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Overview

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7.5/10   416 votes
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Director:
Bryan Forbes
Writers:
Lynne Reid Banks (novel)
Bryan Forbes (screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
20 November 1962 (UK) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
"Sex is not a forbidden word!"
Plot:
Jane, a young French woman, pregnant and unmarried, takes a room in a seedy London boarding house, which is inhabited by an assortment of misfits... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 wins & 3 nominations more
NewsDesk:
Actor Brock Peters Dies at 78
 (From WENN. 23 August 2005)

User Comments:
Forgotten, but marvelous more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Leslie Caron ... Jane Fosset
Anthony Booth ... Youth in Street
Avis Bunnage ... Doris
Patricia Phoenix ... Sonia
Verity Edmett ... Jane II
Tom Bell ... Toby
Cicely Courtneidge ... Mavis
Harry Locke ... Newsagent
Ellen Dryden ... Girl in Newsagent's
Emlyn Williams ... Dr. Weaver
Jennifer White ... Monica

Brock Peters ... Johnny
Gerry Duggan ... Bert
Joan Ingram ... Woman in Park
Mark Eden ... Terry
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Additional Details

Runtime:
126 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:X (original rating) | UK:15 (video rating)

Fun Stuff

Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Mary Tyler Moore: The Square-Shaped Room (#2.13)" (1971) more
Soundtrack:
Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty more

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14 out of 16 people found the following comment useful:-
Forgotten, but marvelous, 21 June 1999
Author: Patsy-9 from Calgary, AB

It's a shame this film has been all but forgotten. It's an excellent drama and character study, and features a career best performance from Leslie Caron, as an unwed pregnant French woman at a London boarding house. Though they all want her to get an abortion for various reasons, she refuses, and this forces them all to emerge from their shells and become a framework of friendship and love. The ending is sad, and just about perfect. The fact that time has neglected it is a true shame.

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