Against the Law

  • Drama
  • History
  • Romance
  • TV Movie
3/16/2017
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Storyline

United Kingdom, March 24, 1954. Ten years before the decriminalization of homosexuality, journalist Peter Wildeblood and his friends Lord Montagu and Michael Pitt-Rivers are convicted and imprisoned for indecency and sodomy.

Director:
Fergus O'Brien
Writer:
Brian Fillis
  • based on true story
  • law and ethics
  • male homosexuality
  • based on memoir or autobiography
  • docudrama
  • sexual repression
  • semi-documentary
  • lgbt
  • 1950s
  • criminal trial
  • queer britannia
  • social prejudice
  • gay theme

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Cast

  • Daniel Mays
    Peter Wildeblood
  • Richard Gadd
    Eddie McNally
  • Mark Gatiss
    Dr. Landers
  • Charlie Creed-Miles
    Superintendent Jones
  • Richard Dillane
    Prosecutor Roberts
  • Paul Keating
    Fanny
  • Mark Edel-Hunt
    Edward Montagu
  • David Robb
    Lord Wolfenden
  • Josh Collins
    Michael Pitt-Rivers
  • Daniel Betts
    Defense Rawlinson
  • Timothy Watson
    Clerk of Assize
  • Barney White
    Dan Starling
  • James Gaddas
    Governor Cockayne
  • Claire Bond
    Iris
  • Matthew Canny
    John Reynolds
  • Mark Holgate
    Tony

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