Country Dance (film)

Country Dance
Directed by	J. Lee Thompson
Produced by	Robert Emmett Ginna
Written by	James Kennaway
Starring	Peter O'Toole Susannah York Michael Craig
Music by	John Addison
Cinematography	Ted Moore
Edited by	Willy Kemplen
Release dates	22 April 1970
Running time	112 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Country Dance (also known as Brotherly Love in the USA) is a 1970 British drama film based on the novel Household Ghosts (1961) by James Kennaway which became a three-act stage play in 1967. The film was released on 22 April 1970; it was directed by J. Lee Thompson.

Synopsis

A tragicomedy set in a fading Scottish aristocratic family, in which the drunken Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, Bt (Peter O'Toole) has an incestuous relationship with his equally eccentric sister Hilary Dow (Susannah York).

Cast

Peter O'Toole as Sir Charles Ferguson
Susannah York as Hilary Dow
Michael Craig as Douglas Dow
Harry Andrews as Brigadier Crieff
Cyril Cusack as Dr. Maitland
Judy Cornwell as Rosie
Brian Blessed as Jack Baird
Robert Urquhart as Auctioneer
Mark Malicz as Benny-the-Pole
Jean Anderson as Matron
Lennox Milne as Miss Mailer
Helena Gloag as Auntie Belle

Kitchen scene was filmed at now derelict Castle Hotel (opposite Tormaukin Hotel Scotland FK14 7JY,

External links

Country Dance at the Internet Movie Database
Country Dance at AllMovie

Films directed by J. Lee Thompson

Murder Without Crime (1950)
The Yellow Balloon (1953)
For Better, for Worse (1954)
The Weak and the Wicked (1954)
As Long as They're Happy (1955)
An Alligator Named Daisy (1955)
Yield to the Night (1956)
The Good Companions (1957)
Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957)
Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
North West Frontier (1959)
No Trees in the Street (1959)
Tiger Bay (1959)
I Aim at the Stars (1960)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Cape Fear (1962)
Taras Bulba (1962)
Kings of the Sun (1963)
What a Way to Go! (1964)
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
Return from the Ashes (1965)
Eye of the Devil (1966)
Mackenna's Gold (1969)
Before Winter Comes (1969)
The Chairman (1969)
Country Dance (1970)
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
Huckleberry Finn (1974)
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975)
St. Ives (1976)
The White Buffalo (1977)
The Greek Tycoon (1978)
The Passage (1979)
Caboblanco (1980)
Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
10 to Midnight (1983)
The Evil That Men Do (1984)
The Ambassador (1984)
King Solomon's Mines (1985)
Murphy's Law (1986)
Firewalker (1986)
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)
Messenger of Death (1988)
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)

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