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A faithful [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] was released in 1971, directed by Joseph Losey, written by Creator/HaroldPinter, and starring Creator/JulieChristie as Marian, Creator/AlanBates as Ted, Creator/EdwardFox as Trimingham, Creator/MargaretLeighton as Mrs Maudsley, Creator/MichaelRedgrave as Leo, and a whole battery of British character actors.
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A faithful [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] was released in 1971, directed by Joseph Losey, Creator/JosephLosey, written by Creator/HaroldPinter, and starring Creator/JulieChristie as Marian, Creator/AlanBates as Ted, Creator/EdwardFox as Trimingham, Creator/MargaretLeighton as Mrs Maudsley, Creator/MichaelRedgrave as Leo, and a whole battery of British character actors.
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A novel by Creator/LPHartley, published in 1953.
Leo Colston, an elderly man who has never married, discovers a diary he kept as a schoolboy which recalls a long-ago summer that he has subconsciously blocked from his memory.
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A novel by English author Creator/LPHartley, published in 1953.
Leo Colston, an elderly man who has never married, discovers a diaryhe that he'd kept as a schoolboy schoolboy, which recalls a long-ago summer that he has subconsciously blocked from his memory.
Leo Colston, an elderly man who has never married, discovers a diary
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* {{Diary}}: Leo's discovery of the old diary triggers the memory he has suppressed and helps him to rebuild it.
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* AffablyEvil: Mrs Maudsley, possibly, although she is also a control freak.
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Left to his own devices for an afternoon, Leo wanders into the yard of Ted Burgess, a tenant farmer, who befriends Leo and persuades him to take a message to Marian. Marian sends him back with a reply, and thus the naive Leo is unwittingly entangled as an intermediary in the developing romance between Marian and Ted.
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Left to his own devices for an afternoon, Leo wanders into the yard of Ted Burgess, a tenant farmer, who befriends Leo and persuades him to take a message to Marian. Marian sends him back with a reply, and thus the naive Leo is unwittingly entangled into a role as an intermediary in the developing romance between Marian and Ted.
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In 1900, Leo was invited to spend the summer with his schoolfriend Marcus Maudsley and his family at Brandham Hall the grand Norfolk house they lease from Hugh, Viscount Trimingham, a genial aristocratic war hero with a disfigured face. The socially-ambitious Mrs Maudsley has arranged a marriage between Trimingham and her daughter Marian.
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In 1900, Leo was is invited to spend the summer with his schoolfriend school friend Marcus Maudsley and his family at Brandham Hall Hall, the grand Norfolk house they lease from Hugh, Viscount Trimingham, a genial aristocratic war hero with a disfigured face. The socially-ambitious Mrs Maudsley has arranged a marriage between Trimingham and her daughter Marian.
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''The Go Between'' has one of the great opening lines:
''The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there''.
Faithfully filmed in 1971 with Creator/JulieChristie as Marian, AlanBates as Ted, EdwardFox as Trimingham, a whole battery of British character actors and a screenplay written by Creator/HaroldPinter.
''The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there''.
Faithfully filmed in 1971 with Creator/JulieChristie as Marian, AlanBates as Ted, EdwardFox as Trimingham, a whole battery of British character actors and a screenplay written by Creator/HaroldPinter.
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''The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there''.
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* BlackMagic: Leo is bullied at school but gains some respect, not least from Marcus, by his interest in the occult and apparent ability to cast a functioning curse. He attempts to brew up a curse at Brandham using parts of the deadly nightshade. It doesn't end well.
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* BlackMagic: Leo is bullied at school but gains some respect, not least from Marcus, by his interest in the occult and apparent ability to cast a functioning curse. He attempts to brew up a curse at Brandham using parts of the deadly nightshade.nightshade plant. It doesn't end well.
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Faithfully filmed in 1970 with Creator/JulieChristie as Marian, AlanBates as Ted, EdwardFox as Trimingham, a whole battery of British character actors and a screenplay written by Creator/HaroldPinter.
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* {{Cricket}}: A significant episode is the annual cricket match between the House and the Village. Ted Burgess threatens to build a large score to help the Village beat the House but is caught by Leo off the bowling of Hugh Trimingham in a way that foreshadows coming events. Leo is not in the original team but is brought on as a substitute fielder, so his contribution to the match is recorded anonymously in the scorebook just as he is anonymous to the other guests at Brandham Hall.
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* VictorianBritain: The main action takes place in the summer of 1900, so just scrapes in. The feel is more TheEdwardianEra though.
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* [[spoiler:AteHisGun]]: Ted.
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* ControlFreak: Mrs Maudsley, for sure.
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* CostumePorn: In the film.
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* DownerEnding: Let's just say that nobody comes out of it well.
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* DownerEnding: Let's just say that nobody Nobody comes out of it well.well. [[spoiler: Ted commits suicide, Marian is forced into a loveless marriage, and Leo is emotionally crippled and never marries.]]
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A novel by LPHartley, published in 1953.
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A novel by LPHartley, Creator/LPHartley, published in 1953.
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* ColorMotif: Marian buys naive Leo a green summer outfit to replace the unsuitable clothes he has brought with him. Later she buys him a green bicycle as a birthday present, which would incidentally help him to carry messages. Lampshaded by Marcus in tormenting Leo.
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* ColorMotif: Marian buys naive Leo a green summer outfit to replace the unsuitable clothes he has brought with him. Later she buys him a green bicycle as a birthday present, which would incidentally help him to carry messages. Lampshaded by Marcus in tormenting Leo.Leo, using "green" in the sense of greenhorn, an immature or naive person.
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* InnocenceLost: Leo, who is innocent and then some to begin with.
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* StarCrossedLovers: Marian and Ted. Leo is a Leo and this inspires his interest in the occult. Leo's curse didn't really bring about the downfall of the lovers' but he thought it did at the time.
* VictorianBritain: The main action takes place in the summer of 1900, so just scrapes in. The feel is more TheEdwardianEra though
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* StarCrossedLovers: Marian and Ted. His interest in the occult was originally inspired by the astrological illustrations in his diary -- Leo is a Leo and this inspires his interest in he imagines Marian as Virgo, the occult. Leo's Maiden. His curse didn't really bring about the downfall of the lovers' lovers -- but he thought it did at the time.
time he believed himself fully responsible for that and for [[spoiler: Ted's suicide]].
* VictorianBritain: The main action takes place in the summer of 1900, so just scrapes in. The feel is more TheEdwardianErathoughthough.
* VictorianBritain: The main action takes place in the summer of 1900, so just scrapes in. The feel is more TheEdwardianEra
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A novel by LPHartley, published in 1953.
Leo Colston, an elderly man who has never married, discovers a diary he kept as a schoolboy which recalls a long-ago summer that he has subconsciously blocked from his memory.
In 1900, Leo was invited to spend the summer with his schoolfriend Marcus Maudsley and his family at Brandham Hall the grand Norfolk house they lease from Hugh, Viscount Trimingham, a genial aristocratic war hero with a disfigured face. The socially-ambitious Mrs Maudsley has arranged a marriage between Trimingham and her daughter Marian.
Left to his own devices for an afternoon, Leo wanders into the yard of Ted Burgess, a tenant farmer, who befriends Leo and persuades him to take a message to Marian. Marian sends him back with a reply, and thus the naive Leo is unwittingly entangled as an intermediary in the developing romance between Marian and Ted.
TheGoBetween has one of the great opening lines:
''The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there''.
Faithfully filmed in 1970 with JulieChristie as Marian, AlanBates as Ted, EdwardFox as Trimingham, and a whole battery of British character actors.
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!!TheGoBetween provides examples of:
* AffablyEvil: Mrs Maudsley, possibly, although she is also a control freak.
* ArcWords: ''Delenda est belladona''. Also, ''Nothing is ever a lady's fault''.
* [[spoiler:AteHisGun]]: Ted.
* BigFancyHouse: Brandham Hall.
* BlackMagic: Leo is bullied at school but gains some respect, not least from Marcus, by his interest in the occult and apparent ability to cast a functioning curse. He attempts to brew up a curse at Brandham using parts of the deadly nightshade. It doesn't end well.
* BlueBlood: Hugh is the latest in a long line of Viscounts Trimingham, whose memorials line the walls of the local church.
* ChekhovsGun: Ted shows Leo how to clean his shotgun, and promises to teach him how to shoot. Of course, a Norfolk farmer would be expected to have a shotgun but even so...
* ColorMotif: Marian buys naive Leo a green summer outfit to replace the unsuitable clothes he has brought with him. Later she buys him a green bicycle as a birthday present, which would incidentally help him to carry messages. Lampshaded by Marcus in tormenting Leo.
* ControlFreak: Mrs Maudsley, for sure.
* CostumePorn: In the film.
* {{Cricket}}: A significant episode is the annual cricket match between the House and the Village. Ted Burgess threatens to build a large score to help the Village beat the House but is caught by Leo off the bowling of Hugh Trimingham in a way that foreshadows coming events. Leo is not in the original team but is brought on as a substitute fielder, so his contribution to the match is recorded anonymously in the scorebook just as he is anonymous to the other guests at Brandham Hall.
* {{Diary}}: Leo's discovery of the old diary triggers the memory he has suppressed and helps him to rebuild it.
* DownerEnding: Let's just say that nobody comes out of it well.
* DramaticThunder: Events finally come to a head in the thunderstorm which breaks the heatwave.
* FishOutOfWater: Leo is a scholarship boy at his boarding school. He lives modestly with his over-protective widowed mother and knows nothing of the conventions of the upper classes. It's obvious to everybody including himself that Leo doesn't fit in at Brandham. Although the others do their best to treat him kindly, if rather condescendingly, he is very uncomfortable. When Marcus is quarantined with measles Leo is even more isolated.
* FramingDevice: The story is narrated by the elderly Leo as the events come back to him. The ending brings us back to the 1950s as Leo takes a trip to Norfolk where he meets Marian, now elderly herself of course and somewhat dotty, and her grandson the current Viscount Trimingham who [[spoiler:bears a strong resemblance to Ted Burgess]].
* GardenOfEvil: The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly_nightshade deadly nightshade]] in the old outhouse.
* HeatWave: Temperatures at Brandham promise to break all records as the passion of Marian and Ted warms up.
* InnocenceLost: Leo, who is innocent and then some to begin with.
* LoveTriangle: Hugh, Marian and Ted. Although the relationship between Hugh and Marian is more duty and social expedience, and that between Marian and Ted is lust.
* NouveauRiche: The Maudsleys are this. Mr Maudsley is a stockbroker and fairly amiable but Mrs Maudsley is a social climber; she is hell-bent on raising the family status by marrying her daughter into the aristocracy. Both Marcus and his older brother Denys are inveterate snobs.
* StarCrossedLovers: Marian and Ted. Leo is a Leo and this inspires his interest in the occult. Leo's curse didn't really bring about the downfall of the lovers' but he thought it did at the time.
* VictorianBritain: The main action takes place in the summer of 1900, so just scrapes in. The feel is more TheEdwardianEra though
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Leo Colston, an elderly man who has never married, discovers a diary he kept as a schoolboy which recalls a long-ago summer that he has subconsciously blocked from his memory.
In 1900, Leo was invited to spend the summer with his schoolfriend Marcus Maudsley and his family at Brandham Hall the grand Norfolk house they lease from Hugh, Viscount Trimingham, a genial aristocratic war hero with a disfigured face. The socially-ambitious Mrs Maudsley has arranged a marriage between Trimingham and her daughter Marian.
Left to his own devices for an afternoon, Leo wanders into the yard of Ted Burgess, a tenant farmer, who befriends Leo and persuades him to take a message to Marian. Marian sends him back with a reply, and thus the naive Leo is unwittingly entangled as an intermediary in the developing romance between Marian and Ted.
TheGoBetween has one of the great opening lines:
''The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there''.
Faithfully filmed in 1970 with JulieChristie as Marian, AlanBates as Ted, EdwardFox as Trimingham, and a whole battery of British character actors.
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!!TheGoBetween provides examples of:
* AffablyEvil: Mrs Maudsley, possibly, although she is also a control freak.
* ArcWords: ''Delenda est belladona''. Also, ''Nothing is ever a lady's fault''.
* [[spoiler:AteHisGun]]: Ted.
* BigFancyHouse: Brandham Hall.
* BlackMagic: Leo is bullied at school but gains some respect, not least from Marcus, by his interest in the occult and apparent ability to cast a functioning curse. He attempts to brew up a curse at Brandham using parts of the deadly nightshade. It doesn't end well.
* BlueBlood: Hugh is the latest in a long line of Viscounts Trimingham, whose memorials line the walls of the local church.
* ChekhovsGun: Ted shows Leo how to clean his shotgun, and promises to teach him how to shoot. Of course, a Norfolk farmer would be expected to have a shotgun but even so...
* ColorMotif: Marian buys naive Leo a green summer outfit to replace the unsuitable clothes he has brought with him. Later she buys him a green bicycle as a birthday present, which would incidentally help him to carry messages. Lampshaded by Marcus in tormenting Leo.
* ControlFreak: Mrs Maudsley, for sure.
* CostumePorn: In the film.
* {{Cricket}}: A significant episode is the annual cricket match between the House and the Village. Ted Burgess threatens to build a large score to help the Village beat the House but is caught by Leo off the bowling of Hugh Trimingham in a way that foreshadows coming events. Leo is not in the original team but is brought on as a substitute fielder, so his contribution to the match is recorded anonymously in the scorebook just as he is anonymous to the other guests at Brandham Hall.
* {{Diary}}: Leo's discovery of the old diary triggers the memory he has suppressed and helps him to rebuild it.
* DownerEnding: Let's just say that nobody comes out of it well.
* DramaticThunder: Events finally come to a head in the thunderstorm which breaks the heatwave.
* FishOutOfWater: Leo is a scholarship boy at his boarding school. He lives modestly with his over-protective widowed mother and knows nothing of the conventions of the upper classes. It's obvious to everybody including himself that Leo doesn't fit in at Brandham. Although the others do their best to treat him kindly, if rather condescendingly, he is very uncomfortable. When Marcus is quarantined with measles Leo is even more isolated.
* FramingDevice: The story is narrated by the elderly Leo as the events come back to him. The ending brings us back to the 1950s as Leo takes a trip to Norfolk where he meets Marian, now elderly herself of course and somewhat dotty, and her grandson the current Viscount Trimingham who [[spoiler:bears a strong resemblance to Ted Burgess]].
* GardenOfEvil: The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly_nightshade deadly nightshade]] in the old outhouse.
* HeatWave: Temperatures at Brandham promise to break all records as the passion of Marian and Ted warms up.
* InnocenceLost: Leo, who is innocent and then some to begin with.
* LoveTriangle: Hugh, Marian and Ted. Although the relationship between Hugh and Marian is more duty and social expedience, and that between Marian and Ted is lust.
* NouveauRiche: The Maudsleys are this. Mr Maudsley is a stockbroker and fairly amiable but Mrs Maudsley is a social climber; she is hell-bent on raising the family status by marrying her daughter into the aristocracy. Both Marcus and his older brother Denys are inveterate snobs.
* StarCrossedLovers: Marian and Ted. Leo is a Leo and this inspires his interest in the occult. Leo's curse didn't really bring about the downfall of the lovers' but he thought it did at the time.
* VictorianBritain: The main action takes place in the summer of 1900, so just scrapes in. The feel is more TheEdwardianEra though
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