The Go-Between

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The Go-Between

PG,

1971,

1h 56m,

Drama

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In this period drama, British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the go-between for Marian, delivering secret romantic letters to Ted Burgess, a handsome neighboring farmer. However, when Marian becomes engaged to Hugh Trimingham, a local viscount, all their lives are altered.

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Margaret Hinxman

Daily Telegraph (UK)

Mar 11, 2020

What I saw on the screen is, I think, a masterpiece: the peak toward which Losey has been striving, experimenting, discarding and overdoing it, during 20 odd stormy years as a film-maker.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Jul 7, 2018

3.5/4

Joseph Losey's The Go-Between is about class distinction and its warping effect upon the life of one small boy... Losey and his screenwriter, Harold Pinter, are terribly observant about small nuances of class.

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David Elliott

Chicago Daily News

Oct 3, 2023

The Go-Between, taken from L.P. Hartley's novel, is also facile but in the best sense, and more a work of genuine sensitivity. It's a vignette, nothing more -- but of the kind that changes a man's life forever.

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Brian Viner

Daily Mail (UK)

Apr 25, 2020

4/5

[A] powerful coming-of-age story.

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Amber Wilkinson

Eye for Film

Oct 3, 2019

4/5

Both Losey and Pinter are less interested in the romance itself than in the way its illicit nature exposes the class divide.

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Rob Aldam

Backseat Mafia

Sep 16, 2019

A script which feels both authentic and slightly edgy.

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Albus M

Oct 31, 2018

One of the world's great films.

Rey S

May 19, 2018

Other than the cricket and the end of the film that just said "END", I did not enjoy this one because it was tedious and boring.

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Joseph Losey

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Julie Christie

Marian

Alan Bates

Ted Burgess

Dominic Guard

`'Leo'` Colston

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Synopsis

In this period drama, British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the go-between for Marian, delivering secret romantic letters to Ted Burgess, a handsome neighboring farmer. However, when Marian becomes engaged to Hugh Trimingham, a local viscount, all their lives are altered.

Director: Joseph Losey
Producer: John Heyman, Norman Priggen
Screenwriter: Harold Pinter
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Production Co: EMI Films Ltd., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 29, 1971, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 28, 2010
Runtime: 1h 56m

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