Girl with Green Eyes
| Girl with Green Eyes | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Desmond Davis |
| Written by | Edna O'Brien |
| Produced by | Oscar Lewenstein |
| Starring | Peter Finch Rita Tushingham Lynn Redgrave Marie Kean Arthur O'Sullivan Julian Glover |
| Cinematography | Manny Wynn |
| Edited by | Brian Smedley-Aston |
| Music by | John Addison |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | United Artists Corporation |
Release date | 10 August 1964 |
Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £140,000[1] |
Girl with Green Eyes is a 1964 British drama film, which Edna O'Brien adapted from her own novel, The Lonely Girl. It was directed by Desmond Davis, and stars Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave and Julian Glover.
Plot
In 1960s Dublin, Kate Brady (Rita Tushingham), a young rural girl, takes a room with her friend, Baba Brennan (Lynn Redgrave). Kate Brady works in a grocery shop, whereas her friend Baba in a secretarial school. One day talking a walk the two girls are invited to join a friend to go to the Dublin Mountains, where he has to deliver a dog. When they arrive in the countryside their friend looks for the people to give the dog to. Meanwhile Eugene Gaillard (Peter Finch) enters the courtyard. Kate is interested at once and asks her friend about him and discovers that he is a writer. Some time later she meets him by chance in a bookshop where she's lingering. While a romantic relationship evolves between Eugene and Kate, the social and cultural differences grow and become unbearable. Finally the difference of age, the religious divergences, make it impossible to stay together. She feels the world crashes in on her, while Eugene lets her know that it's probably the best end, and he wishes he could be younger and bursts out in tears. Lucky Kate, that she has her friend Baba, going to London, where Kate while working in a bookshop at daytime, finds the meanings of going to school at night, "where I meet different people, different men".[2]
Cast
- Rita Tushingham as Kate Brady
- Lynn Redgrave as Baba Brennan
- Peter Finch as Eugene Gaillard
- Marie Kean as Josie Hannigan
- Arthur O'Sullivan as James Brady
- Julian Glover as Malachi Sullivan
- T. P. McKenna as The Priest
- Joe Lynch as Andy Devlin
- Yolande Turner as Mary Maguire
- Harry Brogan as Jack Holland
- David Kelly as Ticket Collector