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A Kind of Loving (Original title)
Dates: 1962 (Copyright), 21 May 1962 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: John Schlesinger

Synopsis: Story of frustrated relationship and marriage between a young couple, set against the background of an industrial town in North England.

Genre:
Drama

Subjects:
Young people, Marriage, North of England
Releases
Date: 1962not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 112 mins Length: 10068 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 2017Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 112 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer

Credits (27)
Production Company: Vic Films (London), Production Company: Waterhall Productions, Production Company: Anglo Amalgamated Productions, Produced by: Joseph Janni, Associate Producer: Jack Hanbury, Production Manager: Charles Hammond, Assistant Director: Frank Ernst, Personal Assistant to Director: Miriam Brickman, Continuity: Pamela Davies, Screenplay by: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse, Adapted from the novel by: Stan Barstow, Director of Photography: Denys Coop, Camera Operator: John Harris, [Stills]: Harry Gillard, Film Editor: Roger Cherrill, Art Director: Ray Simm, Set Dresser: Maurice Fowler, Wardrobe: Laura Nightingale, Make-up: Robert Lawrence, Hair Stylist: Anne Box, Music Composed and Conducted by: Ron Grainer, Sound Recordist: George Stephenson, Bob Jones, Sound Editor: Don Sharpe, Studio: Shepperton Studios
Cast (30)
Alan Bates (Victor 'Vic' Arthur Brown), Thora Hird (Mrs Rothwell), Bert Palmer (Mr Brown), Pat Keen (Christine Brown Ellis), James Bolam (Jeff), Jack Smethurst (Conroy), Gwen Nelson (Mrs Brown), John Ronane (draughtsman), David Mahlowe (David Ellis), Patsy Rowlands (Dorothy), Michael Deacon (Les), Annette Robertson (Phoebe), Fred Ferris (Althorpe), Leonard Rossiter (Whymper), Malcolm Patton (Jim Brown), Harry Markham (Frank, the railwayman), Peter Madden (registrar), June Ritchie (Ingrid Rothwell), David Cook ([draughtsman]), Norman Heyes ([Laisterdyke]), Ruth Porcher ([Mrs Parker]), Kathy Staff ([Mrs Oliphant]), Edna Ridgway ([pub pianist]), Graham Rigby ([pub politician]), Bud Ralston ([pub comedian]), Bryan Mosley, Joe Gladwin ([bus conductor]), Jerry Desmonde ([TV compère]), Reginald Green ([TV competitor]), Douglas Livingstone ([window cleaner])