Peter O'Toole
Sir Charles Ferguson
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Country Dance is a 1970 British drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Peter O'Toole, Susannah York and Michael Craig. It is based on the novel Household Ghosts (1961) by James Kennaway which became a three-act stage play in 1967.
Apr 22, 1970 · Brotherly Love: Directed by J. Lee Thompson. With Peter O'Toole, Susannah York, Michael Craig, Harry Andrews. Controversial tragicomedy about a brother's obsessive love for his sister. Having left her husband, Hilary moves in with her unbalanced brother, Pink, who uses wit and humor to hide his amorous yearnings.
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- J. Lee Thompson
- 1970-04-22
Country Dance is a 1970 British drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Peter O'Toole, Susannah York and Michael Craig. It is based on the novel Household Ghosts (1961) by James Kennaway which became a three-act stage play in 1967.
Country Dance. James Kennaway. Novel: James Kennaway. In this British tragi-comedy taking place among emotionally bankrupt upper-class Scottish countrymen, Peter O'Toole plays Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, a mentally disturbed Scotsman, living on his uncared-for farm, who also harbors an incestuous yearning for his sister ...
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- United Kingdom
- Ted Moore
- J. Lee Thompson
One day at a sheep auction, Hilary runs into Douglas, her husband, and discovers that they are still in love, and she asks him to meet her at a country dance that night. Pink learns of his sister's plan and plots to prevent their reconciliation; at the dance, he constantly interposes himself between Hilary and Douglas.
- J. Lee Thompson, Jake Wright
- Peter O'toole
Adapted from the novel Household Ghosts by James Kennaway, which was published nine years earlier, the movie - also known as Country Dance - concerns a British upper-class family that contains some rather unusual characters going about their business in a markedly strange country-house family.
Sep 10, 2012 · Country Dance 1969, directed by J Lee Thompson | Film review. Film. Time Out says. The US release title, Brotherly Love, better signalled the incestuous relationship at the core of this...
