Against the Law
DramaHistoryRomanceTV Moviebased on true storylaw and ethicsmale homosexualitybased on memoir or autobiographydocudramasexual repressionsemi-documentarylgbt1950scriminal trialqueer britanniasocial prejudice
A sobering historical drama about three men prosecuted under oppressive laws, grounded in real events and the injustice of criminalized homosexuality in 1950s Britain.
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.
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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
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