THE FILM
FILM DIRECTOR: Christopher Miles
SCREENWRITER: Alan Plater
FILM STARS: Joanna Shimkus, Franco Nero, Honor Blackman, Mark Burns, Fay Compton, Maurice Denham, Kay Walsh
COUNTRY: Great Britain
THIS BOOK
AUTHOR: D.H. Lawrence
TYPE: Novella
PUBLISHER: Penguin
THIS EDITION PUBLISHED: 1972
COUNTRY: Great Britain
COVER: Paperback
THE ORIGINAL BOOK
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: As Above
YEAR FIRST PUBLISHED: 1930
ORIGINAL BOOK TITLE: The Virgin and the Gipsy
NOTES
GENRE: Period Drama
WORDS: I haven’t read the book or seen the film despite watching just about anything with Franco Nero in it. This was from his first cross over (as leading man) period when he made a few English language films (he was Vanessa Redgrave’s partner at the time and father to their child). They parted (only to marry in 2006) and he dated Catherine Deneuve, Goldie Hawn, Ursula Andress, Carroll Baker, Nathalie Delon and others and had a few kids in and out of wedlock. He plays the gypsy not the virgin in this film.
If you do any other posts featuring Colin Firth could you not do the Bridget Jones movies? The movie version…