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The Rainbow is a 1989
1989 in film

Events* "Batman " is released on June 23rd, and went on to become the biggest blockbuster of the year; Grossing over $250 million at the box office....
 drama film
Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth characterization of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenome...
 directed by Ken Russell
Ken Russell

Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell, known as Ken Russell , is an England film director. He is known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his controversial style....
. The story, adapted from the D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence

David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an England author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary criticism. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization....
 novel, is a prequel to Lawrence's Women in Love
Women in Love

Women in Love is a novel by United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920 in literature. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow , and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula....
, which was also made into a film by Russell in 1969. The screenplay, written by Russell and his wife, Vivian, leaves out roughly two-thirds of the original novel to concentrate on the Ursula Brangwen character.

Sammi Davis stars as "Ursula", a sheltered young schoolteacher who's taken under the wing (sexually and otherwise) by the more sophisticated "Winifred" (Amanda Donohoe).






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The Rainbow is a 1989
1989 in film

Events* "Batman " is released on June 23rd, and went on to become the biggest blockbuster of the year; Grossing over $250 million at the box office....
 drama film
Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth characterization of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenome...
 directed by Ken Russell
Ken Russell

Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell, known as Ken Russell , is an England film director. He is known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his controversial style....
. The story, adapted from the D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence

David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an England author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary criticism. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization....
 novel, is a prequel to Lawrence's Women in Love
Women in Love

Women in Love is a novel by United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920 in literature. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow , and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula....
, which was also made into a film by Russell in 1969. The screenplay, written by Russell and his wife, Vivian, leaves out roughly two-thirds of the original novel to concentrate on the Ursula Brangwen character.

Sammi Davis stars as "Ursula", a sheltered young schoolteacher who's taken under the wing (sexually and otherwise) by the more sophisticated "Winifred" (Amanda Donohoe). Glenda Jackson appears as the mother of the character she played in Women in Love.

The film is notable for its sensitive portrayal of a lesbian love affair and its extensive and poetically filmed outdoor nude scenes with Davis and Donohoe. Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide summary: "Many beautiful and striking moments don't quite gel, but still worth watching."

Cast

  • Sammi Davis
    Sammi Davis

    Sammi Davis is a United Kingdom actress.She gained considerable praise for her performance in Ken Russell's The Rainbow . She also had significant roles in Mike Hodges' A Prayer For The Dying and John Boorman's Hope and Glory as well as a leading role in the Emmy Award-winning American television series, Homefront ....
     - Ursula Brangwen
  • Paul McGann
    Paul McGann

    Paul McGann is an England actor who made his name on the BBC serial The Monocled Mutineer, in which he played the lead role. He is also known for his role in Withnail and I, and for portraying the Eighth Doctor in the Doctor Who and subsequent tie-in media....
     - Anton Skrebensky
  • Amanda Donohoe
    Amanda Donohoe

    Amanda Donohoe is an England actress....
     - Winifred Inger
  • Christopher Gable
    Christopher Gable

    Christopher Gable was an England Ballet, Choreography, and actor.Born in London, Gable studied at the Royal Ballet School. He joined the touring section of the The Royal Ballet in 1957, became a soloist in 1959, and a principal in 1961....
     - Will Brangwen
  • David Hemmings
    David Hemmings

    David Hemmings was an England film actor and film director, whose most famous role was the photographer in Blowup. In his later acting career, he was known for his distinctive eyebrows, and gravelly voice....
     - Uncle Henry
  • Glenda Jackson
    Glenda Jackson

    Glenda May Jackson, Order of the British Empire, is a two-times Academy Award winning United Kingdom actor and politician, currently Labour Party Member of Parliament for the constituency of Hampstead and Highgate in the London Borough of Camden....
     - Anna Brangwen
  • Dudley Sutton
    Dudley Sutton

    Dudley Sutton is an England actor....
     - MacAllister
  • Jim Carter - Mr. Harby
  • Judith Paris - Miss Harby
  • Kenneth Colley
    Kenneth Colley

    Kenneth Colley is an England actor. A long-time character actor, he came to wider prominence through his role as Admiral Piett in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi....
     - Mr. Brunt
  • Glenda McKay
    Glenda McKay

    Glenda McKay is a United Kingdom actress.She is best known for playing the character of Rachel Hughes on the popular ITV soap Emmerdale from 1988 until the character was killed off in 1999....
     - Gudrun Brangwen
  • Mark Owen - Jim Richards
  • Ralph Nossek - Vicar
  • Nicola Stephenson
    Nicola Stephenson

    Nicola Stephenson is an English actress. She is known mainly for her roles in television, which include Margaret Clemence in Brookside, Julie Fitzjohn/Bradford in Holby City, Suzie Davidson in Clocking Off, Jackie in ITV's Christmas Lights/Northern Lights/City Lights , and Sarah Williams in BBC's The Chase ....
     - Ethel
  • Molly Russell - Molly Brangwen
  • Alan Edmondson - Billy Brangwen
  • Rupert Russell
    Rupert Russell

    Born Rupert Blanc-Rimmer van Horskok in 1976 in Rotherham. Rupert Russell is an England playwright, actor, and comedian, and a member of the comedy troupe The Hollow Men ....
     - Rupert Brangwen
  • Richard Platt
    Richard Platt

    British author Richard Platt was born in Northumberland in 1953. He started writing when aged 27 with how-to articles and books about photography. By 1992 he had begun writing non-fiction books for children, initially collaborating with Stephen Biesty in a successful series that capitalized on the illustrator's facility for cross-sectional drawings...
     - Chauffeur
  • Bernard Latham - Uncle Alfred
  • John Tams
    John Tams

    John Tams is an England actor, singer, songwriter, composer and musician....
     - Uncle Frank
  • Zoe Brown - Ursula (aged 3)
  • Amy Evans
    Amy Evans

    Amy Evans was a Wales singer and actress known for her performances in oratorio, recitals, and opera. Living until the age of 98, Evans was the last surviving original cast member in any Savoy Opera....
     - Baby Gudrun
  • Sam McMullen - Winifred's Baby


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