And Women Shall Weep

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And Women Shall Weep
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Original British quad poster
Directed by John Lemont
Screenplay byJohn Lemont
Leigh Vance
Produced by Norman Williams
Starring Ruth Dunning
Max Butterfield
Gillian Vaughan
Richard O'Sullivan
Cinematography Brendan J. Stafford
Edited by Bernard Gribble
Music by Philip Green
Production
companies
Alliance Film Studios Limited
Ethiro Productions
Distributed by J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors (UK) [1]
Release date
  • 17 April 1960 (1960-04-17)(UK)
Running time
65 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

And Women Shall Weep is a 1960 British drama film directed by John Lemont and starring Ruth Dunning, Max Butterfield and Richard O'Sullivan. [2] [3] It was written by Lemont and Leigh Vance. A mother tries to prevent her younger son being led astray by his delinquent elder brother. [4]

Contents

The title is taken from Charles Kingsley's 1851 poem, Three Fishers.[ citation needed ]

Cast

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This frantic domestic melodrama fails both in its strictures on teenagers and as an orgy of mother-love emotionalism. Its thrills are only too patently geared towards sensationalism, while the character of the mother is overdrawn, overplayed and as in her unnecessary burst of violence at the end as anything but sympathetic." [5]

Kine Weekly wrote: "Taut domestic melodrama, with lttle-tough-guy overtones. ... Ruth Dunning does a first-class job as Mrs. Lumsden, Max Butterfield is every inch the rat as Terry, Richard O'Sullivan acts naturally as false hero-worshipper Godfrey, and Gillian Vaughan tantalises as Brenda, the female of the hoodlum species. Its finale is moving and showmanlike, and the low life backgrounds are suitably varied." [6]

The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film 2/5 stars, writing: "This little British B-movie is given great strength by the leading performance of veteran TV character actress Ruth Dunning. She stars as a widow trying to keep her young son Richard O'Sullivan on the straight and narrow. However, her older son Max Butterfield is beyond help. Slight and overplayed." [7]

References

  1. ↑ Vagg, Stephen (27 June 2025). "Forgotten British Film Studios: The Rank Organisation, 1959". Filmink. Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  2. ↑ "And Women Shall Weep". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  3. ↑ Vagg, Stephen (4 July 2025). "Forgotten British Film Studios: The Rank Organisation, 1960". Filmink. Retrieved 4 July 2025.
  4. ↑ "And Women Shall Weep (1959) - John Lemont - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie.
  5. ↑ "And Women Shall Weep". The Monthly Film Bulletin . 27 (312): 68. 1 January 1960. ProQuest   1305822004.
  6. ↑ "And Women Shall Weep". Kine Weekly . 515 (2740): 25. 7 April 1960. ProQuest   2826289684.
  7. ↑ Radio Times Guide to Films (18th ed.). London: Immediate Media Company. 2017. p. 38. ISBN   9780992936440.
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