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Genre
  
Biography, Drama, Romance

Duration
  

Language
  
English

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Director
  
Initial DVD release
  
June 21, 2011 (USA)

Country
  
UK

Priest of Love movie poster

Release date
  
11 October 19812nd cinema release = Enterprise Ltd., 8 November 1985 (Director’s cut for a Centenary Version)

Writer
  
Harry T. Moore (book), Alan Plater

Initial release
  
October 11, 1981 (New York City)

Music director
  
Stanley Joseph Seeger, Francis James Brown

Cast
  
Similar movies
  
Wilde (1997), Deep in My Heart (1954), Private Parts (1997), Women in Love (1969), Beloved Infidel (1959)

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Priest of Love is a British biographical film about D. H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda (née Von Richthofen). It was produced and directed by Christopher Miles and co-produced by Andrew Donally. The screenplay was by Alan Plater from the biography A Priest of Love by Harry T. Moore. The music score was by Francis James Brown and Stanley Joseph Seeger, credited jointly as "Joseph James", and the cinematography was by Ted Moore.

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The film was first released by Filmways in New York on 11 October 1981 and then by Enterprise Pictures Ltd in London with a Royal Premiere on 18 February 1982.

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1985 Centenary Version – Director's Cut

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Subsequently, the film was re-cut in 1985 by the director, for the centenary of D.H.Lawrence’s birth, and was re-released in cinemas by Enterprise Pictures to a more commercial and critical success.

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This 1985 Centenary Version was then re-mastered in 2011 for a new DVD release in the United States (Kino International – standard DVD and Blu-ray) and in the UK (Odeon Entertainment – standard DVD - 2012). The extras on both DVDs include interviews with Ian McKellen and Christopher Miles, and Penelope Keith narrates ‘The way we got it together’ on the making of the film.

Cast

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  • Ian McKellen as D.H. Lawrence
  • Janet Suzman as Frieda Lawrence
  • Penelope Keith as Dorothy Brett
  • Ava Gardner as Mabel Dodge Luhan
  • Jorge Rivero as Tony Luhan
  • John Gielgud as Herbert G. Muskett
  • Maurizio Merli as Angelo Ravagli
  • James Faulkner as Aldous Huxley
  • Mike Gwilym as John Middleton Murry
  • Massimo Ranieri as Piero Pini
  • Sarah Brackett as Achsah Barlow Brewster
  • Elio Pandolfi as Giuseppe Orioli
  • Adrienne Burgess as Katherine Mansfield
  • Mellan Mitchell as Aga Khan
  • Jane Booker as Frieda's daughter Barbara Weekley Barr
  • Julian Fellowes as Barbara Weekley Barr's fiancé

  • Priest of Love Priest of Love Bluray DVD Talk Review of the Bluray

    References

    Priest of Love Wikipedia
    Priest of Love IMDbPriest of Love Roger EbertPriest of Love themoviedb.org