Bitter Harvest (1963)
It's Hoppity Goes To Town with sex in this 1963 British version of the old chestnut concerning an innocent country lass who travels to the big city and becomes corrupted, in this film version of Patrick Hamilton's novel The Street Has a Thousand Skies. Janet Munro runs the gamut of emotions as Jennie, a young girl from Wales who, with her girlfriend, is seduced and abandoned by a couple of heartless creeps in London, where she is later befriended by a kindly bartender John Stride. But Jennie snubs the bartender and takes up with a an unfeeling playboy. However, Jennie has gone around the park one time too many and is now torn between going back home or committing suicide. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Starring:
- Janet Munro, John Stride, (more)
- Director(s):
- Peter Graham Scott, Peter Graham, (more)
Synopsis of Bitter Harvest
It's Hoppity Goes To Town with sex in this 1963 British version of the old chestnut concerning an innocent country lass who travels to the big city and becomes corrupted, in this film version of Patrick Hamilton's novel The Street Has a Thousand Skies. Janet Munro runs the gamut of emotions as Jennie, a young girl from Wales who, with her girlfriend, is seduced and abandoned by a couple of heartless creeps in London, where she is later befriended by a kindly bartender John Stride. But Jennie snubs the bartender and takes up with a an unfeeling playboy. However, Jennie has gone around the park one time too many and is now torn between going back home or committing suicide. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
Complete Cast of Bitter Harvest
- Janet Munro - Jeannie Jones
- Anne Cunningham - Ella
- Vanda Godsell - Mrs. Pitt
- Norman Bird - Mr. Pitt
- Terry Alexander - Andy
- Daphne Anderson - Nancy Medwin
- Mary Merrall - Aunt Louise
- Colin Gordon - Charles
- Allan Cuthbertson - Mr. Eccles
- John Stride - Bob Williams
- Alan Badel - Karl Denny
- William Lucas - David Medwin
- Barbara Ferris - Violet
- Richard Thorp - Rex
- Derek Francis - Mr. Jones
- May Hallatt - Aunt Sarah
- Thora Hird - Mrs. Jessup
- Director(s):
- Peter Graham Scott, Peter Graham
- Writer(s):
- Patrick Hamilton, Ted Willis
- Producer(s):
- Albert Fennell, Julian Wintle, Leslie Parkyn
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