And Women Shall Weep | |
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Directed by | John Lemont |
Screenplay by | John 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) |
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Running time | 65 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
And Women Shall Weep is a 1960 British drama film directed by John Lemont and starring Ruth Dunning, Max Butterfield and Richard O'Sullivan.[1] A mother tries to prevent her younger son being led astray by his delinquent elder brother.[2]
The title is taken from Charles Kingsley's 1851 poem, Three Fishers.[citation needed]
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."[3]