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The Young Lovers |
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The Young Lovers - 1954 | 96 mins | Drama | B&WThe Production TeamDirector: Anthony
Asquith. Producer: Anthony Havelock-Allan. Associate Producer: R. Denis Holt. Script: George Tabori and Robin Estridge. (from a novel by George Tabori) Cinematography: Jack Asher. Music: Benjamin Frankel and Tchaikovsky |
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The Cast Odile Versois - Anna Sobek David Knight - Ted Hutchens Joseph Tomelty - Moffat Paul Carpenter - Gregg Pearson Theodore Bikel - Joseph Jill Adams - Judy David Kossoff - Anton Sobek |
Plot Synopsis The Young Lovers is about a girl and a boy –
she (Odile Versois) is Russians and the daughter of a communist luminary,
he (David Knight) is in American code expert working for intelligence
at the American Embassy in London. At Covent Garden, watching the Swan
Lake ballet, they meet and fall in love and a problem immediately confronts
them because they are from different sides of the Iron Curtain. They
find their every move monitored by both sides. The course of true love
is eventually blocked by bureaucracy, forcing hero and heroine to escape
to a neutral corner of the world; the trouble is, there isn't any such
corner. Excerpt© 'Puffin Asquith' by R.J. Minney. |
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