DramaRomance

A Kind of Loving

- A kind of loving that knew no wrong until it was too late!

As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him.

Release Date : 1962-04-12

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Vic Films ProductionsJoseph Janni ProductionWaterhall Productions

Production Country : United Kingdom

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Victor Arthur 'Vic' Brown

Original Name : Alan Bates

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ingrid Rothwell

Original Name : June Ritchie

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mrs. Rothwell

Original Name : Thora Hird

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mr. Geoffrey Brown

Original Name : Bert Palmer

Gender : Male

Character Name : Christine Harris

Original Name : Pat Keen

Gender : Female

Character Name : Jeff

Original Name : James Bolam

Gender : Male

Character Name : Conroy

Original Name : Jack Smethurst

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Brown

Original Name : Gwen Nelson

Gender : Female

Character Name : Draughtsman

Original Name : John Ronane

Gender : Male

Character Name : David Harris

Original Name : David Mahlowe

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dorothy

Original Name : Patsy Rowlands

Gender : Female

Character Name : Les

Original Name : Michael Deacon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Phoebe

Original Name : Annette Robertson

Gender : Female

Character Name : Althorpe

Original Name : Fred Ferris

Gender : Male

Character Name : Whymper

Original Name : Leonard Rossiter

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jim Brown

Original Name : Malcolm Patton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Railwayman

Original Name : Harry Markham

Gender : Male

Character Name : Registrar

Original Name : Peter Madden

Gender : Male

Character Name : Laisterdyke (uncredited)

Original Name : Norman Heyes

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bus Conductor (uncredited)

Original Name : Bryan Mosley

Gender : Male

Character Name : Barmaid (uncredited)

Original Name : Yvonne Buckingham

Gender : Female

Character Name : Draughtsman (uncredited)

Original Name : David Cook

Gender : Male

Character Name : TV Compère (uncredited)

Original Name : Jerry Desmonde

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ingrid's Friend (uncredited)

Original Name : Helen Fraser

Gender : Female

Character Name : Bus Driver (uncredited)

Original Name : Joe Gladwin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Contestant (uncredited)

Original Name : Reginald Green

Gender : Male

Character Name : Window Cleaner (uncredited)

Original Name : Douglas Livingstone

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dr. Parker (uncredited)

Original Name : Ruth Porcher

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pub Comedian (uncredited)

Original Name : Bud Ralston

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pub Pianist (uncredited)

Original Name : Edna Ridgway

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pub Politician (uncredited)

Original Name : Graham Rigby

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Oliphant (uncredited)

Original Name : Kathy Staff

Gender : Female

Character Name : Woman in Dinner Queue (uncredited)

Original Name : Kathleen Walker

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pub Patron (uncredited)

Original Name : Fred Wood

Gender : Male

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2024-04-01

I can't say I was ever a great fan of Alan Bates, but he's really quite good in this - for the time - almost raunchy romantic drama. He is factory worker "Vic" who takes a bit of a shine to the shy "Ingrid" (June Ritchie) - well, she takes more of a shine to him, actually. What now ensues is a sort top-of-the-bus courtship, a movie, a snog on the beach and then... She becomes pregnant, a shotgun wedding follows and thought the pair do genuinely like one another, it's clear that there's some rather unpleasant writing on the wall. He's an ambitious character. His traditional working class roots are ones he wants to leave behind. His new family status makes him feel trapped and hemmed in. His future somehow snatched away from him. Needless to say, his character changes and that sets him at odds with his new wife - and with her mother (Thora Hird) who lives with them and rarely misses an opportunity to make her presence felt. How long can he tolerate this self-made scenario before something has to give? Bates convinces as his increasingly frustrated persona as does Ritchie whose character finds herself increasingly ostracised from an husband she loves but doesn't understand. Hird features sparingly but actually offers quite a cleverly constructed characterisation of either the interfering mother-in-law or the caring and responsible parent. That all depends on your perspective and though the story is definitely told from that of "Vic", I think John Schlesinger leaves enough ambiguity of loyalty for the audience to deal with. Though there's little graphic here that might have offended in 1962, the subject matter does challenge the ingrained societal approaches to marriage, to choice and to aspiration in quite a potent fashion and presents us here with a story that does take it's time to get going - but then, so do most romances!