Personal Affair

Personal Affair

🎞️ Movie 82 min GB
โ˜… 6.5 /10 1953

It was too late to run!

Barbara Vining is 17 years old and living with her family in a 1950s postwar English village. Her father, Henry, is a newspaper journalist and mother, Vi, a homemaker; her maiden aunt, Evelyn also lives in their home. Barbara attends a coeducational comprehensive school. And, for the first time in her life, Barbara is in love. The object of her affection is a sensitive and handsome gentleman, Stephen Barlow, who teaches Latin to the graduating class at her school. Barlow is an Englishman, married to a beautiful, but very insecure and lonely American lady, Kay. Barbara disappears after a tutoring session at the Barlow home and is 'in absentia' for three days. During that time, Barlow is asked to resign and nearly cautioned by the police, as rumors have run amok throughout the village. Many people, including his wife, are uncertain regarding what to think. Was it simply a case of unrequited love or did Stephen Barlow have a torrid affair with young Barbara? Is she dead by her own hand, is she murdered or has she simply disappeared? When three days elapse, Barbara appears and many questions are answered. But, in the tradition of British film, many more questions remain.

Cast

Gene Tierney
Gene Tierney
Kay Barlow
Leo Genn
Leo Genn
Stephen Barlow
Pamela Brown
Pamela Brown
Evelyn
Walter Fitzgerald
Walter Fitzgerald
Henry Vining
Megs Jenkins
Megs Jenkins
Vi Vining
Michael Hordern
Michael Hordern
Headmaster Griffith
Thora Hird
Thora Hird
Mrs. Usher
Glynis Johns
Glynis Johns
Barbara Vining
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John Adams
Police Constable
Pamela Binns
Pamela Binns
Young Sally
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William Alwyn
Composer
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Reginald H. Wyer
Cinematographer