The Go-Between (1971 film)

The Go-Between
Original British quad format poster
Directed byJoseph Losey
Screenplay byHarold Pinter
Based onThe Go-Between
by L. P. Hartley
Produced byJohn Heyman
Denis Johnson
Norman Priggen
StarringJulie Christie
Alan Bates
Margaret Leighton
Edward Fox
Dominic Guard
CinematographyGerry Fisher
Edited byReginald Beck
Music byMichel Legrand
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byMGM-EMI Film Distributors
Release dates
  • 23 September 1971 (1971-09-23) (London)
  • 1 October 1971 (1971-10-01) (UK)
Running time
116 minutes[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£532,841[2][3]

The Go-Between is a 1971 British historical drama film directed by Joseph Losey. Its screenplay by Harold Pinter is an adaptation of the 1953 novel The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley. The film stars Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave and Dominic Guard. It won the Palme d'Or at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.[4][5]

  1. ^ "The Go-Between". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  2. ^ Caute 1994, p. 277.
  3. ^ Chapman, James (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press. p. 361. ISBN 978-1399500760. gives the final cost as £468,098
  4. ^ "A brief history of the Palme d'or". Festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 26 May 2018. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
  5. ^ Moody, Paul (2018). EMI Films and the Limits of British Cinema. Palgrave MacMillan. pp. 59–66. ISBN 978-3319948034.