- Poor Cow
Infobox_Film
name = Poor Cow
caption = DVD cover for "Poor Cow"
director =Ken Loach
producer =Joseph Janni
Edward Joseph
writer =Nell Dunn (novel)
Ken Loach (screenplay)
starring =Terence Stamp Carol White John Bindon Queenie Watts Kate Williams
Billy Murray
editing = Roy Watts
cinematography = Miriam Brickman
distributor =Anglo-Amalgamated (UK)
National General (US)
released = 1967
runtime = 101 min | country = Flagicon|UK
language = English
budget =
music =Donovan
awards =
imdb_id = 0062141"Poor Cow" is a 1967
drama film by British directorKen Loach , based on Nell Dunn's novel of the same name.Although
Malcolm McDowell is listed in the credits on the commercial release of the film, the scenes in which he appears are deleted.Steven Soderbergh used clips of "Poor Cow" to show the early life ofTerence Stamp 's character in "The Limey " (1999).The title song by
Donovan was released as single b-side to "Jennifer Juniper " in early 1968. Other songs by him in the film are "Be Not Too Hard " and "Colours".Plot summary
Joy is an 18 year old woman who runs away from home with Tom; this proves to be the first of many bad choices. She marries and has a boy, Johnny. Tom is a thief; he becomes mentally and physically abusive to Joy and ends up in prison, leaving her on her own. Joy takes a job as a barmaid and then, to earn extra money, becomes a prostitute. Her life spirals downhill until her son goes missing and she realises what is most important to her.
:Tagline: "A love story about a girl, the man she is living for, and the man she is living with".
External links
*imdb title|0062141|Poor Cow
* [http://www.timeout.com/film/71270.html "Poor Cow" review in Time Out]
* [http://www.iofilm.co.uk/fm/p/poor_cow_1967.shtml "Poor Cow" review in Inside Out]
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