After a Great War injury leaves her Baronet husband Sir Clifford Chatterley impotent and crippled, his new wife, Constance Chatterley (called Connie) is torn between love for her husband and her own sensual desires. With her husband's consent, even encouragement, even to the point of bearing him an heir, she is open to means of fulfilling her physical needs. She clandestinely observes their gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors, washing himself at his hut, and is immediately attracted, and uses that image to masturbate in bed that very evening. As she later approaches him at his hut openly, he shows disdain for her prying, due to class differences, he being a common laborer, and she a middling aristocrat.
MPAA Rating: | R |
Genre: | Drama, Romance |
Country: | France, United Kingdom |
Produced By: | Menahem Golan, Christopher Pearce, AndrÉ Djaoui, Yoram Globus |
Directed By: | Just Jaeckin |
Written By: | D.H. Lawrence, Marc Behm, Christopher Wicking, Just Jaeckin |
Cast: | Michael Huston, Pascale Rivault, Fran Hunter, Sylvia Kristel, Ann Mitchell, Michael Ryan, John Tynan, Mark Colleano, Elizabeth Spriggs, Bessie Love, Frank Moorey, Peter Bennett, Nicholas Clay, Peter Jaques, Anthony Head, Shane Briant |
In Theaters: | May 07, 1982 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 44 minutes |
Production: | Cine Artist Film GmbH, Cine-Source, London-Cannon Films, Producteurs Associés |
Available On: | Amazon, Vudu |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |