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.
Acting
Daniel Mays carries Wildeblood's repressed dignity with heartbreaking precision.
Writing
Blends courtroom drama with intimate testimony, based on Wildeblood's actual memoir.
Direction
Fergus O'Brien's semi-documentary style lets archival voices haunt the narrative.
Director
Fergus O'Brien
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mark Gatiss, who plays Dr. Landers, also co-wrote and produced this as part of BBC's 'Queer Britannia' season — he's been campaigning to get this story told for years.
The Montagu trial was Britain's Stonewall before Stonewall — Wildeblood's 1955 book 'Against the Law' was the first sympathetic account of gay life by an openly gay man in British history, and it directly influenced the Wolfenden Committee.
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