Main Cast: Lee Carter, Emma Forbes, Nelly Hanham, Theresa Watson, Malcolm McDowell, Nanette Newman, Georgia Brown, Bernard Lee, Gerald Sim
Release Year: 1971
Country: UK
Run Time: 110 minutes
Plot
Malcom McDowell, who went on to play a chillingly heartless young man in A Clockwork Orange, here plays Bruce, a cheerful young athlete and aspiring writer whose injuries get the better of him on the evening of his colorless brother's wedding. He loses the use of his legs and is sent to a home for the handicapped. As a result of his disability, his attitude undergoes a profound change, and he becomes a surly, resentful and difficult young man. At the home, he meets a young woman (Nanette Newman) whose disability has lasted much longer than his, and they fall in love. They become engaged, but she dies before they can get married. While this sounds relentlessly melancholy, the heart of the movie is the way in which each of the two has enriched the life of the other, and the movie is a good deal more upbeat than it sounds. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
Michael Flanders - Clarence Marlow; Geoffrey Bayldon - Mr. Latbury; Norman Bird - Dr. Mathews; William Boyle - Trainer; Ishaq Bux - Pakistani; Constance Chapman - Mrs. Mathews; Christopher Chittell - Terry; Sylvia Coleridge - Celia; Paul Darrow - Doctor; Aimée Delamain - Alice; Anne Dyson - Gladys' Mother; Sarah Forbes - Bridesmaid; Barry Jackson - Bill; Michael Lees - Geoffrey; Petra Markham - Mary; Margery Mason - Matron; John Savident - Fete Guest; Patsy Smart - Bruce's Mother; Marianne Stone - 1st Nurse; Norman Tyrrell - Gladys' Father; Geoffrey Whitehead - Harold; Brook Williams - Hugh Collins; Richard Moore - Arnold Foster; Jack Woolgar - Bruce's Father; Michael Nightingale - Mr. Thomas; George Hilsdon - George; Lee Carter - Wedding Singer; Emma Forbes - Bridesmaids; Nelly Hanham - Margaret; Theresa Watson - Gladys
Credit
Robert Jones - Art Director, Laurel Staffell - Costume Designer, Bryan Forbes - Director, Timothy Gee - Editor, Stanley Myers - Composer (Music Score), Macaulay Cook-Greenway - Composer (Music Score), Macaulay Cook-Greenway - Songwriter, Tony Imi - Cinematographer, Bruce Cohn Curtis - Producer, Roger Cook - Singer, Bruce Sharman - Supervisor/Manager, Bryan Forbes - Screenwriter, Peter Marshall - Screenwriter, Peter Marshall - Book Author
