VICTIM

A ruthless blackmailer has cast a net over the lives and incomes of various men in contemporary London at a time that homosexual relations between consenting adults were still punishable by imprisonment. Melville Farr, a married attorney destined for a seat on the highest court, is caught up in the web when a young man he had befriended is arrested. Disregarding his marriage and career, Farr works tirelessly to discover the identity of the blackmailer and thereby shed more light on antiquated laws that actually encourage blackmail. This groundbreaking film was an outgrowth of the recently released Wolfenden Report (1957), which sought to decriminalize homosexuality.