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The Return of the Soldier (1982)
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14 February 1985 (USA) morePlot:
Kitty Baldry (Julie Chirstie) is a haughty society queen with a tunneled view of life. Kitty's complacency is rocked when her husband... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
Dull, Dull, Dull moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Julie Christie | ... | Kitty Baldry | |
| Glenda Jackson | ... | Margaret Grey | |
| Ann-Margret | ... | Jenny Baldry | |
| Alan Bates | ... | Chris Baldry | |
| Ian Holm | ... | Doctor Anderson | |
| Frank Finlay | ... | William Grey | |
| Jeremy Kemp | ... | Frank | |
| Hilary Mason | ... | Ward | |
| John Sharp | ... | Pearson | |
| Elizabeth Edmonds | ... | Emery | |
| Valerie Whittington | ... | Beatrice | |
| Patsy Byrne | ... | Mrs. Plummer | |
| Amanda Grinling | ... | Alexandra | |
| Edward de Souza | ... | Edward | |
| Michael Cochrane | ... | Stephen |
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Rated PG for some violent images and language.Parents Guide:
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Sussex, England, UKFun Stuff
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This is the first film in the U.K. to be rated with the new PG certificate moreFAQ
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The cliché of the shell-shocked soldier home from the war is here given dull treatment. Pity a splendid cast, acting to the limits of their high talents, can't redeem 'The Return of the Soldier' from its stiff-collared inability to move the viewer to emotional involvement. Best moments, as another reviewer noted, come when Glenda Jackson is on screen; but even Jackson's crackling good cinematic power can't pull this film's chestnuts from its cold, never warmed hearth. Ann-Margret, she of sex-kitten repute and too often accused of lacking acting ability, finds her actual and rather profound abilities wasted here - despite her speaking with a nigh-flawless Middlesex accent. The hackneyed score, redolent of many lackluster TV miniseries' slathered-on saccharine emotionalism, is at irritating odds with the emotional remoteness of the script, blocking, and overbaked formalism of the direction; except for its score and corseted script and direction, 'The Return of the Soldier' has all the right bits but it fails to make them work together.