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A Severed Head (1971)
Directed by Dick Clement
“A Severed Head is not a horror story ... It's something else!”
Comedy · 1h 38m
Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, wife of upper-crust wine dealer Martin, falls in love with her husband's best friend, noted psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. While both Palmer and Antonia would like to remain in Martin's life, he has some secrets of his own — namely, a mistress called Georgie, whom his womanizing brother also desires. All the while, Palmer's sister Honor seems to know everyone's business.
Cast
Lee Remick
Antonia Lynch-Gibbon
Richard Attenborough
Palmer Anderson
Ian Holm
Martin Lynch-Gibbon
Claire Bloom
Honor Klein
Jennie Linden
Georgie Hands
Clive Revill
Alexander Lynch-Gibbon
Ann Firbank
Rosemary Lynch-Gibbon
Rosamund Greenwood
Miss Seelhaft
C
Constance Lorne
Miss Hernshaw
Robert Gillespie
Winking Patient
K
Katherine Parr
Receptionist
Nerys Hughes
Nurse
Crew
- Director
- Dick Clement
- Screenplay
- Frederic Raphael
- Novel
- Iris Murdoch
- Director of Photography
- Austin Dempster
- Original Music Composer
- Stanley Myers
- Editor
- Peter Weatherley
- Producer
- Alan Ladd Jr.
Details
- Release date
- 1971-01-21
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Winkast Film Productions, Columbia Pictures Corporation