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- BFI identifier297741
- Date1971-01-31 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisComedy drama. Northerner Jenny Bunn moves south for a teaching job. She lodges in the house of lascivious local Labour councillor Dick Thompson (currently up for re-election) and his long-suffering wife Martha. Jenny meets her fellow lodger's sometime boyfriend Patrick Standish, a graphics lecturer. Patrick woos Jenny but is dismayed that she attempts to preserve her old-fashioned romantic ideals, and her virginity, against his modern advances. Dick's suave, well-to-do campaign manager Julian hopes that Dick's influence will mean plans for a new airport runway will leave his impressive country mansion alone. Julian is intrigued by Patrick's relative lack of success with Jenny, and he begins to take a certain interest in her himself. Dick proves hopeless at getting the airport plans changed, and, Julian, before leaving his mansion, throws a party. At the party, Jenny will make a fateful decision which will, ironically, uncover the hidden romantic nature in one of her admirers. (Synopsis)
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- Credits
- CastHayley Mills (Jenny Bunn)
Oliver Reed (Patrick Standish)
Noel Harrison (Julian Ormerod)
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Title
Take a Girl like You (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/AB45-CD10-D091-2A3C-16B9-GCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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16mm Colour Positive - CTA - Combined - Viewing
35mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsScript - Original story: Based on a novel by Kingsley Amis - SCR-17005
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Work - 297741 - 1971-01-31 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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