Twentieth Century-Fox
Directed by Jack Cardiff
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Fox Movie Channel)
British adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence novel features a young Dean Stockwell as sensitive teenager Paul Morel. He lives in a dismal row house with his bickering parents. Dad is a coal miner and drunkard, unable to understand why his son prefers painting and poetry to life in the pit. Mom is sympathetic and probably a bit overprotective. In the midst of this dysfunction, he falls in love with a local girl who is unwilling to "go all the way" due to her strict religious upbringing. After gaining an arts patron, he goes to London and begins an affair with a married woman. It leads to more unhappiness. Meanwhile back at home, mom falls ill and he hurries to her bedside. All of this depressing melodrama is set in a cold and grey England, captured by the magnificent cinematography of Freddie Francis.
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