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First rate in every respect: plot, script, B&W cinematography, editing, music but the real icing on the cake would be the performances of Bancroft and Finch, which I suspect are the best of their careers
The Pumpkin Eater
- Drama
7/16/1964
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A Much Married Woman Who Drifts From Husband to Husband!
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart.
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Anne BancroftJo Armitage
Peter FinchJake Armitage- James MasonBob Conway
- Janine GrayBeth Conway
- Cedric HardwickeMr. James - Jo's father
- Rosalind AtkinsonMrs. James - Jo's mother
- Alan WebbMr. Armitage - Jake's father
- Richard JohnsonGiles
- Maggie SmithPhilpot
- Anthony NichollsSurgeon
- Yootha JoyceWoman at Hairdresser's
- John JunkinUndertaker
- John Franklyn-RobbinsParson
- Frank SinguineauKing of Israel
- Gerald SimMan at Party
- Faith KentNanny