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The L-Shaped Room (1962)
Directed by Bryan Forbes
Overview
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby’s father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London boarding house, Jane befriends the odd group of inhabitants and starts an affair with one boarder, Toby. As Jane’s pregnancy threatens her new relationship, and the reality of single motherhood approaches, she is forced to decide what to do about both her baby and her budding romance.
Length 126 minutes
Actors
Leslie Caron | Tom Bell | Brock Peters | Bernard Lee | Avis Bunnage | Patricia Phoenix | Cicely Courtneidge | Verity Edmett | Tony Booth | Harry Locke | Ellen Dryden | Emlyn Williams | Jennifer White | Gerry Duggan | Joan Ingram | Mark Eden | Stanley Morgan | Gerald Sim | Pamela Sholto | Ruth Burns | Diane Clare | Arthur White | Nanette Newman | Kay Walsh