The Go-Between (1971)
In those days, you fell in love with your own class. Or found a Go-Between.
Director: Joseph Losey · Writer: Harold Pinter
British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the "go-between" for Marian, delivering secret romantic letters to Ted Burgess, a handsome neighboring farmer.
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Trailer
Director
Joseph Losey
Cast
Julie Christie
Lady Marian Trimingham 
Alan Bates
Ted Burgess 
Edward Fox
Hugh Trimingham 
Michael Redgrave
The Older Leo Colston 
Dominic Guard
The Young Leo Colston 
Margaret Leighton
Mrs Maudsley 
Michael Gough
Mr Maudsley 
Richard Gibson
Marcus Maudsley 
Simon Hume-Kendall
Denys 
Roger Lloyd Pack
Charles
Amaryllis Garnett
Kate 
Keith Buckley
Stubbs User Reviews (1)
Sadly, time has not been very kind to the potency of this film. In 2020s society, the overwhelming feeling of "so what?" is hard to shake off; despite some really strong performances. Dominic Guard is "Leo", just 13 when he is invited to summer at the Norfolk country home of one of his classmates. He quickly befriends his older sister "Marian" (Julie Christie) and is soon acting - innocently, at first - as her courier passing ostensibly harmless letters between herself, her fiancée "Hugh" (Edward Fox) and a swarthy tenant farmer "Ted" (Alan Bates). Guard is great as the young man who starts to put two and two together as he slowly gets caught up in this menage-à-trois whilst trying to accommodate his own sexual awakening. His own naive inquisitiveness gives his character an engaging and frustrating quality that we might all have related to, once upon a time. Losey's pace is off, though…
