The Go-Between (film)
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| Directed by | Joseph Losey |
| Produced by | John Heyman Denis Johnson |
| Screenplay by | Harold Pinter |
| Based on | The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley |
| Starring | Julie Christie Alan Bates Margaret Leighton Edward Fox |
| Music by | Michel Legrand |
| Cinematography | Gerry Fisher |
| Editing by | Reginald Beck |
| Distributed by | EMI Films (UK) Columbia Pictures (USA) |
| Release date(s) | December 1970 (UK) November 13, 1971 (USA) |
| Running time | 118 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
The Go-Between is Harold Pinter's 1970 film adaptation of the novel by L. P. Hartley. A British production directed by Joseph Losey, it stars Dominic Guard (in the title role of Leo Colston), Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave, Michael Gough and Edward Fox.
Pinter's screenplay—his final collaboration with Losey, following The Servant (1963) and Accident (1967)[1]—is largely faithful to the novel, though it alludes to the novel's opening events in dialogue and incorporates events described in the novel's epilogue within the central narrative.[citation needed]
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[edit] Location
The film was shot at Melton Constable, Heydon and Norwich in Norfolk.[2]
[edit] Music
Michel Legrand composed the soundtrack for the film.
[edit] Honours and awards
The film won the Grand Prix at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.[3]
Margaret Leighton earned an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film.
In 1999 it was included on the British Film Institute's list of the 100 best British films.
[edit] Cast
- Julie Christie - Lady Marian Trimingham
- Edward Fox - Hugh Trimingham
- Alan Bates - Ted Burgess
- Margaret Leighton - Mrs. Maudsley
- Michael Redgrave - Leo Colston
- Dominic Guard - Leo Colston
- Michael Gough - Mr. Maudsley
- Richard Gibson - Marcus Maudsley
- Simon Hume-Kendall - Denys
- Roger Lloyd-Pack - Charles
- Amaryllis Garnett - Kate
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ Nick James (2007-06-27). "Joseph Losey & Harold Pinter: In Search of PoshLust Times". BFI. British Film Institute. http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/49543. Retrieved 2009-06-19. "From Venetian decadence and British class war to Proustian time games, the films of Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter gave us a new, ambitious, high-culture kind of art film, says Nick James."
- ^ http://www.oldcity.org.uk/norwich/film/gobetween.php
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Go-Between". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2417/year/1971.html. Retrieved 2009-04-12.
[edit] Further reading
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Billington, Michael. Harold Pinter. 2nd ed. London: Faber and Faber, 2007. ISBN 978-0-571-23476-9. [Updated ed. of The Life and Work of Harold Pinter (London: Faber, 1996).]
Gale, Steven H. Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. ISBN 0-8131-2244-9.
–––,ed. The Films of Harold Pinter. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2001. ISBN 0-7914-4932-7.
[edit] External links
- "Films by Harold Pinter: The Go Between 1966" – At HaroldPinter.org: The Official Website of the International Playwright Harold Pinter.
- The Go-Between at the Internet Movie Database.
- "Harold Pinter & Joseph Losey", by Jamie Andrews, Harold Pinter Archive Blog, British Library, 15 June 2009.
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