The Go-Between (1971 film)
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| Directed by | Joseph Losey |
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John Heyman Denis Johnson Norman Priggen |
| Screenplay by | Harold Pinter |
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The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley |
| Starring |
Julie Christie Alan Bates Margaret Leighton Edward Fox Dominic Guard |
| Music by | Michel Legrand |
| Cinematography | Gerry Fisher |
| Edited by | Reginald Beck |
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MGM-EMI Distributors (UK) Columbia Pictures (US) |
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116 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £500,000 or under $1 million |
The Go-Between is a 1971 British romantic drama film, directed by Joseph Losey. Its screenplay, by Harold Pinter, is an adaptation of the 1953 novel The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley. The film stars Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave and Dominic Guard. It won the Palme d'Or at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.
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 Marion Maudsley (Julie Christie), and finds himself a messenger, carrying messages between her and a tenant farmer neighbor, 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 Marion's mother and Leo, in search for Marion, 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, Marion, 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".
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