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.jpg) Original British quad poster by Renato Fratini | |
| Directed by | Rudolph Cartier |
| Screenplay by | Joan Henry |
| Based on | novel The Shadow and the Peak by Richard Mason |
| Produced by | Kenneth Harper George Willoughby |
| Starring | Virginia McKenna Bill Travers Yvonne Mitchell |
| Cinematography | Ernest Steward |
| Edited by | Reginald Mills |
| Music by | Angelo Francesco Lavagnino Muir Mathieson (conductor) |
Production company | Harper-Willoughby |
| Distributed by | Rank Film Distributors (UK) |
Release dates |
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Running time | 101 minutes[1] |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Passionate Summer is a 1958 British drama film directed by Rudolph Cartier and starring Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers and Yvonne Mitchell.[2] It is also known by the alternative title Storm Over Jamaica. It was based on a best-selling 1949 novel by Richard Mason called The Shadow and the Peak.[3][4] The screenplay concerns a British schoolteacher who moves to Jamaica to teach after a tumultuous divorce, but meets an exciting new woman.
Cast
- Virginia McKenna - Judy Waring
- Bill Travers - Douglas Lockwood
- Yvonne Mitchell - Mrs Pawley
- Alexander Knox - Leonard Pawley
- Carl Möhner - Louis
- Gordon Heath - Coroner
- Guy Middleton - Duffield
- Pearl Prescod - Mrs Morgan
- Ellen Barrie - Sylvia
Reception
Variety said It "will do nothing for the reputation of the British film industry".[5]
References
- ^ "PASSIONATE SUMMER - British Board of Film Classification". www.bbfc.co.uk.
- ^ "Passionate Summer (1958)" Archived 23 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine, BFI.
- ^ Shipman, David (1 April 1994). "Obituary: Bill Travers". The Independent.
- ^ Goble, Alan (8 September 2011). "The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film". Walter de Gruyter – via Google Books.
- ^ Review of film at Variety
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