Set in an industrial Lancashire town, A Kind Of Loving tells the bittersweet tale of Vic Brown (Alan Bates), a young draughtsman who falls for Ingrid (June Ritchie) – a typist who works in the same factory – gets her pregnant, and is trapped into marriage and forced to live with her protective, domineering mother (Thora Hird).
The film is sharply observed in documentary style and with plenty of salty northern dialogue.
Director John Schlesinger explores the landscape of their lives, both interior and exterior, with some sensitivity, but the feeling remains that they are representatives of a particular kind of social thinking rather than living, breathing people.
Vic Brown Alan Bates
Ingrid Rothwell
June Ritchie
Mrs Rothwell
Thora Hird
Mr Geoffrey Brown
Bert Palmer
Jim Brown
Malcolm Patton
Mrs Brown
Gwen Nelson
Christine Harris
Pat Keen
David Harris
David Mahlowe
Conroy
Jack Smethurst
Jeff
James Bolam Dorothy
Patsy Rowlands
Les
Michael Deacon Phoebe Annette Robertson Althorpe
Fred Ferris Whymper
Leonard Rossiter Jim Brown
Malcolm Patton
Laisterdyke
Norman Heyes Mrs Oliphant
Kathy Staff
Director
John Schlesinger
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