Sons and Lovers
You'll never forget the young lovers in...
Dramabased on novel or bookheart attackfamily relationshipsnottinghamblack and whitemining towndeath of mothercoal minedrunkenness1900s
A melancholic, intimate family drama set in an Edwardian mining town, exploring the suffocating bonds between mother and son amid forbidden desire and class constraint.
The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.
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Mary Ure
Clara Dawes
Trevor Howard
Walter Morel
Dean Stockwell
Paul Morel
Wendy Hiller
Gertrude Morel
Heather Sears
Miriam Leivers
William Lucas
William Morel
Conrad Phillips
Baxter Dawes
Ernest Thesiger
Mr. Hadlock
Donald Pleasence
Mr. Pappleworth
Rosalie Crutchley
Mrs. Leivers
Sean Barrett
Arthur Morel
Elizabeth Begley
Mrs. Radford
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