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Name: The Go-Between
Released: 1971-7-29
Cast: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave

The Go-Between

PG
1h 56m
1971

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A turn-of-the-century romantic drama, The Go-Between recounts the secret love affair between a beautiful heiress, Marion (Julie Christie), and the poor tenant farmer, Ted Burgess (Alan Bates). The "go-between" in the romance between Marion and Ted is a twelve-year-old boy (Dominic Guard) who unwittingly allows himself to be used as their message bearer. Eventually, Marion's mother (Margaret Leighton) discovers the ruse. And after she precipitates a shocking confrontation, the emotional experience of being caught up in a doomed love affair leaves a lasting scar on the young boy's life.

Director:

Joseph Losey

Producer:

John Heyman, Denis Johnson, Norman Priggen

Writer:

Harold Pinter, L.P. Hartley

Cast:

Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

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Reviews

Chicago Daily News

David Elliott

The Go-Between, taken from L.P. Hartley's novel, is also facile but in the best sense, and more a work of genuine sensitivity. It's a vignette, nothing more -- but of the kind that changes a man's life forever.

[A] powerful coming-of-age story.

What I saw on the screen is, I think, a masterpiece: the peak toward which Losey has been striving, experimenting, discarding and overdoing it, during 20 odd stormy years as a film-maker.

Both Losey and Pinter are less interested in the romance itself than in the way its illicit nature exposes the class divide.

A script which feels both authentic and slightly edgy.

September 16, 2019

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