The Go-Between (1971 film) envisaged Alec Guinness and Margaret Leighton in the leads and employed Nancy Mitford to write a script. L.P. Hartley later claimed Korda had no real intention to make a film of the book - he kept the rights hoping to re-sell them at a profit. Hartley says "I was so annoyed when I heard of this that I put a curse on him and he died, almost the next morning." Joseph Losey was interested in filming the novel. He tried to get financing for a version in 1963 after "The Servant" and says Pinter wrote "two thirds of a script".
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