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Darling (Original title)
Dates: 1965 (Copyright), 17 October 1965 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: John Schlesinger

Synopsis: A beautiful amoral girl sacrifices everything and everybody to the satisfaction of her whims, but at the end she is trapped in a loveless marriage.

Genre:
Drama

Subjects:
London, Relationships, Advertising
Releases
Date: 1965Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 16mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 127 mins Length: 11458 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 1965Country: United KingdomRelease type: UnreleasedFormat: 16mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 5 mins
Date: February 2019Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 128 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer

Credits (34)
©: Appia Films, Production Company: Vic Films, A Joseph Jianni production/Produced by: Joseph Janni, Associate Producer: Victor Lyndon, Unit Manager: Ed Harper, Location Manager: Mara Blasetti, Assistant Director: Kip Gowans, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: Stuart A. Black, Continuity: Ann Skinner, Casting Director: Miriam Brickman, Screenplay by: Frederic Raphael, [Script Collaborator]: Troy Kennedy Martin, Based on an idea by: Frederic Raphael, Based on an idea by: John Schlesinger, Joseph Janni, Director of Photography: Ken Higgins, Camera Operator: John Harris, Assistant Cameraman: Bernard Ford, Graphic Design: Ted Southcott, Film Editor: James Clark, Art Director: Ray Simm, Set Decorator: David Ffolkes, Wardrobe Designer: Julie Harris, Wardrobe Mistress: Jackie Breed, Make-up Artist: Bob Lawrence, Hair Stylist: Joyce James, Processed at: Humphries Laboratories, Music Composed and Conducted by: John Dankworth, Sound Recordist: Peter Handford, John Aldred, Sound Editor: Malcolm Cooke, Sound System: Westrex Recording System, Made at: Shepperton Studios
Cast (39)
Dirk Bogarde (Robert Gold), Laurence Harvey (Miles Brand), Julie Christie (Diana Scott), José Luis de Vilallonga (Prince Cesare Della Romita), Roland Curram (Malcolm), Basil Henson (Alec Prosser-Jones), Helen Lindsay (Felicity Prosser-Jones), Carlo Palmucci (Curzio), Dante Posani (Gino), Umberto Raho (Paolucci), Marika Rivera (Paris party woman), Alex Scott (Sean Martin), Ernst Walder (Kurt), Brian Wilde (Basil Willett), Pauline Yates (Estelle Gold), Peter Bayliss (Lord Alex Grant), Richard Bidlake (Rupert Crabtree), Trevor Bowen (Tony Bridges, first husband), Annette Carbell (Billie Castiglione), Jean Claudio (Raoul Maxim), Georgina Cookson (Carlotta Hale), James Cossins (Basildon charity M.C.), Jane Downes (Julie), Hugo Dyson (Walter Southgate), David Harrison (Charles Glass), Irene Richmond (Mrs Glass), Ann Firbank (Sybil Martin), Tyler Butterworth (William Prosser-Jones), Angus Mackay (Ivor Dawlish), Margaret Gordon (Helen Dawlish), John Schlesinger (theatre director), Vernon Dobtcheff, Christopher Greatorex (art critic), Brian Moorehead (Leslie Page), Helen Stirling (governess to Cesare family), John Woodvine (customs officer), Jane Pearl (Jane), Ray Lovelock, Silvia Dionisio