Woman in a Dressing Gown

• Yvonne Mitchell: Amy Preston
• Anthony Quayle: Jim Preston
• Sylvia Syms: Georgie Harlow
• Andrew Ray: Brian Preston

The woman in a dressing gown is a British feature film from the year 1957.

Action

Amy and Jim Preston are a middle aged couple. They live in London with her teenage son Brian in a small, nondescript apartment. Amy is a very likeable person, but is in chaos of everyday life and its budget is not under control. Jim has an affair with his young co-worker Georgie Barlow. He tells his wife that he had to work on Sundays, to meet with Georgie. Georgie is Jim under pressure that he is leaving his wife.

In the evening of this Sunday Jim wants to explain to his wife that he wants to separate from her. Together they go to a pub, but are interrupted by friends, before Jim can start the topic. The next day it is informed by Georgie while working under pressure. When he comes home in the evening, Amy has prepared a special supper for him. However, they come across nothings to a quarrel, during which Jim tells her the way that he wants to separate from her. Amy is completely surprised, she has yet thought that they were a very happy couple. Jim tells her about Georgie, but the conversation is interrupted by the sudden appearance of son Brian with his girlfriend. The young people were wondering. Jim tries to feign normalcy, but Amy locks herself in the bathroom and burst into tears.

The next day, Amy makes the housework and trying to get the messy apartment in the handle. She thinks that it can only be superficial in their marriage crisis. From her son Brian she borrows money and go to the hairdresser. She wants Jim to invite together with Georgie and ask yourself the case against Jim in a positive light.

While Amy prepared the evening with Jim and Georgie, she drinks the way some whiskey, but it is very quickly drunk and collapses. Brian comes home and finds them. He puts his mother to bed. Then finally come Jim and Georgie. Brian is extremely angry at his father and reproaches him to destroy the family. The Drunken Amy is added from the bedroom and attacked Georgie as they would to a wife to steal her husband. Jim and Georgie left the apartment. But on the street come Jim doubts, son and wife behind. He turns around and finds normality. Brian asks him if he could help him with a homework assignment and Amy prepares him a cup of tea.

Background

The British film critic Jeffrey Richards likened The woman in a dressing gown with David Lean film Brief Encounter, but the milieu of social housing. It is the story of ordinary people who throw in a great tragedy. In his brittle realism of this film reminds already on the films of the British New Wave in the early 1960s.

Reviews

• " One middle-aged woman who lets herself go in the false security of become habit marriage comes through the unexpected divorce intention her husband's to the understanding of the necessity to have to conquer new conjugal love and community every day. Exceptionally crafted realistic drama. " - Kabeleins.de ( Filmlexikon )

• " An exceptionally designed, award-winning, discussion watchable film the classy turns the high standards of truthfulness worth seeing. . " - 6000 movies. Critical Notes from the cinema from 1945 to 1958. Handbook V of the Catholic Film Critics, 3rd Edition, Publishing House Altenberg, Dusseldorf 1963, p 123

• "Great Excellent staged and played film supported by a marriage crisis, which decays into resignation. , Of great ethics and wholesome life wisdom. Adults. " - Protestant movie watchers, critics No. 735/1957

The Film Review Board Wiesbaden gave the production the predicate particularly valuable.

Awards

Actress Yvonne Mitchell received for her portrayal of Amy Preston a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1957 as best actress of the festival. J. Lee Thompson also received the FIPRESCI film critic. 1958, the film was awarded the Golden Globe Award as Best Foreign Film.