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A woman faces life in a shabby, suburban bed-sit after being jilted and left pregnant. Sharing her desperation with an assortment of neighbours, they help her to decide whether to have an abortion, in a sensitive study of social morals at the dawning of the Sixties sexual revolution. Read more
| Starring | Cicely Courtneidge, Brock Peters, Leslie Caron, Tom Bell |
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| Director | Bryan Forbes |
| Genres | Drama |
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A woman faces life in a shabby, suburban bed-sit after being jilted and left pregnant. Sharing her desperation with an assortment of neighbours, they help her to decide whether to have an abortion, in a sensitive study of social morals at the dawning of the Sixties sexual revolution.
| Starring | Cicely Courtneidge, Brock Peters, Leslie Caron, Tom Bell, Pat Phoenix |
|---|---|
| Director | Bryan Forbes |
| Studio | ELEVATION |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1962 To Rent: DVD: 04 Jun 2007 |
A queasy sample of the 'new British realism' of the early '60s, based on a novel by Lynne Reid Banks, with Caron as a... read more on Time Out
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Book was better
I read and enjoyed Lynne Reid Banks 'The L-Shaped Room' and enjoyed it so I thought I'd watch the film as well. The story has been changed so much ... read more »
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thank heaven for naughty girls
A reasonable time capsule of the social and moral pressures on unwed mothers in the late 50's and into the early 60's.
Leslie Caron is ... read more »
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What was all the fuss about?
I seem to remember a lot of hype and disapproval at the time this was on first release, but this seems quite a sad and gentle view of the time it was set in. A ... read more »
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All a bit faded now
Lynne Reid Banks' novel is a great read,evocative or time, place and attitudes, but this film of it doesn't remotely come up to the mark. In the main, ... read more »