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December 1970 (UK)
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Tale of torrid and forbidden love between Christie and Bates in the English countryside. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar.
Another 8 wins
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9 nominations
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(3 articles)
Useless Trivia: World's Shortest Score Rejected
(From Daily Film Music Blog. 1 January 2009, 5:39 AM, PST)
Controversial Playwright Harold Pinter Dead At Age 78
(From CinemaRetro. 26 December 2008, 9:52 AM, PST)
(From Daily Film Music Blog. 1 January 2009, 5:39 AM, PST)
Controversial Playwright Harold Pinter Dead At Age 78
(From CinemaRetro. 26 December 2008, 9:52 AM, PST)
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Evocative record of a very hot (and stately) Norfolk summer
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Julie Christie | ... | Marian - Lady Trimingham |
 | Alan Bates | ... | Ted Burgess |
 | Margaret Leighton | ... | Mrs. Maudsley |
| Michael Redgrave | ... | Leo Colston - adult |
| Dominic Guard | ... | Leo Colston - boy |
| Michael Gough | ... | Mr. Maudsley |
| Edward Fox | ... | Hugh Trimingham |
| Richard Gibson | ... | Marcus Maudsley |
| Simon Hume-Kendall | ... | Denys |
| Roger Lloyd-Pack | ... | Charles (as Roger Lloyd Pack) |
| Amaryllis Garnett | ... | Kate (as Amaryllis Garnet) |
| Keith Buckley | ||
| John Rees | ||
| Gordon Richardson |
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118 min
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Iceland:L |
UK:AA (original rating) |
UK:PG (re-rating) (1989) |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-12 |
Sweden:11 |
USA:GP (original rating) |
USA:PG
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Dominic Guard receives an "introducing" credit.
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Referenced in "thirtysomething: The Go Between (#3.23)" (1990)
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Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes
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I agree with the previous reviewer that the time-shifts seem unnecessary and serve only to complicate the film. There's also an unlikely implication that the events of the Norfolk summer which Leo experienced 40 years ago were so traumatic that he had become psychologically incapable of getting married.
But for me, although there's not much that happens in the plot, this film is heavy with nostalgia. It was the first school film I saw on arriving at a Northamptonshire boarding school. Like Leo, I was 13 and didn't understand everything that was going on.
Would I recommend it to today's youth? Well yes, but I wouldn't expect a large proportion of them to sit the entire way through it. It just doesn't have anything like the pace of today's blockbusters or teen movies. The enjoyment of this film is now largely an intellectual one -- it's about the laughable views of the upper class, and about book-to-film transfers.
Incidentally, to my knowledge, this film has never been available for sale on DVD. And yet in March 2006, it was given away as a freebie DVD with the UK's Sunday Telegraph. The film industry is seriously undervaluing its back-catalogue. Who knows what next -- Lindsay Anderson's brilliant 'IF' in a packet of cereal??