We don’t ask for life. We have it thrust upon us.
While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's only support becomes her friend Geoffrey, a homosexual.
Directed byTony Richardson
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Language
- EN
- Released
- October 1, 1961
- Budget
- $153,814
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Cast & crew
Rita Tushingham
Jo
Murray Melvin
Geoffrey Ingham
Paul Danquah
Jimmy
Dora Bryan
Helen
Robert Stephens
Peter Smith
Michael Bilton
Landlord
Eunice Black
Schoolteacher
David Boliver
Bert
Margo Cunningham
Landlady
Rosalie Williams
Nurse
- Directed by
- Tony Richardson
- Written by
- Shelagh Delaney
Tony Richardson - Produced by
- Tony Richardson
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