The Go-Between (2015 film) The Go-Between (2015 film) The Go-Between is a 2015 British romantic drama film based on the 1953 novel "The Go-Between" by L. P. Hartley. It was filmed at Englefield House in Berkshire. Leo, an elderly man, is travelling back to the place where he spent the summer of 1900 as the guest of a much wealthier school friend, Marcus Maudsley. On his journey he recalls the events surrounding his original visit, during which he had celebrated his thirteenth birthday and also become besotted with his friend’s older sister Marian, whose family strongly hoped that she would marry the local landowner,
The Go-Between (1971 film) Losey was unable to get finance then or again in 1968. "The company had cold feet about the story," said Losey. "It was too tame for the pornographic age. As one man put it, who would be interested in a bit of Edwardian nostalgia? That's idiotic. It is certainly not a romantic or sentimental piece. It has a surface and a coating of romantic melodrama, but it has a bitter core." Losey said he was attracted to the novel because it was about "the terrible sense of shortness of any human life, the sense of totality of life." Pinter's screenplay