Private Road

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Private Road
Private Road.jpg
DVD cover
Directed byBarney Platts-Mills
Written byBarney Platts-Mills
Produced byBarney Platts-Mills
Andrew St. John
StarringSusan Penhaligon
Bruce Robinson
CinematographyAdam Barker-Mill
Edited byJonathan Gili
Music byDavid Dundas
Michael Feast
George Fenton
Production
company
Maya Films
Distributed byMaya Films
Release date
  • September 1971 (1971-09)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Private Road is a 1971 British drama film directed by Barney Platts-Mills and starring Susan Penhaligon and Bruce Robinson.

Plot[edit]

Peter Morrisey (Bruce Robinson) is an author who has just published his first novel. He meets receptionist Ann Halpern (Susan Penhaligon) and falls in love. They spend some time in a cottage in Scotland living an idyllic pastoral life, then return to London. Peter gets a job at an advertising agency as a copywriter. Ann becomes pregnant and Peter asks her to marry him but she refuses. To Peter's shock, Ann decides to have an abortion without talking to him about it first. After a spell in hospital Ann returns home and her father gives her a house. Peter returns to his flat alone, still thinking that he will marry Ann. With his friend Stephen, Peter breaks into an office block and steals a typewriter so he can resume his writing career.

Cast[edit]

Awards[edit]

The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival.[1]

Home media[edit]

After several years out of print it was reissued on Blu-ray and DVD by the BFI in 2011 as part of their Flipside reissue program.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Winners of the Golden Leopard". Locarno. Archived from the original on 19 July 2009. Retrieved 19 August 2012.

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