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A Matter of Innocence

Original title: Pretty Polly
  • 1967
  • 1h 42m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
220
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Hayley Mills and Trevor Howard in A Matter of Innocence (1967)
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Miss Polly decides to spend a few months with her wealthy spinster aunt as a travelling companion. While in India, her aunt's demise leaves her alone to pursue her freedom and explore an arm... Read allMiss Polly decides to spend a few months with her wealthy spinster aunt as a travelling companion. While in India, her aunt's demise leaves her alone to pursue her freedom and explore an arm's-length romance with a local youth. This film is a tender, fun-loving, and poetic repres... Read allMiss Polly decides to spend a few months with her wealthy spinster aunt as a travelling companion. While in India, her aunt's demise leaves her alone to pursue her freedom and explore an arm's-length romance with a local youth. This film is a tender, fun-loving, and poetic representation of that transition from youth to young womanhood.

  • Director
    • Guy Green
  • Writers
    • Noël Coward
    • Keith Waterhouse
    • Willis Hall
  • Stars
    • Hayley Mills
    • Brenda de Banzie
    • Dorothy Alison
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • IMDb RATING
    6.1/10
    220
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Guy Green
    • Writers
      • Noël Coward
      • Keith Waterhouse
      • Willis Hall
    • Stars
      • Hayley Mills
      • Brenda de Banzie
      • Dorothy Alison
    • 6User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro

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    Hayley Mills
    Hayley Mills
    • Polly Barlow
    Brenda de Banzie
    Brenda de Banzie
    • Eva Innes-Hook
    Dorothy Alison
    Dorothy Alison
    • Mrs. Barlow
    Peter Bayliss
    Peter Bayliss
    • Critch
    Patricia Routledge
    Patricia Routledge
    • Miss Gudgeon
    Shashi Kapoor
    Shashi Kapoor
    • Amaz Hudeen
    Trevor Howard
    Trevor Howard
    • Robert Thorne-Hook
    Kalen Liu
    • Lorelei
    Toni Murphy
    • Lady Tourist
    Dick Patterson
    Dick Patterson
    • Rick Preston
    Ric Young
    Ric Young
    • Lim Kee
    • (as Eric Young)
    Sarah Abdullah
    • Bad Girl
    Anthony Chinn
    Anthony Chinn
    • Japanese Proprietor
    S.Y. Han
    • Oculist
    David Prosser
    • Ambrose
    Colonel Fairbanks
    • Minister
    Fred Bryant
    • First Sailor
    Lorne Polanski
    • Second Sailor
    • Director
      • Guy Green
    • Writers
      • Noël Coward
      • Keith Waterhouse
      • Willis Hall
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    • Trivia
      Free from her six-year "Disney" contract that forced her to play younger than she was, Hayley Mills was 21 when she played 21-year-old Polly Barlow.
    • Connections
      References The Wizard of Oz (1939)
    • Soundtracks
      Pretty Polly
      Music by Michel Legrand
      Lyrics by Don Black
      Sung by Matt Monro
      [Played over the opening credits]

    User reviews6

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    3/10

    Boring Hayley Mills Movie

    Hayley Mills is my all-time favorite actress but her performance in this movie was mediocre at best. Sure, she looked STUNNING but her acting seemed forced and not sincere.

    The characters in this movie were VERY uninteresting and it was hard to understand what Trevor Howard, Shashi Kapoor, Kalen Liu and some of the others were saying with their strong accents and speaking really fast.

    This movie's plot and scenery seemed to be all over the map and really had little direction and emotion which left me really BORED!!! The soundtrack was fair but nothing special but I did like Matt Monro's singing of the title song.

    Hayley's last GREAT movie was "The Trouble With Angels" made the year before (1966) but all of her movies after that were never hits in the USA. The public never accepted her new image and thus, she will be forever remembered most of all for her Disney movies and for "The Trouble With Angels".
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    • Release date
      • January 24, 1968 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Languages
      • English
      • Hindi
      • Japanese
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Pretty Polly
    • Filming locations
      • Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK(Studio)
    • Production companies
      • George-Granat Productions
      • Universal Pictures
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 42 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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