The Greengage Summer

"Loss of Innocence (film)" redirects here. Not to be confused with A Loss of Innocence.

The Greengage Summer
Movie poster
Directed byLewis Gilbert
Written by
Produced byEdward Small (executive)
Victor Saville
StarringKenneth More
Danielle Darrieux
Susannah York
CinematographyFreddie Young
Music byRichard Addinsell
Production
companies
PKL Productions
Victor Saville-Edward Small Productions
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release dates
  • 4 April 1961 (1961-04-04) (World premiere, London, UK)
  • 1 May 1961 (1961-05-01) (UK general release)
  • 20 September 1961 (1961-09-20) (US)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Greengage Summer (called Loss of Innocence in the U.S.) is a 1961 British drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Kenneth More and Susannah York (in her first leading role). It was based on the novel The Greengage Summer (1958) by Rumer Godden. Set in Épernay, in the Champagne region of France, it is the story of the transition of a teenage girl into womanhood.

More later named it as his favourite film, stating, "[Susannah York] was just twenty-one and an adorable creature... it was one of the happiest films on which I have ever worked."[1]

  1. ^ More, Kenneth (1978). More or Less. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-22603-X.