Drama

Sons and Lovers

- You'll never forget the young lovers in...

The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.

Release Date : 1960-08-29

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : 20th Century Fox

Production Country : United Kingdom

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Clara Dawes

Original Name : Mary Ure

Gender : Female

Character Name : Walter Morel

Original Name : Trevor Howard

Gender : Male

Character Name : Paul Morel

Original Name : Dean Stockwell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gertrude Morel

Original Name : Wendy Hiller

Gender : Female

Character Name : Miriam Leivers

Original Name : Heather Sears

Gender : Female

Character Name : William Morel

Original Name : William Lucas

Gender : Male

Character Name : Baxter Dawes

Original Name : Conrad Phillips

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mr. Hadlock

Original Name : Ernest Thesiger

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mr. Pappleworth

Original Name : Donald Pleasence

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Leivers

Original Name : Rosalie Crutchley

Gender : Female

Character Name : Arthur Morel

Original Name : Sean Barrett

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Radford

Original Name : Elizabeth Begley

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mrs Anthony

Original Name : Edna Morris

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mrs Bonner

Original Name : Ruth Kettlewell

Gender : Female

Character Name : Rose

Original Name : Anne Sheppard

Gender : Male

Character Name : Betty

Original Name : Susan Travers

Gender : Female

Character Name : Louisa

Original Name : Rosalie Ashley

Gender : Male

Character Name : Fanny

Original Name : Dorothy Gordon

Gender : Female

Character Name : Connie

Original Name : Vilma Ann Leslie

Gender : Female

Character Name : Beatrice

Original Name : Anne Scott

Gender : Male

Character Name : Emma

Original Name : Patsy Smart

Gender : Female

Character Name : May

Original Name : Gwendolyn Watts

Gender : Female

Character Name : Dr Ansell

Original Name : Philip Ray

Gender : Male

Character Name : Comedian

Original Name : Trevor Little

Gender : Male

Character Name : Polly

Original Name : Sheila Bernette

Gender : Female

Reviews

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@Geronimo1967

2022-04-04

Dean Stockwell is on good form here, as the artistically talented "Paul" who lives with his miner father "Walter" (Trevor Howard) and mother (Wendy Hiller). When tragedy strikes their local mine, she is even more determined to ensure that this son does not go down the pit - and when "Hadlock" (Ernest Thesiger) offers him an opportunity to come to London and work - it looks like he might escape this dead-end existence. His dad, however, comes home drunk and he and his wife have an altercation that makes "Paul" stay put. Is he staying to protect her, or because he is really too afraid to cut the apron strings? Jack Cardiff really does lay the foundations for this story well; a good solid cast deliver a story with plenty of simultaneously running themes. The tightly-knit family with their individual demons, trapped in an economic bubble of low income, minimal opportunities, and other people's wives. Hiller is superbly understated as the inadvertently domineering, but well meaning matriarch and though Howard features but sparingly, his presence in each scene has purpose. The title is a bit misleading - one assumes it is a romance, or some sort of Jane Austen style of story; but D.H. Lawrence has imbued these characters with a plausibility that engenders sympathy, fury and frustration from the audience. Sixty years on, this is still a potent social commentary that many families and communities may well continue to relate to.