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Director:
Bryan Forbes
Writers:
Lynne Reid Banks (novel)
Bryan Forbes (screenplay)
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Release Date:
20 November 1962 (UK) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
"Sex is not a forbidden word!"
Plot:
Jane, a young French woman, pregnant and unmarried, takes a room in a seedy London boarding house, which is inhabited by an assortment of misfits... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 wins & 3 nominations more
NewsDesk:
Actor Brock Peters Dies at 78
 (From WENN. 23 August 2005)
User Comments:
Viva Brahms! more (20 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Leslie Caron ... Jane Fosset
Anthony Booth ... Youth in Street
Avis Bunnage ... Doris
Patricia Phoenix ... Sonia
Verity Edmett ... Jane II
Tom Bell ... Toby
Cicely Courtneidge ... Mavis
Harry Locke ... Newsagent
Ellen Dryden ... Girl in Newsagent's
Emlyn Williams ... Dr. Weaver
Jennifer White ... Monica

Brock Peters ... Johnny
Gerry Duggan ... Bert
Joan Ingram ... Woman in Park
Mark Eden ... Terry
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Runtime:
126 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:X (original rating) | UK:15 (video rating)
Filming Locations:
4 St Luke's Road, Notting Hill, London, England, UK more
Company:
British Lion Film Corporation more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The Smiths open their album The Queen Is Dead with the scene of the character Mavis leading a chorus of "Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty." more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Mary Tyler Moore: The Square-Shaped Room (#2.13)" (1971) more
Soundtrack:
Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty more

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Viva Brahms!, 31 August 2006
8/10
Author: piktor7778 from Santa Monica, California

I was a tender 14 years old in 1962, when I accompanied my mentor (my high school Spanish teacher) to an art house movie theater in Greenwich Village to see this film. My only previous encounter with Leslie Caron had been in the wonderfully entertaining film "Gigi". I must say, this two hour spectacle of unrelieved misery came as quite a shock to me. I left the theater thinking I had just seen the most depressing film I had ever seen in my life. And yet...I loved it! In fact, I felt very grown up at having survived it. This would not have been possible without the aid of the movie's soundtrack, Brahm's Piano Concerto No.1, which my astonished ears heard for the first time that evening. I've been in love with that piece--and with Brahms--ever since.

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