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The Go-Between is a British film of genre Drama directed by Joseph Losey released in USA on 13 november 1971 with Julie Christie
The Go-Between (1971)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 13 november 1971
Length 1h58
Directed by Joseph Losey
OriginUnited-kingdom
Themes Le thème des vacances
Rating71%
The Go-Between is a 1971 British romantic drama film, directed by Joseph Losey. Its screenplay, by Harold Pinter, is an adaptation of the 1953 novel The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley. The film stars Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave and Dominic Guard. It won the Palme d'Or at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.
Synopsis
The story follows a young boy named Leo Colston (Dominic Guard), who in the year 1900 is invited by a school friend, Marcus Maudsley (Richard Gibson), to spend the summer holidays at a Norfolk country house occupied by his family. While Leo is there, Marcus is taken sick, and Leo finds himself becoming a messenger (go-between) carrying messages between Marcus's older sister, Marian Maudsley (Julie Christie), and a farmer neighbour, Ted Burgess (Alan Bates) with whom she is secretly in love. However, her parents want her to become engaged to the owner of the house and estate, Hugh, Viscount Trimingham (played by Edward Fox). A heatwave leads to a thunderstorm, which coincides with Leo's birthday party and the climax of the film, when Marion's mother and Leo find Marion and Burgess making love in an outbuilding. This event has a long-lasting impact on Leo, and Burgess shoots himself with his own gun in his farmhouse kitchen.Actors
Julie Christie
(Lady Marian Trimingham)
Alan Bates
(Ted Burgess)
Margaret Leighton
(Mrs Maudsley)
Edward Fox
(Hugh Trimingham)
Dominic Guard
(The Young Leo Colston)
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