A Kind of Loving (film)

A Kind of Loving (film)

Infobox Film
name = A Kind of Loving


caption =
director = John Schlesinger
producer = Joseph Janni
writer = Keith Waterhouse
Willis Hall
Stan Barstow (novel)
starring = Alan Bates
June Ritchie
Thora Hird
music = Ron Grainer
cinematography = Denys Coop
editing =
distributor =
released = flagicon|UK 12 April, 1962
flagicon|USA 1 October, 1962
runtime = 112 minutes
country = flagicon|UK UK
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:27362
imdb_id = 0056141

"A Kind of Loving" is a 1962 British film directed by John Schlesinger, based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Stan Barstow. It stars Alan Bates and June Ritchie as two lovers in 1960s Lancashire. The photography was by Denys Coop, and the music by Ron Grainer. Filming locations included the towns of Preston, Blackburn, Bolton, Manchester and St Anne's-on-sea in the north of England.

The film belongs to the British New Wave movement in film, and the related genre commonly known as "kitchen sink drama".

Plot summary

Vic Brown (Bates) is a draftsman in a Lancashire factory who sleeps with a typist called Ingrid Rothwell (Ritchie) who also works there. She falls for him but he is less enamoured with her. He then learns she is pregnant so he proposes marriage and the couple move in with her domineering mother Mrs Rothwell (Thora Hird), who looks down on Vic. Ingrid has a miscarriage, Vic has regrets and comes home drunk. The couple then consider the possibility of making do with a 'kind of loving'.

Awards

The film won the Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1962.

External links

*imdb title|id=0056141|title=A Kind of Loving
*amg title|id=1:27362|title=A Kind of Loving
* [http://www.britmovie.co.uk/genres/drama/filmography/082.html "A Kind of Loving" at Britmovie]

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