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The Hireling is a British film of genre Drama directed by Alan Bridges released in USA on 10 june 1973 with Robert Shaw
The Hireling (1973)
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Add to a movie listThe Hireling is a 1973 British drama film directed by Alan Bridges, based on a 1957 novel by LP Hartley, which starred Robert Shaw and Sarah Miles. It tells the story of a chauffeur who falls in love with an aristocratic woman.
It shared the Grand Prix with Scarecrow at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival. Sarah Miles received a Special Jury Prize for he performance as Lady Franklin.
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Set in and around Bath, Somerset, immediately after the First World War, the story opens at an expensive mental clinic in the country where the young and recently widowed Lady Franklin is being discharged. The owner of a smart hire car, former sergeant-major Ledbetter, chauffeurs her to her unsympathetic mother in Bath. Hired to take her on outings, he becomes the only person she can talk to as she slowly lifts out of deep depression.Actors
Robert Shaw
(Steven Ledbetter)
Sarah Miles
(Lady Franklin)
Peter Egan
(Captain Hugh Cantrip)
Caroline Mortimer
(Connie)
Elizabeth Sellars
(Lady Franklin's mother)
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