Themes: Infidelity, Scandals and Cover-Ups, Home From the War
Main Cast: Joely Richardson, Sean Bean, James Wilby, Shirley Ann Field
Release Year: 1992
Country: UK
Run Time: 205 minutes
Plot
Another of writer/director Ken Russell's D.H. Lawrence adaptations, Lady Chatterley (an amalgam of three Lawrence novels) was first shown as a British TV miniseries on BBC1 from June 6 to 27, 1993. In recounting the familiar details of young, bored Lady Chatterley (Joely Richardson), her elderly, infirm husband (James Wilby), and her hot-blooded stable-groom lover, Manners (Sean Bean), Russell took the opportunity to both celebrate and savage the British upper classes of the 1920s. One brief sequence of full frontal nudity caused a minor scandal in Britain, though by Ken Russell standards the scene was a model of taste and decorum. After its initial TV run, Lady Chatterley was edited down from 220 to 110 minutes and released theatrically in the United States. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Ben Aris - Tommy Dukes; Brian Blessed - Petty Officer; Gary Crosby - Saxophonist; P.J. Davidson - Gamekeeper; Soo Drouet - Mrs. Flint; Frank Grimes - Mr. Linley; Roger Hammond - Duke of Oaklands; Pat Keen - Mrs. Mellors; Breffini McKenna - Donald Forbes; Judith Paris - Mrs. Marshall; Molly Russell - Molly; Rupert Russell - Rupert; David Sterne - Field; Michael Turner - Rector Asby; Melanie Hughes - Simpson; Ken Russell - Sir Michael Reid; Hetty Baynes - Hilda
Credit
Malcolm Stone - Art Director, Evangeline Harrison - Costume Designer, Ken Russell - Director, Robert Haggiag - Executive Producer, Barry Hanson - Executive Producer, Johan Eliasch - Executive Producer, Robert Heggiag - Executive Producer, Jean-Claude Petit - Composer (Music Score), Ken Russell - Camera Operator, Robin Vidgeon - Cinematographer, Ronaldo Vasconcellos - Producer, Michael Haggiag - Producer, Ken Russell - Screenwriter, Michael Haggiag - Screenwriter, D.H. Lawrence - Book Author
Lady Chatterley is a 1993BBCTV movie. It is an adaption of D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover. A young woman's husband returns wounded after the First World War. Facing a life with a husband now incapable of sexual activity she begins an affair with the groundskeeper. The film reflect's Lawrence's focus not only on casting away sexual taboos but also the examination of the class system prevalent in early twentieth century Britain.
The film's opening credits state it is based on the "novels" by D.H. Lawrence. As the novel existed in three separate complete versions, this may mean the screenplay borrows material from all three versions of the novel. The first two versions are entitled The First Lady Chatterley and John Thomas and Lady Jane. There are significant differences in plot and characterization between the three versions.
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