Up the Junction (1968)
Country: GB
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 119m
Director: Peter Collinson
Cast: Suzy Kendall, Dennis Waterman, Maureen Lipman, Adrienne Posta, Liz Fraser
Synopsis:
A Chelsea girl moves to Battersea and gets a job at a confectionery packer's, and digs in a Victorian terrace, in order to get away from the shallow hypocrisy of her native environment. However, in spite of the authenticity and zest for life she encounters, she finds that poverty leads to squalor and criminality.
Review:
One of those curios in which the 60s abounded: a BBC play turned into a Paramount movie, one of many productions organised by Hollywood's London offices at the time, with widescreen and Technicolor (cf. To Sir, with Love). Consequently, what ought to feel like British New Wave or Ken Loach looks (and sounds) nothing like it, and those London accents ('Ere...)! That said, Kendall is remarkably good, and some of her scenes with Waterman skewer the mutual incomprehension of those with or without money, who would rather exchange places.
Country: GB
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 119m
Director: Peter Collinson
Cast: Suzy Kendall, Dennis Waterman, Maureen Lipman, Adrienne Posta, Liz Fraser
Synopsis:
A Chelsea girl moves to Battersea and gets a job at a confectionery packer's, and digs in a Victorian terrace, in order to get away from the shallow hypocrisy of her native environment. However, in spite of the authenticity and zest for life she encounters, she finds that poverty leads to squalor and criminality.
Review:
One of those curios in which the 60s abounded: a BBC play turned into a Paramount movie, one of many productions organised by Hollywood's London offices at the time, with widescreen and Technicolor (cf. To Sir, with Love). Consequently, what ought to feel like British New Wave or Ken Loach looks (and sounds) nothing like it, and those London accents ('Ere...)! That said, Kendall is remarkably good, and some of her scenes with Waterman skewer the mutual incomprehension of those with or without money, who would rather exchange places.
Country: GB
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 119m
Director: Peter Collinson
Cast: Suzy Kendall, Dennis Waterman, Maureen Lipman, Adrienne Posta, Liz Fraser
Synopsis:
A Chelsea girl moves to Battersea and gets a job at a confectionery packer's, and digs in a Victorian terrace, in order to get away from the shallow hypocrisy of her native environment. However, in spite of the authenticity and zest for life she encounters, she finds that poverty leads to squalor and criminality.
Review:
One of those curios in which the 60s abounded: a BBC play turned into a Paramount movie, one of many productions organised by Hollywood's London offices at the time, with widescreen and Technicolor (cf. To Sir, with Love). Consequently, what ought to feel like British New Wave or Ken Loach looks (and sounds) nothing like it, and those London accents ('Ere...)! That said, Kendall is remarkably good, and some of her scenes with Waterman skewer the mutual incomprehension of those with or without money, who would rather exchange places.