Overview

Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted to a seductively virile gypsy. The climatic dam burst is linked with the consummation of her desire.

Genres

Cast

Joanna Shimkus

Yvette

Franco Nero

The gypsy

Honor Blackman

Mrs. Fawcett

Mark Burns

Major Eastwood

Fay Compton

Grandma

Maurice Denham

The Rector

Kay Walsh

Aunt Cissie

Imogen Hassall

The Gypsy's Wife

Norman Bird

Uncle Fred

Jeremy Bulloch

Leo

Jan Chappell

Mary

Margaret Rutherford

Grandma (scenes deleted)