The History of Production of the Works of Harold Pinter
The Go-Between (1971)
The Go-Between (1969)
| Budget (GBP) | 0 |
| Distribution Company |
MGM-EMI Distributors (Distributor | Est. Unknown) |
| Release Date | 24 September 1971 |
| Black and White | No |
| Regional Release | No |
| Release Notes | France 25 May 1971 (Cannes Film Festival) France 18 June 1971 USA 29 July 1971 (New York City, New York) Sweden 21 September 1971 UK 23 September 1971 (London) Belgium 24 September 1971 (Gent) Italy 29 September 1971 UK 1 October 1971 Denmark 3 November 1971 USA 13 November 1971 (Los Angeles, California) Finland 6 January 1972 Portugal 21 January 1972 Japan 11 February 1972 Spain 17 February 1972 (Madrid) Ireland 10 March 1972 Hungary 23 March 1972 Argentina 13 April 1972 West Germany 6 June 1972 (TV premiere) Uruguay 18 September 1972 Turkey February 1973 Greece 14 October 2006 (Panorama of European Cinema) |
| Description | Film version of L. P. Hartley's 1953 novel of the same name. Pinter wrote the screenplay. In this period drama, British teenager Leo Colston (Dominic Guard) spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian (Julie Christie). Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the "go-between" for Marian, delivering secret romantic letters to Ted Burgess (Alan Bates), a handsome neighbouring farmer. However, when Marian becomes engaged to Hugh Trimingham (Edward Fox), a local viscount, all their lives are altered. |
| Language | English |
Linked Productions
No linked Production have been added to this production record yet.
Linked People
Joseph Losey (1909 - 1984)
Creative | Director
Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008)
Creative | Screenplay
L. P. Hartley (1895 - 1972)
Creative | Author (original novel)
John Heyman (1933 - 2017)
Production | Producer
Norman Priggen (1924 - 1999)
Production | Producer
Robert Velaise
Production | Executive Producer
Denis Johnson (1918 - 1986)
Production | Producer
Michael Legrand
Creative | Music
Gerry Fisher (1926 - 2014)
Creative | Director Of Photography
Reginald Beck
Creative | Film Editor
Carmen Dillon (1908 - 2000)
Creative | Art Director
John Furniss
Creative | Costume Designer
Stephanie Kaye
Creative | Chief hairdresser
Bob Lawrence
Creative | Chief Makeup Artist
Denis Johnson Jr.
Production | Production executive
Richard Dalton
Creative | Assistant Director
Terry Hodgkinson
Creative | Second Assistant Director
Michael Finaly
Technical | Painter
Bill Gold
Creative | Poster design
Garth Craven
Technical | Dubbing editor
Peter Handford
Technical | Sound Recordist
Hugh Strain (1931 - 2011)
Technical | Sound Recordist
David Stephenson
Technical | Boom operator
Dudley Lovell
Technical | Camera operator
Bob Bremner
Technical | Generator operator
Mike Rutter
Technical | Assistant camera
Stephen Smith
Technical | Assistant camera
Eileen Sullivan
Technical | Wardrobe supervisor
Camilla Farmer
Technical | Costume coordinator
Noel Rogers
Technical | Assistant editor
Michael Legrand
Creative | Conductor
Keith Grant
Technical | Music scoring engineer
Pamela Davies
Production | Continuity
Richard Macdonald (1919 - 1993)
Creative | Titles
David Ball
Production | Assistant accountant
Theo de Rose
Production | Runner
Linked Organisations
No Linked organisations have been added to this production record yet.
Characters
Blunt (Age: Not Specified, Male)
Performer: John Rees (1927 - 1994)
Charles (The Go-Between) (Age: Not Specified, Male)
Performer: Roger Lloyd-Pack (1944 - 2014)
Colston (Age: Not Specified, Male)
Performer: Michael Redgrave (1908 - 1985)
Marian (Age: Not Specified, Female)
Performer: Julie Christie (1940)
Rector (Age: Not Specified, Male)
Performer: Gordon Richardson (1911 - 1994)
Ted (The Go-Between) (Age: Not Specified, Male)
Performer: Alan Bates (1934 - 2003)
Trimingham (Age: Not Specified, Male)
Performer: Edward Fox (1937)
Denys (Age: Not Specified, Male)
Performer: Simon Hume-Kendall
Leo (Age: Not Specified, Male)
Performer: Dominic Guard (1956)
Marcus (The Go-Between) (Age: Not Specified, Male)
Performer: Richard Gibson (1954)
Kate (The Go-Between) (Age: Not Specified, Female)
Performer: Amaryllis Garnet (1943 - 1973)
Mr Maudsley (Age: Not Specified, Male)
Performer: Michael Gough (1916 - 2011)
Mrs Maudsley (Age: Not Specified, Female)
Performer: Margaret Leighton (1922 - 1976)
Stubbs (Age: Not Specified, Male)
Performer: Keith Buckley (1941)
Boy in Village (The Go-Between) (Age: young, Male)
Performer: Joshua Losey (1957)
Spectator (The Go-Between) (Age: Not Specified, Male)
Performer: Jim Broadbent (1949)
Linked Awards
Cannes International Film Festival Award
1971
Won: Palme d'Or
British Film Academy Award
1971
Won: Best Screenplay
Society of Film and Television Arts
1971
Won: Best Screenplay
INTER Film Award
1971
Won
Academy Award
1971
Nominated: Best Supporting Actress: Leighton
British Academy Award
1971
Won: Best Supporting Actor
British Academy Award
1971
Won: Best Supporting Actress
British Academy Award
1971
Won: Most Promising Newcomer
British Academy Award
1971
Won: Best Film
New York Film Critics
1971
Won: Best Supporting Actress
Society of Film and Television Arts
1971
Won: Best Film
Linked Places
Melton Constable Hall, Melton Constable, Norfolk
Location for Brandham Hall.
Heydon, Norfolk
Location for church and village scenes.
Hickling Broad, Norfolk
Location for bathing scene.
Thornage, Norfolk
Location for cricket match scene.
Norwich Cathedral, Norwich
Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire
Studio
Resources
Arthur Cooper, 'Sunburn', Newsweek, 16 August 1971, p. 86 (Paper-based)
Type: Review
Wanda Hale, '"The Go-Between" Is Movie to Remember', New York Daily News, 30 July 1971, p. 54 (URL)
Type: Review
External Link: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/465738314/
Philip T. Hartung, 'The Screen', Commonweal, 17 September 1971, pp. 480-81 (URL)
Type: Review
External Link: https://www.unz.com/print/Commonweal-1971sep17-00480/
PDF currently unavailable
Robert Hatch, 'The Go-Between', Nation, 4 October 1971, pp. 316-17 (URL)
Type: Review
External Link: https://www.unz.com/print/Nation-1971oct04-00316/
PDF currently unavailable
Stanley Kauffmann, 'The Go-Between', The New Republic, 11 September 1971, 26 , pp. 33-34 (URL)
Type: Review
External Link: https://www.unz.com/print/NewRepublic-1971sep11-00026/
PDF currently unavailable
Penelope Gilliatt, 'The Current Cinema', The New Yorker, 31 July 1971, pp. 55- 57 (URL)
Type: Review
External Link: https://www.unz.com/print/NewYorker-1971jul31-00055/
PDF currently unavailable
Hollis Alpert, 'Movies: The Losey Situation', Saturday Review, 14 August 1971, p. 42 (URL)
Type: Review
External Link: https://www.unz.com/print/SaturdayRev-1971aug14-00042/
PDF available
David Brudnoy, 'Film: Son of Easy Rider', National Review, December 3, 1971, pp. 1368-1373 (URL)
Type: Review
External Link: https://www.unz.com/print/NationalRev-1971dec03-01368/
PDF currently unavailable
Steven Kohn, 'Cinematically Speaking', The Gramercy Herald, 23 July 1971, p. 7 (Paper-based)
Type: Review
Deac Rossell, 'Pinter and Losey's The Go-Between', Boston after Dark, 17 August 1971, p. 12 (Paper-based)
Type: Review
Archer Winsten, '"The Go-Between" Arrives at 68th St. Playhouse', New York Post, 30 July 1971, p. 21 (Paper-based)
Type: Review
New York Times, 30 July 1971, p. 21 (Paper-based)
Type: Review
New York Times, 11 August 1971, p. 44 (Paper-based)
Type: Review
New York Times, 12 September 1971 (Paper-based)
Type: Review
New York Times, 19 September 1971 (Paper-based)
Type: Review
Reader's Digest, October 1971, G-13 (Paper-based)
Type: Review
Film Quarterly 25 (spring 1972), pp. 37-41 (Paper-based)
Type: Article
The Go-Between Trailer, 1971 (URL)
Type: Trailer
External Link: https://mubi.com/films/the-go-between/trailer
Original trailer.
Interview with Edward Fox, conducted by Alex Lass, 16 December 2020 (PDF)
Type: Interview
Sources
BFI Screenonline
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/453435/index.html
URL
IMDB
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067144/
URL
Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process
Steven H. Gale, Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003)
Academic book
Contains chapters on each of Harold Pinter's filmed screenplays and includes a bibliography of reviews of films up to 1999.