The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
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Anne Bancroft stars as a restless, twice-married British woman with six children, whose third husband is a fledgling screenwriter (Peter Finch). When success spins Finch's head around, he begins to dally with women other than his wife. Meanwhile, Bancroft is forced to stay home and play "domestic goddess", a role for which she is utterly unsuited. After suffering a nervous breakdown, Bancroft wanders the streets of London in a vain search for a sympathetic ear. She eventually comes to grips with the situation at hand--but as in most of playwright Harold Pinter's works, the characters of The Pumpkin Eater are just as unfulfilled in the last scene as they were in the first. Anne Bancroft won a Cannes Film Festival award for her performance in this film. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Anne Bancroft - Jo Armitage
- James Mason - Bob Conway
- Richard Johnson - Giles
- Rosalind Atkinson - Jo's Mother
- Alan Webb - Mr. Armitage, Jake's Father
- Janine Gray - Beth Conway
- Frank Singuineau - King of Israel
- Sarah Nicholls - Elizabeth
- Faith Kent - Nanny
- Anthony Nicholls - Surgeon
- Gerald Sim - Man at Party
- Leslie Nunnerley - Waitress at Zoo
- Peter Finch - Jake Armitage
- Cedric Hardwicke - Mr. James, Jo's Father
- Eric Porter - Psychiatrist
- Frances White - Dinah
- Cyril Luckham - Doctor
- Yootha Joyce - Woman at Hairdresser
- John Franklyn-Robbins - Parson
- John Junkin - Undertaker
- Rupert Osborne - Pete
- Maggie Smith - Philpot
- Christopher Ellis - Fergus
- Director(s):
- Jack Clayton
- Writer(s):
- Harold Pinter
- Producer(s):
- James Woolf
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- 1964 - The Pumpkin Eater - British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Best Foreign Actress
- 1964 - The Pumpkin Eater - British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Best Black and White Cinematography
- 1964 - The Pumpkin Eater - Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress
- 1964 - The Pumpkin Eater - Hollywood Foreign Press Association - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
