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Kitchen Sink Cinema

British new-wave films, 1956–1970 — and the world they were made in


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Fringe & social-problem

Victim

1961
The world of this film
London, 1961
Homosexuality and blackmail six years before decriminalisation.

The people

director
Basil Dearden
Items marked with a source link are verified against that source; items marked unverified are AI-drafted period colour awaiting a primary source. Dossier assembled from the Kitchen Sink atlas.
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