The Rainbow

The Rainbow


Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama
Release Year: 1989
Country: UK
Runtime: 113
Rating: 6.8 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Ken Russell
Sound: Dolby
Taglines:

  • Would you rent your body and soul for $50,000?

  • Writing by: D.H. Lawrence - novel
    Ken Russell - writer
    Vivian Russell - writer

    Produced by: Jeremy Bolt - assistant producer
    Dan Ireland - executive producer
    William J. Quigley - executive producer
    Ken Russell - producer
    Ronaldo Vasconcellos - line producer

    Cast: Sammi Davis - Ursula Brangwen
    Paul McGann - Anton Skrebensky
    Amanda Donohoe - Winifred Inger
    Christopher Gable - Will Brangwen
    David Hemmings - Uncle Henry
    Glenda Jackson - Anna Brangwen
    Dudley Sutton - MacAllister
    Jim Carter - Mr. Harby
    Judith Paris - Miss Harby
    Kenneth Colley - Mr. Brunt
    Glenda McKay - Gudrun Brangwen

    Music: Carl Davis
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    Plot Outline: A young woman deals in her own personal way with the trials of adolescence and young adulthood in early 1900s England.
    Plot: Ken Russells rather loose adaptation of the last part of D.H. Lawrences "The Rainbow" sees impulsive young Ursula coming of age in pastoral England around the time of the Boer War. At school, she is introduced to lovemaking by a bisexual physical education instructress. While experiencing disillusionment in her first career attempt (teaching), she has an affair with a young Army officer, who wants to marry her. Unable to accept a future of domesticity, she breaks with him, and eventually leaves home in search of her destiny.

    Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    This is not a history, but a tale of once upon a time. It may have happened. It may not have happened. But it could have happened.

    Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Continuity: The gladiator that Tovald kills from the two-horse chariot remains on his back. The next shot, however, shows him on his chest.

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