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The Go-Between (film)

The Go-Between is a 1970 British film adaptation of the novel of the same name by L.P. Hartley directed by Joseph Losey and starring Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave, and Edward Fox, among others. The title role was played by Dominic Guard.The screenplay was written by Harold Pinter, the third of his collaborations with Losey. The screenplay is largely faithful to the novel, though intersperses the events of the novel's epilogue with the central narrative and does not include, except through reference in dialogue the novel's opening events.Music for the film was composed by Michel Legrand. The film was shot at Melton Constable and Heydon in Norfolk.The film won the Grand Prix at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. In 1999 it was included on the British Film Institute's list of the 100 best British films.