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30 April 1962 (USA)
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The prize winning comedy-drama of a young girl's passionate love for life!...
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The moving story of a plain young girl who becomes pregnant by a black sailor, befriends a homosexual, and gradually becomes a woman. full summary | add synopsis
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Won 4 BAFTA Film Awards.
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4 nominations
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A poignant, delicately powerful gem of a movie!
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Dora Bryan | ... | Helen |
| Robert Stephens | ... | Peter Smith |
| Rita Tushingham | ... | Jo [Josephine] |
| Murray Melvin | ... | Geoffrey Ingham |
| Paul Danquah | ... | Jimmy |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Michael Bilton | ... | Landlord |
| Eunice Black | ... | Schoolteacher |
| David Boliver | ... | Bert |
| Margo Cunningham | ... | Landlady |
| A. Goodman | ... | Rag and Bone Man |
| John Harrison | ... | Cave Attendant |
| Veronica Howard | ... | Gladys |
| Moira Kaye | ... | Doris |
| Graham Roberts | ||
| Valerie Scarden | ... | Woman in Shoe Shop |
| Rosalie Scase | ... | Nurse |
| Herbert Smith | ... | Shoe Store Proprietor |
| Jack Yarker | ... | Ship's Mate |
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100 min
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Despite winning Best Actor (Murray Melvin) and Best Actress (Rita Tushingham) prizes at Cannes, Dora Bryan and Tushingham went unrecognized and were barred from the film's celebration party until film critic Alexander Walker spotted them outside and was able to get them in.
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Revealing mistakes: During the opening credits bus ride through Manchester the very large building on Portland street overlooking Piccadilly Gardens (now a Thistle hotel) has large letters across the top on each wing identifying it as "Hickson, Lloyd & King Ltd." But in the shot, the letters are all backwards in a mirror image.
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Referenced in A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
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Because He Loves Me
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This offbeat film is funny, tragic, and all the stops in between...and if Rita Tushingham, as the teenaged heroine "Jo", is the movie's heart, its soul is Murray Melvin, whose subtle but searing performance as her friend "Geoff" is one of the greatest on film (it deservedly won him the Cannes Film Festival's "Palme d'Or").
Most of the musical score may sound odd to American ears (I believe it reflects the instrumental music that actually accompanied the stage play from which this film is adapted), but the chorus of lilting children's voices, singing a traditional song, that is heard over the movie's opening and closing sequences, is extremely effective.