film history.Released into a world where sex between adult men in the United Kingdom was a heavily policed crime, it is the first British film to use the word homosexual inside a narrative that thoughtfully and unsensationally captures the cumulative daily stresses and deadly effects of the law.
Victim. Victim è un film del 1961 diretto da Basil Dearden . Il film vede come protagonista Dirk Bogarde che interpreta il ruolo di un affermato avvocato della City accusato d'esser omosessuale. Si tratta della prima pellicola cinematografica inglese a chiara tematica gay, quando ancora in Inghilterra intrattenere rapporti omosessuali era ...
"After acting in repertory and on tour in the USA, Dearden stage-managed for Basil Dean for five years and went to work at Ealing in 1937… In the Fifties, working mostly in collaboration with Michael Relph, he turned his mind to social-problem films - tackling such issues as race-relations (Sapphire) and homosexuality (Victim) - but his approach, though liberal, was timid and sober.
28 mar 2024 · This book offers the first full systematic assessment and evaluation of the cinema of this important filmmaking partnership. Dearden and Relph came together at the famous Ealing Studios in the wartime period and became the most prolific production team at the studio, contributing such popular and critically acclaimed films as The Captive Heart (1946), The Blue Lamp (1950) and Pool of London ...
