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Genres:
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Drama /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Robert Aldrich
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Actors:
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Cyril Delevanti,
Coral Browne,
Patricia Medina,
Ronald Fraser,
William Beckley,
Hugh Paddick,
Sivi Aberg,
Elaine Church,
Beryl Reid,
Susannah York
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Duration:
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138 min.
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Rating:
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(7/10)113.5
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Plot Summary:
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In Robert Aldrich's taboo-shattering reworking of Unchecked Morse's play, June (Beryl Reed) is a lesbian who plays the renounce of a nun, Sister George, on a prospering television soap opera. Her world collapses when the reveal's executive principal, Humanity Croft (Coral Browne), decides to kill postponed June's character. As she searches for another acting assignment, she begins to obloquy her lover, Alice (Susannah York), and spirals into a self-dangerous free dive. The precociously unrestricted and sultry depiction of June's sexuality earned the film an X rating in uncountable places upo... n its initial release. All the same time has muted the once-controversial aspects of THE Windfall OF SISTER GEORGE, it remains a historically thunderous dusting, offering the first Hollywood depiction of a maiden completely at ease with her love of other women. Reid turns in a brave and working performance, infusing this historic of lesbian cinema with an enduring, humane lustre.
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The Killing of Sister George
Heavily handled fog version of an amusing and effective entertainment; the whole shooting match is clumsily spelt out, including the love scenes, and the actresses are forced to recapitulate themselves.
The Killing of Sister George
Bet Lynch wouldn't have stood for this class of brutality when she left Coronation Byway someone's cup of tea. An ageing actress is fired arbitrarily and her proper killed eccentric from a TV serial. She takes to the starch as her young female acquaintance (Susannah York) is seduced from her by a opposition. Forthright Marcus's heart-rending play is not so much touched as bruised on Robert Aldrich's heavy-handed instruction, which alienated the actresses during shooting, was disliked but which still reflects the compulsive sadism he brought to touch on on What In any case Happened to Tot Jane?. A fascinating, if flawed, look at relationships so cramped they're weirdly sympathetic, especially as our loyalties swing to dominant Beryl Reid from the uninteresting ravenousn...
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