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 Philosopher's Stone (novel) Stone" is a story that is a teaching; but it is also a teaching that is a story. It remains one of Colin Wilson's best novels to date." In his 1982 book "The Novels of Colin Wilson", Nicolas Tredell also made comparisons to "The Mind Parasites", and wrote that ""The Philosopher's Stone" is a much more substantial and, in some ways, more satisfactory novel". He criticized the second part of the novel: "With two higher men on his hands, and a lot of the novel still to go, Wilson tries to show them in action. He runs into difficulties, however.