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The L-Shaped Room

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

continues a season of films by the distinguished writer-director Bryan Forbes
starring Leslie Caron, Tom Bell
Based on a bestselling novel, this engrossing movie is centred around the life and inhabitants of a crumbling west London mansion. In the various bedsits managed by a grasping landlady are prostitutes, a failed writer, a black jazz musician, a lesbian actress and a beautiful young French girl, Jane, who wonders whether to have her illegitimate baby, and seeks help from her neighbours ... As the nearby posters proclaim - all human life is here....
Screenplay by Bryan Forbes based on the novel by Lynne Reid Banks
Produced by James Woolf and Richard Attenborough
Directed by Bryan Forbes
FILMS: page 14

Contributors

Novel By:
Lynne Reid Banks
Screenplay:
Bryan Forbes
Produced By:
James Woolf
Produced By:
Richard Attenborough
Directed By:
Bryan Forbes
Jane:
Leslie Caron
Toby:
Tom Bell
Johnny:
Brock Peters
Mavis:
Cicely Courtneidge
Charlie:
Bernard Lee
Doris:
Avis Bunnage
Sonia:
Patricia Phoenix
Dr Weaver:
Emlyn Williams
Source: Radio Times

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