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Tam Lin (Original title)Games and Toys (Working title)Toys and Games (Working title)Toys (Working title)The Ballad of Tam Lin (Alternative title)The Devil's Widow (Alternative title)
Date: 1970 (Copyright)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: Tom, a young man becomes trapped in a web spun for him by Mrs. Cazaret, one of the world's wealthiest and most powerful women. A young country girl competes with Mrs. Cazaret for Tom's love.

Genre:
Horror
Releases
Date: 1977Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SoundRuntime: 104 mins Length: 9360 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (33)
©: Winkast Film Productions, Filmed by: Winkast Film Productions, Presents: Commonwealth United Entertainment, Executive Producer: Henry T. Weinstein, Executive Producer: Anthony B. Unger, Produced by: Alan Ladd Jr, Stanley Mann, Associate Producer: Denis Holt, A Jerry Gershwin-Elliott Kastner picture: Jerry Gershwin, Elliott Kastner, Production Manager: Colin Brewer, Assistant Director: Kip Gowans, Continuity: Penny Daniels, Original Screenplay by ['Tam Lin']: Gerald Vaughan-Hughes, Original Screenplay by ['Ballad of TamL]: William Spier, [Based on poem 'The Ballad of Tam Lin']: Robert Burns, Director of Photography: Billy Williams, Camera Operator: David Harcourt, Film Editor: John Victor Smith, Production Designed by: Don Ashton, Art Director: John Graysmark, Assistant Art Director: Alan Tomkins, Costumes Designed by: Beatrice Dawson, Miss [Ava] Gardner's Gowns Executed by: Balmain, {Colour by}: Technicolor, {Filmed in}: Panavision UK, Music Composed and Conducted by: Stanley Myers, Songs Composed and Performed by: The Pentangle, Sound Recordist: Bill Daniels, Gordon K. McCallum, Dubbing Editor: Don Challis, Filmed at: Pinewood Studios
Cast (32)
Ava Gardner (Mrs Michaela Cazaret), Ian McShane (Tom Lynn), Cyril Cusack (Vicar Julian Ainsley), Richard Wattis (Elroy), Stephanie Beacham (Janet Ainsley), David Whitman (Oliver), Sinéad Cusack (Rose), Madeleine Smith (Sue), Fabia Drake (Miss Gibson), Jenny Hanley (Caroline), Joanna Lumley (Georgia), Pamela Farbrother (Vanna), Bruce Robinson (Alan), Salena Jones (herself), Rosemary Blake (Kate), Michael Bills (Michael), Peter Henwood (Guy), Heyward Morse (Andy), Julian Barnes (Terry), Oliver Norman (Peter), Virginia Tingwell (Lottie), Jan Dinnen, Andrew Grant, Don Hawkins, Delia Lindsay, Linda Marlowe, Michael Mundell, Yvonne Quenet, Erika Raffael, Jocelyne Sbath, Christopher Williams, Jimmy Winston (second coven)