Sons and Lovers
The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.
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Jack Cardiff
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Facts
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Joan Collins turned down the part of Clara Dawes because her fiancé Warren Beatty thought the script was crap.
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James Dean was approached for the lead role, but his death put the project on hold for several years before filming began.
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Dean Stockwell was cast as Paul specifically at producer Jerry Wald's insistence to boost the film's US box-office appeal.
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Director Jack Cardiff was originally a cinematographer who transitioned to directing, bringing a visual style described as 'picture poetry'.
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Dean Stockwell is on good form here, as the artistically talented "Paul" who lives with his miner father "Walter" (Trevor Howard) and mother (Wendy Hiller). When tragedy strikes their local mine, she is even more determined to ensure that this son does not go down the pit - and when "Hadlock" (Ernest Thesiger) offers him an opportunity to come to London and work - it looks like he might escape this dead-end existence. His dad, however, comes home drunk and he and his wife have an altercation that makes "Paul" stay put. Is he staying to protect her, or because he is really too afraid to cut the apron strings? Jack Cardiff really does lay the foundations for this story well; a good solid cast deliver a story with plenty of simultaneously running themes. The tightly-knit family with their individual demons, trapped in an economic bubble of low income, minimal opportunities, and other people's wives. Hiller is superbly understated as the inadvertently domineering, but well meaning matriarch and though Howard features but sparingly, his presence in each scene has purpose. The title is a bit misleading - one assumes it is a romance, or some sort of Jane Austen style of story; but D.H. Lawrence has imbued these characters with a plausibility that engenders sympathy, fury and frustration from the audience. Sixty years on, this is still a potent social commentary that many families and communities may well continue to relate to.
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Jack Cardiff is the director of Sons and Lovers.
The cast of Sons and Lovers includes Donald Pleasence as Mr. Pappleworth, Trevor Howard as Walter Morel, Philip Ray as Dr Ansell, Dean Stockwell as Paul Morel, Wendy Hiller as Gertrude Morel, Susan Travers as Betty, Ernest Thesiger as Mr. Hadlock, Gwendolyn Watts as May, Anne Scott as Beatrice, Ruth Kettlewell as Mrs Bonner, Dorothy Gordon as Fanny, Rosalie Crutchley as Mrs. Leivers, and more.
The duration of Sons and Lovers is 1h 43 mins.
Yes. You can watch the Sons and Lovers trailer on this Fanbiz page on Fanziz.
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Sons and Lovers was released on 23 Jun 1960.
Sons and Lovers is listed under Drama on Fanbiz.
Sons and Lovers has 1 review on Fanziz, with an average rating of 7.0/10. One reviewer wrote: "Dean Stockwell is on good form here, as the artistically talented "Paul" who lives with his miner father "Walter" (Trevor Howard) and mother (Wendy Hiller). When tragedy strikes..."
1. Joan Collins turned down the part of Clara Dawes because her fiancé Warren Beatty thought the script was crap. 2. James Dean was approached for the lead role, but his death put the project on hold for several years before filming began. 3. Dean Stockwell was cast as Paul specifically at producer Jerry Wald's insistence to boost the film's US box-office appeal. 4. Director Jack Cardiff was originally a cinematographer who transitioned to directing, bringing a visual style described as 'picture poetry'.
