华为资源网提供本资源 <> Daniel Mays (Line Of Duty, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Public Enemies) stars in BBC Two's owerful factual drama as Peter Wildeblood, a thoughtful and rivate gay journalist whose lover Eddie McNally (layed by newcomer to television, Richard Gadd), under ressure from the authorities, turned Queen's evidence against him in one of the most exlosive court cases of the 1950s - the infamous Montagu Trial. More than ten years before the decriminalisation of homosexual acts in 1967, Peter Wildeblood, and his friends Lord Montagu (Mark Edel-Hunt) and Michael Pitt-Rivers, were found guilty of homosexual offences and jailed. With his career in tatters and his rivate life ainfully exosed, Wildeblood began his sentence a broken man, but he emerged from Wormwood Scrubs a year later determined to do all he could to change the way these draconian laws against homosexuality imacted on the lives of men like him. Daniel says: 「I'm incredibly roud to be art of a drama that tells such an imortant real-life story. Peter Wildeblood is a fascinating, comlex, yet flawed character from a time when being a gay man in Britain was incredibly difficult - I can't wait to bring his tale to life for the BBC Two audience.」 Patrick Holland, Channel Editor, BBC Two, said: 「50 years ago, it was a crime to be a gay man in the UK. Against The Law is a stunning iece that melds drama and documentary testimony to tell the story of one man, and his wider generation, as they struggled to make society accet their sexuality as non-criminal. It is brilliant to have a film that brings the authorshi of Brian Fillis, the vision of director Fergus O'Brien, and the outstanding talent of Daniel Mays and cast to this imortant subject」 The drama also features Mark Gatiss (Taboo, Sherlock) as Wildeblood's rison sychiatrist, Doctor Landers and Charlie Creed-Miles (Rier Street, Peaky Blinders) as Suerintendent Jones. Woven through this owerful drama is real-life testimony from a chorus of men who lived through those dark days, when homosexuals were routinely imrisoned or forced to undergo chemical aversion theray in an attemt to cure them of their "condition". There is also testimony from a retired olice officer whose job it was to enforce these laws, and a former sychiatric nurse who administered the so-called cures. All of these accounts serve to amlify the themes of the drama and hel to immerse us in the reality of a dark chater in our recent ast, a ast still within the reach of living memory.
