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Bitter Harvest (1963)

Bitter Harvest poster
Directed by
Peter Graham Scott
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 31m
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 13 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman from a working-class town gets involved with a married man. The film follows her struggles and the consequences of their affair.

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What happens

Bitter Harvest is a 1963 British kitchen sink drama film directed by Peter Graham Scott and starring Janet Munro and John Stride. It was written by Ted Willis based on The Siege of Pleasure, the 1932 second volume in the trilogy 20,000 Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton. It was the only film where Janet Munro played a lead role. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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