Age of Innocence (1977 film)

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Age of Innocence
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Directed by Alan Bridges
Written by Ratch Wallace
Produced byDeanne Judson
George Willoughby
Starring David Warner
Honor Blackman
Trudy Young
Lois Maxwell
CinematographyBrian West
Edited byMichael MacLaverty
Music byMax Urban
Production
companies
Judson Pictures Incorporated
The Rank Organisation
Distributed byJ. Arthur Rank Film Distributors
Danton Films
Release date
  • 28 April 1977 (1977-04-28)
Running time
101 minutes
CountriesCanada
United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
BudgetUS$850,000

Age of Innocence, also known as Ragtime Summer, [1] is a 1977 Canadian-British film directed by Alan Bridges and starring David Warner, Honor Blackman and Trudy Young. It is not based on the novel, The Age of Innocence . [2] [3] [4]

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Plot

In 1921 Canada, a young British man, Henry Buchanan, is a teacher at a local boys' school but his pacifist views, and his record as a conscientious objector during World War I, stir up controversy. [5]

Cast

Production

Filmed on 35 mm in July and August 1976. Filming locations included Lang Pioneer Village Museum, Burleigh Falls, Lakefield College School, and Lakefield, Ontario. [7]

Reception

In Directors in British and Irish Cinema: A Reference Companion (2006), Robert Murphy said that the film explored romantic sensibility and sexual repression. [8]

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