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5.4/10   92 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Iris Murdoch (novel)
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Release Date:
December 1970 (UK) more
Genre:
Tagline:
A Severed Head is not a horror story ... It's something else! more
Plot:
Antonia, the pampered wife of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an upper class wine merchant, tells her husband that she is in love with their best friend... more | add synopsis
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The title is AWFUL but the film is ......... more (5 total)

Cast

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Lee Remick ... Antonia Lynch-Gibbon

Richard Attenborough ... Palmer Anderson

Ian Holm ... Martin Lynch-Gibbon
Claire Bloom ... Honor Klein
Jennie Linden ... Georgie Hands
Clive Revill ... Alexander Lynch-Gibbon
Ann Firbank ... Rosemary Lynch-Gibbon
Rosamund Greenwood ... Miss Seelhaft
Constance Lorne ... Miss Hernshaw
Robert Gillespie ... Winking Patient
Katherine Parr ... Receptionist
Nerys Hughes ... Nurse
Anne Jameson ... Woman at Party (as Ann Jameson)
Yvette Rees ... Woman at Party
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98 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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10 out of 13 people found the following comment useful.
The title is AWFUL but the film is ........., 15 June 2005
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Author: TequilaMockingbird63 from Hollywood, CA.

I had to watch this film recently and expected to see HORROR film. A SEVERED HEAD!? h-e-l-l-o? Only to find out this is a comedy... I THINK? Very dry, very British. The confusing title would be explained at the end of the film as the character Honor quotes: "Go back to reality Martin,... I am an object of terrible fascination to you, A Severed Head such as primitive tribes used putting a morsel of gold on it tong to make it out of prophecies, as real people you and i do not exist for one and other" I know, huh? I didn't get the correlation either. Seeing there are only 3 user comments I feel bad for so many films like this. So many thousands of films that took so long to make and so many actors gave great performances only to fall into the abyss of obscurity. Worth watching though if only for Lee Remick who is absolutely stunning and quite a skilled dead pan comic.

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