Mistress Pamela
Appearance
Mistress Pamela | |
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Directed by | Jim O'Connolly |
Written by | Jim O'Connolly |
Produced by | Jim O'Connolly |
Starring | Ann Michelle Julian Barnes Dudley Foster Anna Quayle Anthony Sharp |
Cinematography | Arthur Ibbetson |
Edited by | Fergus McDonell |
Music by | David Whitaker |
Production company | Merlot Film Productions |
Distributed by | Anglo-EMI (UK) Fanfare Films (USA) |
Release date | January 1974 (US release) |
Running time | 91 min |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Mistress Pamela is a 1974 British sex comedy drama film directed by Jim O'Connolly and starring Ann Michelle, Dudley Foster, Anna Quayle and Anthony Sharp. It was loosely based on the 1740 novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson.[1][2]
Plot
In the eighteenth century, Pamela, a servant girl in the household of Lord Devenish, must fight off the advances of her young master - a gentleman determined to have Pamela as his mistress.
Cast
- Ann Michelle - Pamela Andrews
- Julian Barnes - Lord Robert Devenish
- Dudley Foster - Jonathan
- Anna Quayle - Mrs Jelks
- Anthony Sharp - Longman
- Rosemarie Dunham - Mistress Blimper
- Derek Fowlds - Sir Percy
- Ken Parry - Parson
- Fred Emney - Dr Livesey
- Frederic Abbott - John Andrews
- Marianne Stone - Katie
Critical reception
Time Out wrote, "Richardson's 18th century classic Pamela clearly dredged up for its bawdy possibilities...About all the film has in common with the original is a notable lack of humour."[3]
References
- ^ "Mistress Pamela". BFI.
- ^ "Mistress Pamela (1974)". IMDb. 1 January 1974.
- ^ "Mistress Pamela". Time Out London.
Categories:
- 1974 films
- British films
- 1970s comedy-drama films
- 1970s historical films
- English-language films
- Films directed by Jim O'Connolly
- Films based on British novels
- British sex comedy films
- British comedy-drama films
- British historical films
- Films set in the 18th century
- 1970s British film stubs
- Comedy-drama film stubs