
Bitter Harvest
Bitter Harvest is a 1963 British kitchen sink drama film directed by Peter Graham Scott and starring Janet Munro and John Stride. It was written by Ted Willis based on The Siege of Pleasure, the 1932 second volume in the trilogy 20,000 Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton.
Plot
Jennie Jones is a beautiful woman who returns intoxicated to her London apartment late one night and begins to destroy its contents in a rage, throwing her purse, keys and expensive gowns out into the street. Her story is then told in flashback.
Cast
More details
author | Patrick Hamilton |
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contentLocation | Wales |
director | Peter Graham Scott |
editor | Russell Lloyd |
genre | drama |
keywords | act address book beautiful woman cardiff estrange frame general store horrify mining town morning after older men one night plan told in flashback wale walk young girl |
musicBy | Laurie Johnson |
producer | Albert Fennell |
productionCompany | Independent Artists |
publisher | Rank Organisation Walter Reade |
recordedAt | Pinewood Studios |
theme | dance independent |