

Sons and Lovers
You'll never forget the young lovers in...
The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.
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- Language
- English
- based on novel or book
- heart attack
- family relationships
- nottingham
- black and white
- mining town
- death of mother
- coal mine
- drunkenness
- 1900s
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- TheatricalPGLondon23 Jun 1960
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Sons and Lovers was released on 23 June 1960.
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CinemaSerf
4/4/2022
Dean Stockwell is on good form here, as the artistically talented "Paul" who lives with his miner father "Walter" (Trevor Howard) and mother (Wendy Hiller). When tragedy strikes their local mine, she is even more determined to ensure that this son does not go down the pit - and when "Hadlock" (Ernest Thesiger) offers him an opportunity to come to London and work - it looks like he might escape this dead-end existence…
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