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8.0/10   1,548 votes
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Director:
Writers:
John Braine (novel)
Neil Paterson (writer)
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Release Date:
January 1959 (UK) more
Genre:
Tagline:
A Savage Story of lust and ambition
Plot:
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Won 2 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 10 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
BBC4 to adapt Dh Lawrence's Women in Love
 (From The Guardian - TV News. 2 December 2009, 7:29 AM, PST)

Goodbye Toronto: Fish Tank and Le Refuge
 (From FilmExperience. 21 September 2009, 9:56 AM, PDT)

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Signoret, smoking more (30 total)

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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:115 min | Argentina:115 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Trivia:
Initially no British cinema chains wanted to touch the film as the British Board of Film Classification had given it an X certificate, then usually synonymous with exploitation fare. Eventually the ABC chain took a chance and picked it up for distribution, scoring a huge critical and commercial hit in the process. more
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Anachronisms: The story takes place in 1947, but all the women's fashions and hairstyles are strictly in the contemporary 1958 mode, when the film went before the cameras. more
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36 out of 42 people found the following review useful.
Signoret, smoking, 22 April 2006
10/10
Author: totalwonder from United States

Loneliness and longing in this extraordinary, ageless masterpiece. The film is dominated by the phenomenal Simone Signoret and I got dizzy looking at her beautifully complicated face. Laurence Harvey's petulance works wonders here and Jack Clayton, the director, orchestrates a soap opera for the thinking man. Everythings rings true even the most unbelievable details. The older woman syndrome is so masterfully captured here that, at times, you want to look away because the truth in Signoret's eyes is piercing as she sexily smokes her cigarette blowing the smoke right at us. I'm just rambling I know, my intention is to wet your appetite. Another extra bonus is the superb performance by Hermione Baddely, renamed by Noel Coward as Miss Gooddely. A total must!

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