The Rough and the Smooth
Directed byRobert Siodmak
Written byRobin Maugham (novel)
Audrey Erskine Lindop
Dudley Leslie
Produced byGeorge Minter
Robert Siodmak
StarringNadja Tiller
Tony Britton
William Bendix
Natasha Parry
CinematographyOtto Heller
Edited byGordon Pilkington
Music byDouglas Gamley
Production
company
George Minter Productions
Distributed byRenown Pictures
Release date
October 1959
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Rough and the Smooth (US-title: Portrait of a Sinner) is a 1959 British drama film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Nadja Tiller, Tony Britton, William Bendix and Natasha Parry. The screenplay concerns an archaeologist who has an affair with a German woman, putting his engagement to another woman in jeopardy.[1]

The film was shot at the MGM-British Studios and on location around London.[2]

It was based on the 1951 novel by Robin Maugham. It was distributed in Germany by Gloria Film. In 1961 it was given an American release by American International Pictures.

Plot

In late 1950s London an upper-class archeologist Mike Thompson (Tony Britton) by chance meets a mysterious German woman Ila Hansen (Nadja Tiller) in a bar; later they share a taxi and he takes her back to the house where he lives with his parents. They embark on a torrid love affair during which she constantly lies and deceives him and threatens to ruin his long-term relationship with his fiancee, Margaret Goreham (Natasha Parry).

Cast

Reception

According to Kinematograph Weekly the film performed "better than average" at the British box office in 1959.[3]

References

  1. ^ "The Rough and the Smooth (1959)". BFI | Film & TV Database. 16 April 2009. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 4 February 2010.
  2. ^ Encounter with Siodmak Taylor, Russell. Sight and Sound; London Vol. 28, Iss. 3, (Summer 1959): 180.
  3. ^ Billings, Josh (17 December 1959). "Other better-than-average offerings". Kinematograph Weekly. p. 7.

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Films directed by Robert Siodmak
Works by Audrey Erskine Lindop
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