The Pumpkin Eater
1964 film by Jack Clayton / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Pumpkin Eater is a 1964 British drama film starring Anne Bancroft as an unusually fertile woman and Peter Finch as her philandering husband. The film was adapted by Harold Pinter from the 1962 novel of the same title by Penelope Mortimer and was directed by Jack Clayton. The title is a reference to the nursery rhyme "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater".
The Pumpkin Eater | |
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Directed by | Jack Clayton |
Screenplay by | Harold Pinter |
Based on | The Pumpkin Eater 1962 novel by Penelope Mortimer |
Produced by | James Woolf |
Starring | Anne Bancroft Peter Finch James Mason |
Cinematography | Oswald Morris |
Edited by | Jim Clark |
Music by | Georges Delerue |
Color process | black and white |
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Distributed by | Royal Films International (UK) Columbia Pictures (USA) |
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Running time | 118 minutes 110 minutes (TCM print) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Box office | $1,200,000 (US/Canada rentals)[1] |
The Pumpkin Eater earned Bancroft critical acclaim and a second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, in addition to the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress.