THE VIRGIN AND THE GYPSY (1970)

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.