the go-between

Director: joseph losey

Actor: julie christie,alan bates,dominic guard,margaret leighton

Data Published: Fri Jun 18 1971

Genres: Drama,Romance

Key Words: bare chested male,hairy chest,manipulative female,romantic triangle,facts of life

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067144/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Go-Between_(1971_film)

Description: The Go-Between is a movie starring Julie Christie, Alan Bates, and Dominic Guard. A tale of torrid and forbidden love between a couple in the English countryside.

Plot: The story follows a young boy named Leo Colston (Dominic Guard), who in the year 1900 is a guest of his wealthy school friend, Marcus Maudsley (Richard Gibson), to spend the summer holidays at his family's Norfolk country house. While there, Marcus is taken sick and quarantined with the measles. Left to entertain himself, Leo befriends Marcus's beautiful elder sister Marian Maudsley (Julie Christie), and finds himself a messenger, carrying messages between her and a tenant farmer neighbour, Ted Burgess (Alan Bates), with whom she is engaging in a secret illicit affair. Her parents, however want to engage her to Hugh, Viscount Trimingham (played by Edward Fox) the estate owner. A heatwave leading to a thunderstorm coincides with Leo's birthday party and the film's climax, when Marian's mother and Leo, in search for Marian, find her making love with Burgess in a farm building. This event has a long-lasting impact on Leo after Burgess shoots himself in his farmhouse kitchen. More than fifty years later, Marian, now the Dowager Lady Trimingham, sends for Leo, wanting him to speak to her grandson to assure him that she had truly loved Burgess. She asks Leo whether her grandson reminds him of anyone, and he replies "Yes. Ted Burgess". Michael Redgrave plays Leo in old age. Pinter's screenplay for the film was his final collaboration with Losey, following The Servant (1963) and Accident (1967). It is largely faithful to the novel, although it alludes to the novel's opening events in dialogue, in which Leo is admired by other boys at his school as they believe he used black magic to punish two bullies, and also moves events described in the novel's epilogue into the central narrative.[citation needed]