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Film details
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Country
United Kingdom
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Year
1971
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Genre
Drama
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Introduction
“You can feel the clothes, you can smell the heat; and because all these sensual details are so physically realised, you end up hearing the unsaid, seeing the unseen.”
Richard Roud, Sight & Sound, 1971
Young Leo (Dominic Guard) is at boarding school with Marcus, but lower down the social scale. Spending the summer of 1900 at his friend’s imposing Norfolk estate, he becomes embroiled in a forbidden romance between Marcus’s sister (Julie Christie) and a tenant farmer (Alan Bates). No director has better captured an English summer than Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey in this adaptation of LP Hartley’s novel.
Harold Pinter initially felt that the book was “too painful, too perfect” to adapt. However his screenplay adds a typically elliptical note, with flash-forwards to a figure who turns out to be the adult Leo (Michael Redgrave), marked for life by his experiences.
This was Pinter’s third script for Losey following The Servant (1963) and Accident (1967). A fourth, never realised, was later published as The Proust Screenplay.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Marian, Lady Trimingham
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Ted Burgess
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Mrs Maudsley
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Leo Colston, as an old man
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'Leo' Colston
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Mr Maudsley
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Hugh Trimingham
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Marcus
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Denys
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Charles
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Kate
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Credits
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Continuity
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Screenplay by
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Based on the novel 'The Go-between' by
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Music Composed and Conducted by
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[Unused Score]
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Producers wish to express their grat...
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Cricket Equipment by
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