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Bookmark this pageThe L-Shaped Room (1962)
Director: Bryan Forbes
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A queasy sample of the 'new British realism' of the early '60s, based on a novel by Lynne Reid Banks, with Caron as a pregnant French girl who holes up in a Notting Hill bedsit. The house, of course, is peopled by a surefire stockpot of picturesque characters, from seedy doctor and gay black to lesbian actress and chatty tart, not forgetting the tyro writer (Bell) who falls for Caron and draws literary inspiration from their story. Good performances, but it's all a bit like a po-faced trial run for TV's Rising Damp.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Bryan Forbes
Producer: James Woolf, Richard Attenborough
Cast: Leslie Caron, Tom Bell, Brock Peters, Cicely Courtneidge, Bernard Lee, Avis Bunnage, Patricia Phoenix, Emlyn Williams, Brock Peters, Anthony Booth, Nanette Newman full cast
Duration: 142 mins
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