Rapture (1965 film)

Rapture

Directed by	John Guillermin
Screenplay by	Ennio Flaiano Stanley Mann
Based on	Rapture in My Rags by Phyllis Hastings
Starring	Melvyn Douglas Patricia Gozzi Dean Stockwell
Music by	Georges Delerue
Cinematography	Marcel Grignon
Edited by	Max Benedict Françoise Diot
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release dates	8 November 1965 (1965-11-08)
Running time	104 minutes
Country	France United States
Language	French English

Rapture (French: La fleur de l'âge) is a 1965 French-American film directed by John Guillermin, and starring Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Gozzi, and Dean Stockwell.

Plot

Agnes, a lonely teenage girl and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farmhouse in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up their relationship.^[1]

Cast

Melvyn Douglas as Frederick Larbaud
Patricia Gozzi as Agnes Larbaud
Dean Stockwell as Joseph
Gunnel Lindblom as Karen

Reception

Time magazine called it a "penumbral play of love against loneliness" that "boost[s] the artistic stock of English director John Guillermin" and "clinch[es] the reputation of France's 15-year-old Patricia Gozzi."^[2]

References

↑ Rapture at the Internet Movie Database
↑ "Darkness in Brittany". Time. August 27, 1965. Retrieved 2011-11-05.

External links

Rapture at the Internet Movie Database
Rapture at Rotten Tomatoes

Films directed by John Guillermin

High Jinks in Society (1949)
Torment (1950)
The Smart Aleck (1951)
Two on the Tiles (1951)
Four Days (1951)
Song of Paris (1952)
Miss Robin Hood (1952)
Operation Diplomat (1953)
Strange Stories (1953)
Adventure in the Hopfields (1954)
The Crowded Day (1954)
Tormenta (1955)
Thunderstorm (1956)
Town on Trial (1957)
The Whole Truth (1958)
I Was Monty's Double (1958)
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959)
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)
Never Let Go (1960)
Waltz of the Toreadors (1962)
Tarzan Goes to India (1962)
Guns at Batasi (1964)
Rapture (1965)
The Blue Max (1966)
P.J. (1968)
House of Cards (1968)
The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
El Condor (1970)
Skyjacked (1972)
Shaft in Africa (1973)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
King Kong (1976)
Death on the Nile (1978)
Crossover (1980)
Sheena (1984)
King Kong Lives (1986)
The Tracker (1988)

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