Sons and Lovers

“You'll never forget the young lovers in...”

6.4(38)19601h 43m

Drama

The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.

Director

Jack Cardiff

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Cast

Mary Ure

Clara Dawes

Trevor Howard

Walter Morel

Dean Stockwell

Paul Morel

Wendy Hiller

Gertrude Morel

Heather Sears

Miriam Leivers

William Lucas

William Morel

Conrad Phillips

Baxter Dawes

Ernest Thesiger

Mr. Hadlock

Donald Pleasence

Mr. Pappleworth

Rosalie Crutchley

Mrs. Leivers

Sean Barrett

Arthur Morel

Elizabeth Begley

Mrs. Radford

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1 review

Geronimo1967

4y ago

7.0

Dean Stockwell is on good form here, as the artistically talented "Paul" who lives with his miner father "Walter" (Trevor Howard) and mother (Wendy Hiller). When tragedy strikes their local mine, she is even more determined to ensure that this son does not go down the pit - and when "Hadlock" (Ernest Thesiger) offers him an opportunity to come to London and work - it looks like he might escape thi...