The Go-Between (1971 film) The Go-Between (1971 film) The Go-Between is a 1971 British romantic drama film directed by Joseph Losey. Its screenplay, by Harold Pinter, is an adaptation of the 1953 novel "The Go-Between" by L. P. Hartley. The film stars Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave and Dominic Guard. It won the Grand Prix at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. The story follows a young boy named Leo Colston (Dominic Guard), who in the year 1900 is a guest of his wealthy school friend, Marcus Maudsley (Richard Gibson), to spend the summer holidays at his family's Norfolk country house. While
The Go-Between (1971 film) not in profit. An enthusiastic John Russell Taylor wrote in "The Times" that, "Up to now, "Accident" was without argument Losey's best film; now in "The Go-Between" it has a serious contender for the title. And everything is achieved by apparently doing the absolute minimum." Charles Champlain in the "Los Angeles Times" wrote after the US premiere in November 1971 that "The Go-Between" was one of the best films of the previous six years. Andrew Sarris in the "Village Voice" labelled it the best film of the year. Writing in 1985, Joanne Klein saw the filmscript "as a major stylistic