American Friends
An education in love
Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline and her companion Elinor, the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of Elinor, and both the women are drawn to him. Back at Oxford he is nevertheless taken aback when they arrive unannounced. Women are not allowed in the College grounds, let alone the rooms. Indeed any liaison, however innocent, is frowned on by the upstanding Fellows.
Direction
Screenplay
Cast
Bryan Pringle
Haskell
Fred Pearson
Hapgood
Michael Palin
Reverend Francis Ashby
Alfred Molina
Oliver Syme
Susan Denaker
Mrs. Cantrell
Jonathan Firth
Cable
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Ian Dunn
Gowers
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Robert Eddison
Rushden - The President
David Calder
Pollitt
Simon Jones
Anderson
Georges Delerue
Composer
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Philip Bonham-Carter
Cinematographer