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Christopher Miles

Priest of Love

Edition 1983
125' - 1981 - Drama, Biography, Romance - Dialogue: English
Director: Christopher Miles Composer: Francis James Brown, Stanley Joseph Seeger With: Ian McKellen, Janet Suzman, Ava Gardner
Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow", D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to Italy, where Lawrence wrote "Lady Chatterley's Lover".

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Credits

Director

Christopher Miles

Composer

Francis James Brown, Stanley Joseph Seeger

With

Ian McKellen, Janet Suzman, Ava Gardner

Scenario

Alan Plater

Director of Photography

Ted Moore

Editor

Ann Chegwidden, Paul Davies

Producer

Andrew Donally, Christopher Miles

More information

Dialogue

English

Countries of production

Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom

Screenplay based on

"The Priest of Love: A Life of D H Lawrence" (Harry T. Moore)

Year

1981

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