The L-Shaped Room Tom Bell, a new actor who plays the writer on a par with her. Particularly she must share it with the remarkable young director Bryan Forbes, who also wrote the screenplay from a novel by Lynne Reid Banks.Mr. Forbes is a sometime actor whose first directorial job was last year's beautiful and sensitive "Whistle Down the Wind." In this little picture he has achieved much the same human quality, with shadings of spiritual devotion, as in that." The L-Shaped Room The L-Shaped Room is a 1962 British drama film, directed by Bryan Forbes, which tells the story of a young
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