South (movie)
- Production country: US
- Producer: Mario Prizek
- Production companies: Granada Television
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 11/24/1959
- Run time: 80 min.
Movie description
The earliest surviving gay-themed British TV drama, South stars Peter Wyngarde as Lt Jan Wicziewsky, who visits a southern plantation as the American Civil War looms. The arrival of Eric MacClure (Gould) forces Wicziewsky to face up to his darkest secret: his love for another man. Barely two years after the Wolfenden Report, homosexuality was still taboo – making Wyngarde’s impassioned performance all the more extraordinary.
