Naslov:
Against the LawLeto:
2017Zvrst:
biografija, drama, zgodovina, romantičniTrajanje:
84 minRežija:
Fergus O'BrienScenarij:
Peter Wildeblood, Brian FillisGlavne vloge:
Daniel Betts > Defence Rawlinson
Charlie Creed-Miles > Superintendent Jones
Richard Dillane > Prosecutor Roberts
James Gaddas > Governor Cockayne
Mark Gatiss > Dr. Landers
Paul Keating > Fanny
David Robb > Lord Wolfenden
Timothy Watson > Clerk of Assize
Peter Wildeblood > Himself (archive footage)
Daniel Mays > Peter Wildeblood
Mark Edel-Hunt > Edward Montagu
Claire Bond > Iris
Joshua Collins > Michael Pitt-Rivers
Barney White > Dan Starling
Richard Gadd > Eddie McNally
Povzetek:
In 1952 journalist Peter Wildeblood, at a time when same-sex was a crime, picks up RAF corporal Eddie McNally, thus beginning a love affair, often conducted through letters. Peter introduces him to Edward, Lord Montagu and the earl's cousin Michael Pitt-Rivers but Peter's love letters to Eddie lead to his arrest and, along with Montagu and Michael he is put on trial . McNally and Johnny Reynolds, another young gay from their circle, are granted immunity if they testify for the prosecution and the three defendants are all jailed. In prison Peter hears about the Wolfenden committee which, partly in response to public sympathy for the harsh treatment of gay men, is seeking to change the law and, on release, bravely and openly gives the committee evidence and advice. Nonetheless it will be a decade before homosexuality is decriminalized. As with Channel 4's treatment of the same case in 2007, 'A Very British Sex Scandal', the drama is intercut with interviews with elderly gay men, who, ...
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