also starring Alan Bates
Oliver Reed , Jennie Linden with Eleanor Bron
Returning home from London to the small colliery town of Beldover, Gudrun Brangwen , is attracted to Gerald Crich - son of a wealthy mine owner. Her sister, Ursula, is equally attracted to Rupert Birkin , the inspector at the school where she is a teacher. The passions and final tragic outcome of the quartet's complex relationships form the mainspring of the action to this ambitious film, derived from D. H. Law rence's celebrated and controversial novel.
Women in Love proved to be director Ken Russell 's first' big screen success, as well as establishing the international reputations of Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson - winning her the first of her two Oscars.
Screenplay by LARRY KRAMER based on the novel by D. h. LAWRENCE Produced by LARRY KRAMER Directed by KEN RUSSELL Films: page 20