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Director:
Writers:
David D. Osborn (screenplay)
David D. Osborn (story)
Release Date:
April 1966 (UK) more
Plot:
A fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods. | add synopsis
User Comments:
good for a rainy afternoon when only adolescent dreams will do more (37 total)

Cast

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Rita Tushingham ... Eve

Oliver Reed ... Jean La Bête
Barbara Chilcott ... Trader's Wife
Joseph Golland ... Baptiste (as Jo Golland)
Blain Fairman ... Clerk
Rex Sevenoaks ... The Trader
Linda Goranson ... Trader's Daughter
Jon Granik ... No Name
Merv Campone ... Yellow Dog
Reg McReynolds ... Captain (as Reginald McReynolds)
Walter Marsh ... Preacher
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N. John Smith ... Boat Extra #1
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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:106 min | West Germany:106 min
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Language:
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
UK:15 (video rating) | UK:A (original rating) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | West Germany:16 | Australia:PG

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Rita Tushingham does not utter a single word in the entire film. more

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good for a rainy afternoon when only adolescent dreams will do, 15 February 2005
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Author: fan-36 from United States

I fell in love with Oliver Reed when I was a mere a slip of a girl. That's what this movie is -- a teenage fantasy. Performances are great for the era and the script. Surprisingly NOT overdone, though it's a melodrama to beat all melodramas. Pretty neat that most of the action is centered around only two people - scenes with others in them are only at the beginning and end - and the two carry it off quite well - the action holds. Rita Tushingham did a fine job without ever saying a word. That's acting. Tough to write "dialogue" for Reed to get the story out - and his own back story - when the person he's talking to never speaks to move the narrative along. The scriptwriters handled it pretty well during the time they spend alone in the wild. Oliver Reed, hairy and covered in skins, was as masculine a hunk of man needing domestication as any young girl could ask for. Too bad he made lots of bad movie choices (perhaps because that's what he was offered -- being a difficult actor), because he was delightfully bad-boy gorgeous and had incredible chemistry on camera. (Sighhhh)

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