In those days, you fell in love with your own class. Or found a Go-Between.
British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the "go-between" for Marian, delivering secret romantic letters to Ted Burgess, a handsome neighboring farmer.
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Contemplative, prestige, grave and classical in form.
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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Cast
- Julie ChristieLady Marian Trimingham
- Alan BatesTed Burgess
- Edward FoxHugh Trimingham
- Michael RedgraveThe Older Leo Colston
- Dominic GuardThe Young Leo Colston
- Margaret LeightonMrs Maudsley
- Michael GoughMr Maudsley
- Richard GibsonMarcus Maudsley
- Simon Hume-KendallDenys
- Roger Lloyd PackCharles
Crew
- Joseph LoseyDirector
- Harold PinterScreenplay
- L.P. HartleyNovel
- Gerry FisherDirector of Photography
- Michel LegrandOriginal Music Composer
- Reginald BeckEditor
- John HeymanProducer
- Norman PriggenProducer
- Denis JohnsonProducer
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