Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
The story
British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the "go-between" for Marian, delivering secret romantic letters to Ted Burgess, a handsome neighboring farmer.
- countryside
- based on novel or book
- england
- forbidden love
- cricket
- birthday party
- norfolk
- 1900s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Julie Christie
Lady Marian Trimingham
Alan Bates
Ted Burgess
Edward Fox
Hugh Trimingham
Michael Redgrave
The Older Leo Colston
- Dominic Guard — The Young Leo Colston
- Margaret Leighton — Mrs Maudsley
- Michael Gough — Mr Maudsley
- Richard Gibson — Marcus Maudsley
- Simon Hume-Kendall — Denys
- Roger Lloyd Pack — Charles
- Amaryllis Garnett — Kate
- Keith Buckley — Stubbs
- John Rees — Blunt
- Gordon Richardson — Rector
- Jim Broadbent — Spectator at Cricket Match (uncredited)
- Directed
- Joseph Losey
- Written
- Harold Pinter
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 165 ratings
- Studio
- EMI Films
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