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Interlude
Directed byKevin Billington
Screenplay byLee Langley
Hugh Leonard
Produced byDavid Deutsch
Jack Hanbury
StarringOskar Werner
Barbara Ferris
Virginia Maskell
CinematographyGerry Fisher
Edited byBert Bates
Music byGeorges Delerue
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Domino Films
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release dates
  • May 1968 (1968-05) (UK)
  • 2 July 1968 (1968-07-02) (NYC)
  • 15 July 1968 (1968-07-15) (USA)
Running time
113 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1,600,000 (US/ Canada)[1]

Interlude is a 1968 British drama film directed by Kevin Billington and starring Oskar Werner, Barbara Ferris and Virginia Maskell.[2]

The film is a loose remake of the 1957 American film Interlude directed by Douglas Sirk. It was Maskell's final film as she died in January 1968, five months before its release.

Production

The film was shot at Shepperton Studios and on location around London at a variety of place including the Royal Albert Hall in Kensington, Old Isleworth and the Royal Festival Hall. The Zelter family home was shot in Berkshire, and Bodiam Castle and The Mermaid Inn, Rye in East Sussex were used for filming. The film's sets were designed by art director Tony Woollard.

Singer Timi Yuro performed the title song "Interlude". Another version by Yuro was released commercially. The song was covered in 1994 as duet by Morrissey and Siouxsie Sioux.

Plot

A famous conductor gives an interview to a pretty young reporter. He speaks a bit too frankly and ends up being given an unwanted sabbatical from conducting. He begins an affair with the young reporter during his interlude, and the accumulation of differences in their ages and background begins to mount.

Cast

See also

References

  1. ^ "Big Rental Films of 1968", Variety, 8 January 1969 p 15. Please note that this is a rental figure accruing to distributors.
  2. ^ Murphy p.154

Bibliography

  • Robert Murphy. Sixties British Cinema. BFI, 1992.
  • Tom Ryan. The Films of Douglas Sirk: Exquisite Ironies and Magnificent Obsessions. University Press of Mississippi, 2019.
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