The soundtrack was recorded at Lansdowne Studios in London, and was rerecorded at Twickenham Film Studios.ĭirector John Schlesinger was the only one who thought it would work in North America cinemas and so had to put up the money himself to blow up the print from 16mm to 35mm he took the new format to the Toronto Film Festival, where its success led to a North American release. The majority of the songs used in the film were arranged by Robert Lockhart.
The soundtrack was created through development of pre-existing pieces remixed for the film. The film itself reached a length of 2,902 metres, and ultimately became 105 minutes long in movie format. The film was edited at Rank Film Laboratories, part of The Rank Organisation. Rupert Penry-Jones as Dick Hawk-Monitor.Meanwhile the brothers Seth and Reuben fear Flora’s influence and believe she’s come to take the farm away from them.įlora quickly realises that, as a sensible, modern woman, she has the ability to assess, coax and organise each person into solving their own problems. But believing himself responsible for the farm, and shunning vanity, he makes everyone else unhappy. She finds out that her cousin Judith, is morose and depressed while Judith’s husband, Amos, wants to be the leader of his own, somewhat “Pentecostal” religion, the Quivering Brethren. Flora’s desire is to find out what was the ancient wrong which was “done to” her father and why the resulting doom lay over the Starkadder farm. The Starkadders are an assortment of rustic, uncouth, truly eccentric and quite possibly mad characters, each with a secret or not-so-secret heart's desire. Flora chooses to stay for a while with the Starkadder branch of the family on their rundown farm. While the smattering of responses are generally unsuitable, one is intriguing. Flora sends letters to her country relatives. Mary suggests anything else, including beekeeping.ĭue to her relative lack of means, her city-based relations show no interest. Flora initially aspires to be a writer, deciding that the only way for her to live whilst researching her writing is to stay with one of her many “dreadful” relatives.
( April 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īfter the death of her parents, young Flora Poste goes to stay with her friend, the eccentric divorcee Mrs. You can provide one by editing this article. This article needs an improved plot summary.
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