Directed by:
Joseph LoseyScreenplay:
Janet GreenCinematography:
Jack HildyardComposer:
Hans MayCast:
Melina Mercouri, Flora Robson, Patrick McGoohan, Helen Haye, Laurence Naismith, Nigel Green, Ellen Pollock, Catherine Feller, Keith Michell, Mervyn Johns (more)Plots(1)
One of the most unusual and atypical films in Joseph Losey's filmography is this unfettered period drama narrating the stormy relationship between an English aristocrat and a young gypsy girl determined to marry him for his fortune. Greek cinema's leading star Melina Mercouri plays a female character whose subversive leverage was all of a novelty in the British films of the time. (San Sebastian International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Melina Mercouri
Greece
Best movies:
He Who Must Die (1957)
The Victors (1963)
The Law (1959)
Flora Robson
UK
Best movies:
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Romeo and Juliet (1954)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Patrick McGoohan
USA
Best movies:
Braveheart (1995)
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
The Dam Busters (1955)
Helen Haye
India
Best movies:
Richard III (1955)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Hobson's Choice (1954)
Laurence Naismith
UK
Best movies:
Lust for Life (1956)
Cleopatra (1963)
Man with a Million (1954)
Nigel Green
South Africa
Best movies:
Reach for the Sky (1956)
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
The League of Gentlemen (1960)
Ellen Pollock
German Empire
Best movies:
Rapture (1965)
Piccadilly (1929)
The Wicked Lady (1983)
Catherine Feller
Best movies:
The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)
The Girl with a Pistol (1968)
Waltz of the Toreadors (1962)
Keith Michell
Australia
Best movies:
My Brother Tom (1986) (TV movie)
Captain James Cook (1987) (series)
Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972)
Mervyn Johns
UK
Best movies:
Romeo and Juliet (1954)
Moby Dick (1956)
Never Let Go (1960)
Newton Blick
UK
Best movies:
Anastasia (1956)
Term of Trial (1962)
Lord Jim (1965)
Lyndon Brook
USA
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
Reach for the Sky (1956)
Plenty (1985)
Howard Greene
UK
Best movies:
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
Only Two Can Play (1962)
Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)
Gladys Boot
UK
Best movies:
Man with a Million (1954)
The Blue Lagoon (1949)
John Salew
UK
Best movies:
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Edna Morris
UK
Best movies:
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
Stage Fright (1950)
Another Man's Poison (1951)
Brian Wilde
UK
Best movies:
You Only Live Twice (1967)
A Tale of Two Cities (1958)
The Square Peg (1958)
Larry Taylor
UK
Best movies:
Cleopatra (1963)
The Last Valley (1971)
Masters of Venus (1962)