Greengage Summer (The)
Original Title
Loss of Innocence- Director: Lewis Gilbert
- Writer: Rumer Godden
- Producer: Victor Saville; Edward Small
CGiii Comment
When she arrives in the French region of Champagne in the company of her mother, her two sisters and her brother, sixteen-year-old Joss Grey is still just a teen-ager. At the time of her return to England, she has become a woman... What has happened is that Mrs. Grey fell ill at the beginning of their stay and was sent to hospital leaving the foursome in the care of Madame Zizi, the manager of the hotel where they are staying. She has a lover, Eliot, who gets lodging there. Unaware of the bond between him and the proprietor, Joss develops the attraction to the forty-year-old man. Eliot is so friendly... Eliot is so handsome... A bit enigmatic perhaps, but so charming...
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Cast & Characters
Kenneth More as Eliot;
Danielle Darrieux as Madame Zisi;
Susannah York as Joss Grey;
Claude Nollier as Madame Corbet;
Jane Asher as Hester;
Elizabeth Dear as Vicky;
Richard Williams as Wilmouse;
David Saire as Paul;
Raymond Gerome as Renard;
Maurice Denham as Uncle William;
Andre Maranne as Monsieur Dufour;
Harold Kasket as Monsieur Prideaux;
Jacques B. Brunius as Monsieur Joubert;
Joy Shelton as Mrs. Grey;
Balbina as Mauricette