Movie |
England | Based On Novel Or Book
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Best Screenplay | 1972 | Harold
Best Supporting Actor | 1972 | Edward
Best Supporting Actress | 1972
Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles | 1972 | Dominic
Best Foreign Film | 1973
Top Ten Films | 1972
Best Foreign Film Mejor Pelcula Extranjera | 1972 | Joseph
Best Supporting Actress | 1971
Best Actress in a Supporting Role | 1972
Best EnglishLanguage Foreign Film | 1972
Best Actress | 1972 | Julie
Best Cinematography | 1972 | Gerry
Best Art Direction | 1972
Best Direction | 1972 | Joseph
Best Film | 1972
Best Sound Track | 1972 | Hugh
Best Supporting Actor | 1972 | Michael
Best Costume Design | 1972
Best Foreign Director Regista del Miglior Film Straniero | 1972 | Joseph
Budget 100,000 USD
The movie was based upon L.P. Hartley's novel of the same name. The opening line of the novel has become somewhat well-known: "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." That same line--spoken by the voice-over narrator--opens this movie.
Regarding filming in Norfolk, director Joseph Losey said in an interview, "Norfolk helped me a lot because Norfolk hasn't changed. Most of the costumes were genuine. We made very few others, and we all lived in the house. They wore the costumes all the time, and ate, as well as acted in their costumes. Once you've got the exact house, accessories, costumes, something then springs to life."
After the novel's original publication in 1953, author L.P. Hartley sold the movie rights to Alexander Korda, who claimed that he wanted to make a movie with Deborah Kerr in the role of Marian. However, some years went by with no movie emerging, making Hartley convinced that Korda had only bought the movie rights in order to sell them to someone else (at a considerable profit). He told an interviewer years later that "I was so annoyed with Korda that I put a curse on him", rather in the manner of his novel's thirteen-year-old hero, and noted, alarmingly, that Korda had died suddenly the following day.
Director Joseph Losey rented an abandoned manor in Norfolk, and had it refurbished for the movie.
In 1956, Alexander Korda bought the movie rights to the novel, with a script to be written by Nancy Mitford, and to star Margaret Leighton and Sir John Gielgud or Sir Alec Guinness in the lead roles.
"[first lines] Leo Colston: The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there."
"Leo: Thank you very much Mr. Burgess, is there anything I can do for you?"
