The Hireling

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The Hireling

((Социально-романтическая лента.

Кажется, вполне прилично удалось показать изменения.
Леди - от поехавшей от смерти мужа вдовы, до уверенной в себе красотки.
Водилы - от застегнутого на все пуговицы сержанта-майора, до разбушевавшегося самца-пролетария.
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А ведь исторические фильмы делать намного сложнее, чем современные.))
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"Наёмный работник" (англ. The Hireling) — британская кинодрама 1973 года, поставленная режиссёром Аланом Бриджесом по роману Лесли Поулза Хартли.
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"Действие фильма происходит в Лондоне сразу после Первой мировой войны. Скромная девушка из высшего общества леди Франклин, выходящий из частной клиники и все ещё не оправившись от нервного потрясения, вызванного смертью мужа, нанимает нового шофёра. Наёмный работник Стивен Ледбеттер хорош собой, уверен, харизматичный, активный, но небогат и не имеет веса в обществе. Очень скоро человек влюбляется в свою хозяйку и начинает делать ей знаки внимания.

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"Set in and around Bath, Somerset immediately after the First World War, the story opens at an expensive mental clinic in the country where the young and recently widowed Lady Franklin is being discharged. The owner of a smart hire car, former sergeant-major Ledbetter, chauffeurs her to her unsympathetic mother in Bath. Hired to take her on outings, he becomes the only person she can talk to as she slowly lifts out of deep depression.

When he takes her to a boxing night at a boys club that he helps to run, she meets another committee member, the young former officer Cantrip. Like Ledbetter he is struggling to return to normal, in his case politics, after his traumatic experiences in the war. Cantrip starts wooing the wealthy Lady Franklin while still sleeping with his lover Connie, who is probably a war widow.

Ledbetter's mental equilibrium becomes progressively more fragile. His business is failing, his casual relationship with the waitress Doreen brings no joy, his deepening affection for Lady Franklin is no longer returned and his rage against his more successful rival is intensified by Cantrip's concealed involvement with Connie.

When he finally confronts Cantrip and Lady Franklin together, they tell him that he has no place in their lives because they have become engaged. Leaping into his Rolls-Royce and swigging frequently from a bottle of alcohol, he drives blindly back to his garage and proceeds to run amok in the little courtyard, driving heedlessly back and forth into the walls and reversing and on and on like an animal in a frenzy in a cage

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А́лан Бри́джес (англ. Alan Bridges; род. 28 сентября 1927, Ливерпуль, Великобритания — 7 декабря 2013) — британский режиссёр кино и телевидения.
Биография

Выпускник Королевской академии театрального искусства.

Работал на телевидении с 1961 года, дебют в большом кино состоялся в 1965 году. Крупнейший успех Бриджеса — фильм «Наёмный работник» (1973), удостоенный «Золотой пальмовой ветви», главного приза Каннского кинофестиваля.

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Лесли Поулз Хартли (англ. Leslie Poles Hartley, подписывал произведения Л. П. Хартли; 30 декабря 1895, Уиттлси, Кембриджшир — 13 декабря 1972, Лондон) — английский писатель

While attending Oxford, Hartley proposed to Joan Mews; it is not known if she accepted his proposal or not. In 1922 he suffered a nervous breakdown.[1] Soon afterwards he started spending much of his time in Venice, Italy, and he continued to do so for many years.[9] He travelled there with his aristocratic circle, eventually buying a home next to the church of San Sebastiano. A statue of Saint Sebastian outside the church, with arrows piercing his body, had a great influence on Hartley, as he would soon come to see the saint as "a symbol of mankind". While there, he owned a gondola, had his own personal gondolier, and was known to spend entire days on the canals. He also entertained many guests – including the painter Henry Lamb, the art critic Adrian Stokes, and the novelist Leo Myers – and often set his writing aside to focus on social events.[1]

During the later part of his life, Hartley resided in London at Rutland Gate, enjoying swimming and rowing during his free time.[6] He was known to have many servants, a number of whom became dear companions and appeared in his novels. Hartley became relatively reclusive during these years, no longer attending the social gatherings that had punctuated much of his earlier life.[1] Hartley enjoyed reading a number of his contemporary authors, such as Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Wharton, and Henry Green.[7]

Hartley was known to be a hypochondriac, particularly afraid of tetanus and a painful death. Many believe this fear of sickness came from his mother, who was known to be overly concerned about his health.[1][2] Hartley was very concerned with remaining an individualist within the structures of modern society; this led many to label him as a non-conformist. He referred to himself as a moralist.[7]

During his trips to Venice, David Cecil joined him many times, leading many to believe that Hartley was homosexual. The first novel in which he included homosexual characters was My Fellow Devils – though instead of painting their sexuality in a favorable light, he portrays it as the reason for a friendship's ruin.[1] Hartley was not open about his sexuality until toward the end of his life.[14] He regarded his 1971 novel The Harness Room as his "homosexual novel" and feared the public reaction to it.[1] Hartley died in London on 13 December 1972 at the age of 76,

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Роберт Арчибальд Шоу (9 августа 1927 — 28 августа 1978)

Роберт Шоу родился в Вестгаутоне, Англия в 1927 году. Его мать Дорин (урождённая Авери) — бывшая медсестра родом из Пигс-Пик, Свазиленд, а отец, Томас Шоу, доктор. Актёр имел трёх сестёр и брата. Когда Роберту исполнилось семь, его семья переехала в Стромнесс, Шотландия. Когда же юному актёру исполнилось двенадцать лет, его отец, человек депрессивный и пьющий, покончил жизнь самоубийством.

Роберт Шоу был трижды женат и имел десять детей, один из которых был усыновлён.

Его первой женой была Дженнифер Бурк (1952—1963), от которой он имел четыре дочери.

Второй женой стала актриса Мэри Юр (1963—1975), которая родила Роберту двух сыновей и дочерей; их брак закончился смертью Мэри от передозировки. Один из сыновей Роберта и Мэри, Иэн Шоу, стал актёром.

Третьей и последней женой Роберта стала Вирджиния Дженсен (1976—1978). В браке с ней у Шоу было два сына, один из которых был от предыдущего брака Вирджинии.

Роберт Шоу умер от инфаркта миокарда 28 августа 1978 года в Ирландии, после завершения работы над фильмом «Экспресс-лавина», в возрасте 51 года.

Mary Ure

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Мэри Юр (англ. Mary Ure, 18 февраля 1933 — 3 апреля 1975) — британская актриса

В начале 1970-х годов у Юр начались проблемы в личной жизни, а возросшая потребность в алкоголе стала постепенно разрушать её карьеру. Всё это привело к тому, что 3 апреля 1975 года в возрасте 42 лет Мэри Юр умерла от чрезмерной дозы виски и барбитуратов.

In 1956, Ure began an affair with married playwright John Osborne while working on the initial production of his play Look Back in Anger. The couple married in 1957, had a son Colin in 1961, but divorced in 1963.[13][14] Osborne had continued having affairs during the marriage, and Ure started an affair with her co-star Robert Shaw in 1959, while the two were performing in the London stage production of The Changeling. It is believed that Shaw was Colin's biological father.[9]

Ure and Shaw married in 1963, with Shaw immediately adopting Colin.[15] Ure and Shaw had three more children together: Elizabeth (born 1963), Hannah (born 1965) and actor Ian Shaw (born 1969).[9] Ure and Shaw were still married at the time of her death.
Decline and death
Ure suffered from alcoholism, coupled with a continued deterioration of her mental health, through the early 1970s.[16] On Wednesday 2 April 1975, she appeared on the London stage with Honor Blackman, Ronald Hines and Brian Blessed in an adaptation of the teleplay The Exorcism, and "within hours of a triumphant opening [night]"[17] was found dead, aged 42, from an accidental overdose of alcohol and barbiturates. Her body was discovered by her husband, Robert Shaw, in their London home

stammer and dyslexia

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Сара Майлз (англ. Sarah Miles; род. 31 декабря 1941, Ingatestone, Эссекс, Англия)

Личная жизнь

Сестра английского режиссёра, сценариста и продюсера Кристофера Майлза[en] (англ. Christopher Miles, р. 19 апреля 1939).

В 60-е годы была связана многолетними романтическими отношениями с актёром Джеймсом Фоксом, партнёром по фильму Дж. Лоузи «Слуга».

Дважды (в 1967—1975 и 1988—1995) была замужем за известным британским драматургом Робертом Болтом. Он написал и снял фильм «Леди Каролина Лэм» (1972), в котором Сара сыграла заглавную роль.

Sarah Miles was born in Ingatestone, Essex, in south east England; her brother is film director, producer, and screenwriter Christopher Miles. Miles's parents were Clarice Vera Remnant and John Miles, of a family of engineers; her father's inability to secure a divorce from his first wife meant Miles and her siblings were illegitimate.[1] Through her maternal grandfather Francis Remnant, Miles claims to be the great-granddaughter of Prince Francis of Teck (1870–1910), thus a second cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II.[2][3] Unable to speak until the age of nine because of a stammer[4] and dyslexia,[5] she attended Roedean and three other schools but was expelled from all of them

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Personal life

Miles was married twice to the British playwright Robert Bolt, 1967–1975 and 1988–1995.[15] He wrote and directed the film Lady Caroline Lamb, in which Miles played the eponymous heroine, and wrote Ryan's Daughter, as well. After his stroke, the couple reunited and Miles cared for him. "I would be dead without her", Bolt said in 1987, "When she's away, my life takes a nosedive. When she returns, my life soars."[16] The couple had a son.[17]

Miles stated, in 2007, that she had been drinking her own urine for 30 years for health reasons.[4]

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spasibo

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Кажется, авторам удалось удержать равновесие между разными компонентами:
тягучей повседневностью английской жизнью, странным сплавом снобизма и демократизма,
нежными чувствами грубого боксера и желанием обмануться со стороны прекрасной леди.
Ейную мамашу решили показать несколько сатирически.