The L-Shaped Room Movie Review 1962

Young Frenchwoman Jane (Caron) is living in London and has an affair that leaves her pregnant. She winds up moving to a tacky boarding house, into the small room of the title. Soon, Jane has fallen for fellow tenant, out-of-work writer Toby (Bell), without disclosing her situation. However, when Toby's jealous best friend, jazz musician Johnny (Peters), learns of Jane's pregnancy, he uses his knowledge to break the twosome up. In the kitchen-sink tradition of British films that doesn't expect a happy ending. Based on the novel by Lynne Reid Banks.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS
Running time 89 minutes.
Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Romantic Drama, Pregnant Pauses, London

Screenplay

Bryan Forbes

Cast

Leslie Caron, Tom Bell, Brock Peters, Mark Eden, Cicely Courtneidge, Emlyn Williams, Bernard Lee, Avis Bunnage

Cinematography

Douglas Slocombe

Director

Bryan Forbes

Music

John Barry

Producer

Richard Attenborough, James Woolf