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starring: Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden, Eleanor Brondirected by: Ken Russell
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304399149
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6304399146
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 131 minutes
Sales Rank: 31078
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: March 25, 1970
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
Before director Ken Russell's name became synonymous with cinematic extravagance and overkill, he actually directed what is one of the most passionate and involving adaptations of D.H. Lawrence in recent memory. Oliver Reed and Alan Bates star as friends who fall in love with a pair of sisters (Jennie Linden and Glenda Jackson, who won an Oscar for the role). But the relationships take markedly different directions, as Russell explores the nature of commitment and love. Bates and Linden learn to give themselves to each other; the more withdrawn Reed cannot, finally, connect with the demanding and challenging Jackson. Shot with great sensuality, it was surprisingly frank for its period (1970) and includes one of the most charged scenes in movie history: Bates and Reed as manly men, wrestling nude by firelight. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Interesting...
I think it is a love story between the two men and the women were just incidental.
The women had magnificent breasts, can't say the same about the men's equipment - of course, poles were half-mast. But Bates is really gorgeous. Also, I think Jeanie should have had the Oscar instead of Glenda. Interesting!!
Smudge Trio: First of all I am not a girl. And I don't know what you mean by me being a "pre-pubescent girl". You not only got the sex wrong but you sound like one of these ... Read More
Rating: - Great performances but dated
The performances are first rate: Glenda Jackson certainly deserved her Oscar, Alan Bates is always wonderful and Oliver Reed captures your heart by his very presence. The story is filled with the personal obsessions that drove Lawrence--finding some sort of truth in physical passion being the most obvious one. This film adaptation is hardly subtle--driving the same ideas home again and again---starting with the lesson of the parts of the flower in the opening schoolroom scene. Then there's the ... Read More
Rating:  - Russell Does Lawrence Proud
This early Ken Russell film is certainly one of his top efforts. Stunning performances! Glenda Jackson won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Gudrun. As true to the Lawrence novel as it is possible to be on film. Not a silly, happily-ever-after lightweight, this is also D H Lawrence at his best. A MUST-HAVE for all fans of Ken Russell and D H Lawrence.
Rating: - Women In Love - DVD
A most superb and touching period piece which unfolds the struggle of 4 adults - 2 couples - to come to grips, literatlly, with their sexuality including the homoerotic yearning of one of the males.
Rating: - Women in Love
This intelligent, passionate adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence novel by British director Russell fuses romantic classicism with frank talk, as the frolicking foursome openly discuss their philosophies of love and desire, friendship and commitment. Reed and then-unknown actress Glenda Jackson are especially compelling as the couple whose marital life is corrupted by her frivolous affair with a bisexual painter in Switzerland. Russell has an eye for the extravagant, like the nude fireside wrestling match ... Read More
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