Lady Chatterley's Lover (1955 film)

Lady Chatterley's Lover (French: L'Amant de lady Chatterley) is a 1955 French drama film directed by Marc Allégret who co-wrote screenplay with Philippe de Rothschild and Gaston Bonheur, based on the 1928 novel by D. H. Lawrence. In 1955, the film was banned in New York because it "promoted adultery", but it was released in 1959 after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a lower court's decision.^[1]

L'Amant de lady Chatterley
Directed by	Marc Allégret
Written by	Philippe de Rothschild (play) Gaston Bonheur
Screenplay by	Marc Allégret
Based on	Lady Chatterley's Lover
Produced by	Gilbert Cohen-Seat Claude Ganz
Starring	Danielle Darrieux Leo Genn Erno Crisa
Cinematography	Georges Périnal
Edited by	Suzanne de Troeye
Music by	Joseph Kosma
Production companies	Orsay Films Régie du Film
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures (France) Kingsley-International Pictures (US)
Release dates	12 May 1955 (1955-05-12) (France) 21 July 1959 (1959-07-21) (U.S.)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Of the six film adaptations of Lady Chatterley's Lover (two French, two British, and two American) this is the only one to be produced before the legal publication of the unexpurgated edition in 1960. Thus, the producers had only the censored version to work with. The film has a more optimistic ending than Lawrence's book.

Cast

• Danielle Darrieux as Constance Chatterley
• Erno Crisa as Oliver Mellors
• Leo Genn as Sir Clifford Chatterley
• Berthe Tissen as Mrs. Bolton
• Janine Crispin as Hilda
• Jean Murat as Baron Leslie Winter
• Gérard Séty as Michaelis
• Jacqueline Noëlle as Bertha Mellors

See also

• Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981)
• Lady Chatterley (1993)
• Lady Chatterley (2006)