The L-Shaped Room
7.3
“Sex is not a forbidden word”
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London boarding house, Jane befriends the odd group of inhabitants and starts an affair with one boarder, Toby. As Jane's pregnancy threatens her new relationship, and the reality of single motherhood approaches, she is forced to decide what to do about both her baby and her budding romance.
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Cast
24 people
Leslie Caron
Jane Fosset
Known for
An American in Paris
Gigi
Tom Bell
Toby
Known for
Holocaust
Prime Suspect
Brock Peters
Johnny
Known for
To Kill a Mockingbird
Soylent Green
Bernard Lee
Charlie
Known for
From Russia with Love
The Third Man
Avis Bunnage
Doris
Known for
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Patricia Phoenix
Sonia
Known for
Coronation Street
Cicely Courtneidge
Mavis
Known for
The Wrong Box
Verity Edmett
Jane II
Also in
The Debussy Film
Z-Cars
Anthony Booth
Youth in Street
Known for
The Girl with a Pistol
Priest
Harry Locke
Newsagent
Known for
The Creeping Flesh
Arabesque
Ellen Dryden
Girl in Newsagent's
Also in
Emma
Emlyn Williams
Dr. Weaver
Known for
Ivanhoe
Jamaica Inn
Bryan Forbes Director · Lynne Reid Banks Author John Barry Composer
Worldwide gross $1M · First release November 20, 1962 · Produced in United Kingdom
Box office
Worldwide gross
$1,000,000
Production
Romulus Films
Production
British Lion Films
Production
Columbia Pictures
Studio
United Kingdom
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United Kingdom · November 20, 1962
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Russia
July 19, 1965 · Theatrical
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