The Greengage Summer

The Greengage Summer
Directed by	Lewis Gilbert
Written by	Rumer Godden (novel), Howard Koch (adaptation)
Starring	Kenneth More Danielle Darrieux Susannah York
Music by	Richard Addinsell
Cinematography	Freddie Young
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	April 4, 1961 (UK)
Running time	99 minutes
Language	English

The Greengage Summer (called The Loss of Innocence in the US) is a 1961 British film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Kenneth More and Susannah York, based on the novel, Greengage Summer, by Rumer Godden.

Plot

A young English girl (Susannah York in her first leading role) finds herself responsible for the care of her younger siblings one glorious summer in France when their mother is taken suddenly ill and rushed to hospital. She also finds herself, with a delicious frisson, under the approving scrutiny of a charming older man, also English, with a murky past (Kenneth More) and a stormy mistress (Danielle Darrieux) who is the patronne of the Hotel Oeillets. Set in Epernay, the Champagne region of France, it is the story of a young woman's sexual awakening. Kenneth More later named it as his favourite film: "She [Susannah York] was just twenty-one and an adorable creature...it was one of the happiest films on which I have ever worked."^[1]

Cast

• Kenneth More as Eliot
• Danielle Darrieux as Madame Zisi
• Susannah York as Joss Grey
• Claude Nollier as Madame Corbet
• Jane Asher as Hester
• Elizabeth Dear as Vicky
• Richard Williams as Wilmouse
• David Saire as Paul
• Raymond Gérôme as Renard
• Maurice Denham as Mr. Bullock
• André Maranne as M. Dutour
• Harold Kasket as M. Prideaux
• Jacques B. Brunius as M. Joubert
• Joy Shalton as Mrs. Grey

References

1. ^ Kenneth More, More or Less, Hodder & Stoughton, 1978. ISBN 0-340-22603-X

External links

• The Greengage Summer at the Internet Movie Database