Take a Girl like You (Original title)
Date: 31 January 1971 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Jonathan Miller
Synopsis: Comedy 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.
Genres: Drama, Comedy
Subjects: Promiscuity, Virginity, Dating, Political campaigns
Releases
Date: 1969Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 98 mins Length: 8834 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Columbia Pictures Corporation
Date: 31 January 1971 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Jonathan Miller
Synopsis: Comedy 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.
Genres: Drama, Comedy
Subjects: Promiscuity, Virginity, Dating, Political campaigns
Releases
Date: 1969Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 98 mins Length: 8834 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Columbia Pictures Corporation
Credits
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Production Company: Albion Films, Producer: Hal E. Chester, Associate Producer: L.C. Rudkin, Production Manager: Denis Johnson Jr, Assistant Director: Douglas Hermes, Assistant Director: Joe Marks, Screenplay: George Melly, Original novel: Kingsley Amis, Director of Photography: Dick Bush, Editor: Jack Harris, Art Director: Jack Shampan, Set Decorator: Tim Abadie, Music: Stanley Myers, Sound Recording: Ken Ritchie, Studio: Shepperton Studios
Cast
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Hayley Mills (Jenny Bunn), Oliver Reed (Patrick Standish), Noel Harrison (Julian Ormerod), Sheila Hancock (Martha Thompson), John Bird (Dick Thompson), Aimi Macdonald (Wendy), Ronald Lacey (Graham McClintoch), Geraldine Sherman (Anna), John Fortune (television debate opponent), Imogen Hassall (Samantha, Julian's atomic-minded friend), Pippa Steel (Ted), Penelope Keith (Conservative woman at polling station), Nicholas Courtney (television debate host), George Woodbridge (Harry, landlord), Jimmy Gardner (voter), Nerys Hughes (Jenny's fellow teacher), Jean Marlow (mother), Howard Goorney (talkative man at Labour party), Jean Harrington