The Greengage Summer (1961)

Directors

Lewis Gilbert

Cast

Kenneth More, Danielle Darrieux, Susannah York, Claude Nollier, Jane Asher

The story

Joss Grey, a 16-year-old English girl, finds herself responsible for the care of her three younger siblings on a summer holiday in France when their mother is suddenly taken ill and rushed to the hospital. When they go to the Hotel Oeillets, proprietress Mademoiselle Zisi does not want the responsibility of unchaperoned children, but her enigmatic English lover Eliot persuades her to accept them. As the days pass, she wishes she had stuck to her original impulse; she becomes increasingly jealous of the attention Eliot pays to the children—especially to Joss.

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