Private Road
- Original title
- Private Road
- Year
- 1971
- Running time
- 89 min.
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Susan Penhaligon
- Bruce Robinson
- Michael Feast
- Robert Brown
- George Fenton
- Kathleen Byron
- Patricia Cutts
- Trevor Adams
- Susan Brodick
- Paul Harper
- Catherine Howe
- Pamela Moiseiwitsch
- Julia Wright
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama
- Synopsis
- Peter Morrisey (Bruce Robinson) is an author who has just published his first novel. He meets receptionist, Ann Halpern (Susan Penhaligon) and fall in love. They spend some time in a cottage in Scotland living an idyllic pastoral life, but return to London. Peter gets a job at an advertising agency as a copywriter. Ann becomes pregnant and Peter asks her to marry him but she refuses. To Peter's shock, Ann decides to have an abortion which is performed by her father. After a spell in hospital Ann returns home and her father gives her a house. Peter returns to his flat alone, still thinking that he will marry Ann. With his friend Stephen, Peter breaks into an office block and steals a typewriter so he can resume his writing career.
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