Quest for Love (1971 film)
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| Directed by | Ralph Thomas |
| Produced by | Peter Eton |
| Written by | Terence Feely |
| Based on | Random Quest by John Wyndham |
| Starring | Joan Collins Tom Bell Denholm Elliott Laurence Naismith |
| Music by | Eric Rogers |
| Cinematography | Ernest Steward |
| Edited by | Roy Watts |
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Production
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Peter Rogers Productions
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| Distributed by | J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors (United Kingdom) |
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Release dates
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9 September 1971 (London) (UK) |
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Running time
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87 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Quest for Love is a 1971 British romantic science fiction drama film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Joan Collins, Tom Bell and Denholm Elliott. It is based on the 1954 short story Random Quest by John Wyndham.[1]
Plot
An explosion at a demonstration of his new invention catapults physicist Colin Trafford into a parallel universe - an identical world, but with subtle differences, where John F. Kennedy is Secretary General of the League of Nations and World War II and the Vietnam War never happened. Here he's a famous author with a beautiful wife with whom he instantly falls in love, but for whom his alternate self never cared. But just as suddenly, another accident propels Trafford back to our world where he is caught in a race against time in a quest to find the woman he loves. Little does she know, however, that her life depends on him finding her.
Cast
- Joan Collins - Ottilie / Tracy Fletcher
- Tom Bell - Colin Trafford
- Denholm Elliott - Tom Lewis
- Laurence Naismith - Sir Henry Larnstein
- Lyn Ashley - Jennifer
- Juliet Harmer - Geraldine Lambert
- Neil McCallum - Jimmy
- Geraldine Gardner - Sylvia
- Jeremy Child - Dougie Raynes
- Ray McAnally - Jack Kahn
- Dudley Foster - Grimshaw
- Geraldine Moffat - Stella
- Simon Ward - Jeremy
- David Weston - Johnny Prescott
- Drewe Henley - Man
- Edward Cast - Jenkins
- John Hallam - Jonathan Keene
- Angus MacKay - Dr. Rankin
- Bernard Horsfall - Telford
- Philip Stone - Mason
- Sam Kydd - Taximan
Critical reception
TV Guide noted, "an unusual science fiction tale that doesn't completely work but does hold interest...The story gets complicated, but the direction juggles the separate worlds without much trouble. Bell's performance makes this project work. He's believable and earnest and brings it off with a guiding clarity";[2] while Time Out called the film "puerile sci-fi romance";[3] but DVD Talk wrote, "a surprisingly effective romance with just the barest sci-fi framework...it succeeds in large part due to the two leads' believable underplaying. Bell is on the right note from the beginning of the film, never overplaying his hand...Collins, whom too many people know only from TV's Dynasty, is simply wonderful here, creating a fully-dimensional character." [4]
References
- ↑ QUEST FOR LOVE (1971), BFI
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