A savage story of lust and ambition
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
- Sexual violence
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
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Cast
- Laurence HarveyJoe Lampton
- Simone SignoretAlice Aisgill
- Heather SearsSusan Brown
- Donald WolfitMr. Brown
- Donald HoustonCharles Soames
- Hermione BaddeleyElspeth
- Beatrice VarleyAunt
- Allan CuthbertsonGeorge Aisgill
- Raymond HuntleyMr. Hoylake
- John WestbrookJack Wales
Crew
- Jack ClaytonDirector
- Neil PatersonScreenplay
- Mordecai RichlerWriter
- John BraineNovel
- Freddie FrancisDirector of Photography
- Mario NascimbeneOriginal Music Composer
- Ralph KemplenEditor
- James WoolfProducer
- John WoolfProducer
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