Out of Season (1975) User Reviews

Interesting story

[MuggySphere · 7/10 · 23 August 2003]

I saw this during one of those after midnight movie screenings on late night TV.

I found it quite an interesting film and while it wasn't action packed or had fast cars and stuff it didn't need it. It had a good story, good performances by the three leads, and it had a younger Susan George who looked quite scrumptious as the jealous daughter.

SPOILER:



Near the end of the film the man who stays at the hotel run by Redgraves is seen making love to one of the women but you don't quite see which one it is. It's a safe guess however that it was the daughter, and this would have led to some moral and ethical questions had the film continued on to show the follow up to this. I suspect she was his daughter from his first affair with the Vannessa Redgraves character.

Twos Company......

[malcolmgsw · 5/10 · 4 June 2019]

Rather strange film alround.Difficult to know who this low budget film would have been aimed at.Probably too risqué for American tv,and getting a very rare airing recently on Londoon live.Not particularly engrossing despite the unusual subject matter.

Out of Season

[RavenGlamDVDCollector · 6/10 · 16 March 2014]

Nearly 40 years later, and this little movie will still raise lots of eyebrows with its incestuous theme. I'm here because I'm a die-hard Susan George fanatic ever since having seen her in DIRTY MARY CRAZY LARRY. Her performance here clearly illustrates that nothing can match a young starlet. As small as she is, she overshadows the rest of the cast, Vanessa Redgrave in particular. My only complaint about this movie is that it wasn't released on DVD. Hey, there are scores of Susan's fans in the UK who'd have bought it! It's the kind of film that would have stepped on many people's toes back in the old days what with the biggest social taboos of them all, but it does play safe beating about the bush. I like it, but all six of my stars go to the lovely Susan

Unpleasant Drama and Too Talky

[lavatch · 3/10 · 7 January 2017]

From 1975, this bizarre and unpleasant drama features three strong actors (Cliff Robertson, Vanessa Redgrave, and Susan George) is an implausible ménage-à-trois.

Robertson's character, an American lothario, returns to Great Britain twenty years after he ended a romantic relationship with Redgrave's character. He discovers her as the proprietor of the same picturesque seaside resort, but now with a grown daughter.

The principal action of the film is the attempt of the adults to renew their love relationship with interference from the young daughter, playing the role of seductress.

The film leaves open the possibility that the older man engages in an incestuous relationship with his presumed daughter. Moreover, the premise may be that he knowingly commits the incest, depending on one's interpretation of the final scene.

It may be instructive to observe that playwright-director Harold Pinter was briefly involved in this film project. Indeed, the screenplay has the feeling of one of Pinter's plays, with its unsavory characters, sexual innuendo, and family secrets.

Despite the idyllic location by the sea, the film primarily exploits the claustrophobic environment of the small seaside hotel with the three characters trapped in the hell that they have created for themselves. One of the characters escapes. The major question is which one of the three characters made it out of the nightmare.

VERY INTERESTING!!!

[suelyon · 20 January 1999]

This film involves a woman and her daughter who run a cozy hotel which they also live in on an island.The hotel seems pretty bad,as they have no business.Suddenly,a man shows up,who the woman had an affair with when she was her daughter's age.They reconsumate their relationship,but soon her daughter gets jealous and gets involved with him too. The end shows the man with 1 of the women-but only shows the lower part of her body!!!Okay,but sexual.

Out of good endings.

[plan99 · 3/10 · 23 August 2021]

A terrible ending for a fairly terrible film. Susan was too old for her part and Cliff was far too old for his. Vanessa was her usual airy fairy self. A bit of a long boring plod to watch but I did make it all the way to the end but shouldn't have bothered given the very bad ending.

Out Of Class

[writers_reign · 5/10 · 8 July 2020]

Lots whys here: Why would one brilliant actress (Vanessa Redgrave) one very fine actor (Cliff Robertson) deign to appear with flavour-of-the-month(Susan George, co-title holder with Sarah Miles) in an obvious stage drama that offers no credit to stage origin, why would two US writers with very similar surnames write about something very English and why would a respected Hollywood actor be imported when nothing in the storyline requires a US background and why would two actresses a mere thirteen years apart be cast as mother and daughter. Clearly the writers had been frightened at an early age by the kind of pretentious crap that Pinter used to write for Losey (Accident, anyone?). Finally why would an oversexed teenager be content to bury herself in East Jesus where nothing ever happens all at once.

SUSAN GEORGE WAS SUPER SEXY AND FANTASTIC!

[whpratt1 · 10/10 · 8 June 2002]

Cliff Robertson, Vanessa Redgrave and Susan George gave exceptionally great performances in this fantastic film. The film was full of passion, lust and love. Susan George was very sexy and provocative as the daughter, this was one of her greatest gifts to the film industry with the exception of "Straw Dogs". This is a film you can view over and over again. Make a point to see this film, you will not regret it.

Boring

[evans-15475 · 3/10 · 15 July 2020]

The British film industry died in the 1970s and I assume films like this put the knife in, the slow tittles set up what were the most boring first 10 minutes of any film I've seen and it never really livened up Susan George was totally miscast as the teenager yet was the best thing in it the other 2 had all the charisma of a block of wood, I did fast forward the last 40 minutes to see how it ended and it was even less satisfying than the start

Awful

[ouzman-1 · 1/10 · 29 June 2020]

Surprisingly few people have reviewed this. I expected the Guardian reader to be fawning all over this la-dee-da art work? That they're not should serve as a warning to the wise.

This is dated, and has dated in a way that leaves it there (found bound in some 1970s cinema called the Rex - for the youngsters to get their kicks out of too little naughty, nudity - despite the sexual posters. The dirty men in their macs would have dominated this showing.

It's neither kinky or Bauhaus. It's pants, let me leave that there.

So if it has pretentious aspirations it doesn't make it. I found only the male lead to be convincing. He is easily aroused by George (and who couldn't be?) I wondered if she played this film for the laughs? This is no Killing of Sister George, the actors are poor and unconvincing as a mother daughter routine. (Reid and York (albeit not a mother/daughter relationship) nailed on acting they ain't!), I hope you get the point?

The male has a lazy role and that is convincing. Lazy man getting his oats and seen as a gallant chap rather than a male predatory perv. How cinema has changed!

The story does actually have a great twist and if you must watch it then I will not reveal or spoil the outcome. I will NEVER watch this again. Hence the 1/10. Unremarkable.

Susan George shines like a star.

[jjparish · 10/10 · 22 November 2020]

What a performance. It takes some doing for a young actor to outshine 2 hollywood greats yet this is what susan george clearly does. I must admit that i only watched this film because i'm madly in awe of susans's beauty. And there are some great nude scenes. Yet this is a serious and thought provoking film. Because who is joe talking to at the end. The mother or the daughter? I like to think its the daughter. Why not. It adds nicely to the controversy.