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Tag Archives: Rita Tushingham
Diamonds for Breakfast (1968) Christopher Morahan, Marcello Mastroianni, Rita Tushingham, Elaine Taylor
The rightful heir to the Russian Imperial Jewels recruits a ragtag team Read More »
The Bed Sitting Room (1969) Richard Lester, Rita Tushingham, Ralph Richardson, Peter Cook
Set in post-nuclear-holocaust England, where a handful of bizarre characters struggle Read More »
The Guru (1969) James Ivory, Rita Tushingham, Michael York, Utpal Dutt
Britain’s top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the sitar Read More »
Resurrected (1989) Paul Greengrass, Tom Bell, Rita Tushingham, David Thewlis
True story of a British soldier (David Thewlis), who is left behind in the Falklands after the war with Argentina. Read More »
Under the Skin (1997) Carine Adler, Samantha Morton, Claire Rushbrook, Rita Tushingham
Although married and pregnant Rose has always been Mother’s favorite, it is younger sister Iris whose life is shaken up by Mother’s death. Read More »
A Place to Go (1963) Basil Dearden, Rita Tushingham, Michael Sarne, Bernard Lee
Amidst the pub sing-songs and bombsites and with slums giving way to high-rise flats Read More »
Girl with Green Eyes (1964) Desmond Davis, Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave
An awkward young Irish farm girl Kate Brady moves to Dublin and shares a room with funny Read More »
Smashing Time (1967) Desmond Davis, Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave, Michael York
Two young women from England’s northern counties; the plain Brenda and the flamboyant Yvonne, arrive in London to find fame and fortune. Read More »
The Trap (1966) Sidney Hayers, Rita Tushingham, Oliver Reed, Rex Sevenoaks, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
A fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.
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A Taste of Honey (1961) Tony Richardson, Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens, Drama
Black and white, gay and straight, mothers and daughters, class, and coming of age. Jo is working class, in her teens, living with her drunk and libidinous mother in northern England. When mom marries impulsively, Jo is out on the streets; she and Geoffrey, a gay co worker who’s adrift himself, find a room together. Then Jo finds herself pregnant after a one night stand with Jimmy, a Black sailor. Geoffrey takes over the preparations for the baby’s birth, and becomes, in effect, the child’s father. The three of them seem to have things sorted out when Jo’s mother reappears on the scene, assertive and domineering. Which “family” will emerge?
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The Knack… and How to Get It (1965) Richard Lester, Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks, Michael Crawford, Comedy
In England, the times are a changing: it’s mods and rockers. On the day Nancy gets off the London train, cases in hand, looking for the YWCA, Colin has had enough of missing out on the sexual revolution. He begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal Tolen to teach him ‘the knack’ – how to score with women. Serendipitously, Colin and his new lodger Tom meet up with Nancy while Colin’s buying a bed larger than Tolen’s. The three hit it off, but their simple fun ends when Tolen meets Nancy. Colin is jealous but impotent, and Tolen both attracts and repels her. She swoons, wonders what happened, and cries ‘rape.’ Impish serendipity rubs against unsettling ambiguity; Tolen bolts.
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