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Bookmark this pageThe Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965)
Director: Terence Young
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From Time Out Film Guide
'12 years a whore, 5 times a wife (whereof once to her own brother), 8 years a transported felon...' But that's Defoe's Moll Flanders. This is a tidied-up version, morally and story-wise, a self-conscious counterpart to Tony Richardson's Tom Jones, the big hit of two years previous. It's not unamusing, rattling along at a fair lick, with no scene lasting longer than about a minute. Novak, ever a stranger to high spirits, makes a pallid heroine, but the supporting cast is compensatingly flavourful, especially Sanders ('Hah-hah! We're at it again!') and Cecil Parker, the latter more lecherous than he was ever allowed to be under J Arthur Rank's auspices.Author: BBa
Cast & crew
Director: Terence Young
Producer: Marcel Hellman
Cast: Kim Novak, Richard Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Leo McKern, George Sanders, Vittorio De Sica, Lilli Palmer, Cecil Parker, Daniel Massey, Roger Livesey, Hugh Griffith, Richard Wattis, Dandy Nichols, Bernard Lee full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 124 mins
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