The Pumpkin Eater | |
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Directed by | Jack Clayton |
Screenplay by | Harold Pinter |
Based on | The Pumpkin Eater 1962 novel by Penelope Mortimer |
Produced by | James Woolf |
Starring | Anne Bancroft Peter Finch James Mason |
Cinematography | Oswald Morris |
Edited by | Jim Clark |
Music by | Georges Delerue |
Color process | black and white |
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Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 118 minutes 110 minutes (TCM print) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Box office | $1.2 million (US/Canada rentals)[1] |
The Pumpkin Eater is a 1964 British drama film directed by Jack Clayton and starring Anne Bancroft and Peter Finch.[2] The film was adapted by Harold Pinter from the 1962 novel of the same title by Penelope Mortimer. The title is a reference to the nursery rhyme "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater".