Bitter Harvest (1963)

★ 5.8 1h 31m IMDb

A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high?

Bitter Harvest

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Janet Munro
Janet Munro as Jennie Died 1972 · Blackpool, England, UK Born Janet Neilson Horsburgh, Janet Munro, was an English actress, best known for Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) for which she won a Golden Globe Award. and Life for Ruth (1962), for which...
John Stride
John Stride as Bob Died 2018 · London, England John Stride (11 July 1936 – April 20, 2018) was an English actor, best known for his television work during the 1970s. He was also a noted stage performer and founder member of the Old Vic company..
Thora Hird
Thora Hird as Mrs. Jessup Died 2003 · Morecambe, Lancashire, England, UK Dame Thora Hird, DBE was an English actress and comedian of stage and screen, presenter and writer. In a career spanning over 70 years, she appeared in more than 100 film and television roles, becomin...
Alan Badel
Alan Badel as Karl Died 1982 · Rusholme, Manchester, England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alan Fernand Badel (11 September 1923 – 19 March 1982) was a distinguished English stage actor who also appeared frequently in the cinema, radio and television...
Vanda Godsell
Vanda Godsell as Mrs. Pitt Died 1990 · Bognor Regis, West Sussex, England, UK Vanda Godsell was born on November 17, 1922 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England as Nancy Evelyn Godsell. She was an actress, known for The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), A Shot in the Dark (1964) an...
Norman Bird
Norman Bird as Mr. Pitt Died 2005 · Coalville, Leicestershire, England, UK John George Norman Bird (30 October 1924 – 22 April 2005) was an English character actor. Bird was born in Coalville, Leicestershire, England. A RADA graduate, he made his West End debut in Peter Bro...

Audience Reviews

CinemaSerf 6/10 Feb 09, 2023
"Jennie" (Janet Munro) is fed up struggling through her mundane life in Wales, and so heads to the bright lights of London where she encounters the decent and loving "Bob" (John Stride). All goes well for them for a while, they are very much in love - but she has a bit of a restless spirit and when the manipulative "Karl" (Alan Badel) comes onto the scene it looks like it might be curtains for their idyllic relationship. The rest of this rather procedural drama is interspersed with some flashbacks that illustrate that the past life of "Jennie" is not without it's demons and slowly we begin to reconcile those with her aspirations for a better life. It's a rather disappointing melodrama this, with a cast that don't really gel very well and although Munro is enthusiastic enough on screen, the whole story has a rather predictable nature to it ending with a certain inevitability that I found rather obvious. Badel was always good as the rather sleazy character, and here he does steal what scenes he is in. Otherwise, though, this is an unremarkable drama that might have been provocative in 1963, but is not remotely now.

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