Age of Consent (film)
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| Age of Consent | |
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Age of Consent Video Cover |
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| Directed by | Michael Powell |
| Produced by | Michael Powell James Mason |
| Written by | Norman Lindsay |
| Starring | James Mason Helen Mirren |
| Music by | Peter Sculthorpe |
| Cinematography | Hannes Staudinger |
| Editing by | Anthony Buckley |
| Release date(s) | May 14, 1969 Australia |
| Running time | 103 min |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Age of Consent (1969) is the penultimate feature film directed by British film-maker Michael Powell. It was the film debut of Helen Mirren. The screenplay was adapted from the 1935 novel by Norman Lindsay, and is based on him.
Bradley Monahan (James Mason) is an Australian artist who feels he has become jaded by success and life in New York City. He decides that he needs to regain the edge he had as a young artist and returns to Australia to a small island on the Great Barrier Reef.
There he meets the beautiful Cora Ryan (Helen Mirren) and she becomes his muse, posing for him in the equally beautiful surroundings. But there are questions about Cora's age and problems from her grandmother (Neva Carr-Glynn) and Bradley's old friend Nat Kelly (Jack MacGowran).
| Actor | Role |
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| James Mason | Bradley Monahan |
| Helen Mirren | Cora Ryan |
| Jack MacGowran | Nat Kelly |
| Neva Carr-Glyn | Ma Ryan |
| Andonia Katsaros | Isabel Marley |
| Michael Boddy | Hendricks |
| Harold Hopkins | Ted Farrell |
| Slim DeGrey | Cooley |
| Max Meldrum | TV Interviewer |
| Frank Thring | Godfrey, the Art Dealer |
| Clarissa Kaye-Mason | Meg |
| Judith McGrath | Grace (as Judy McGrath) |
- Age of Consent at the Internet Movie Database
- Reviews and articles at the Powell & Pressburger Pages
- Age of Consent at the National Film and Sound Archive
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| The films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | |
| 1930s | The Spy in Black • The Lion Has Wings (not Pressburger) |
| 1940s | Contraband • An Airman's Letter to His Mother • Forty-Ninth Parallel • One of Our Aircraft is Missing • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp • The Volunteer • A Canterbury Tale • I Know Where I'm Going! • A Matter of Life and Death • Black Narcissus • The Red Shoes • The Small Back Room |
| 1950s | The Elusive Pimpernel • Gone to Earth • The Tales of Hoffmann • Oh... Rosalinda!! • The Battle of the River Plate • Ill Met by Moonlight |
| 1960s | Peeping Tom (not Pressburger) • They're a Weird Mob • Age of Consent (not Pressburger) |
| 1970s | The Boy Who Turned Yellow |