Bitter Harvest (1963)

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Bitter Harvest is a 1963 British kitchen sink drama film directed by Peter Graham Scott and starring Janet Munro and John Stride. It was written by Ted Willis based on The Siege of Pleasure, the 1932 second volume in the trilogy 20,000 Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton.

Production

It started filming on 10 September 1962 under the title Everything I Have after originally being known as Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, with Peter Cotes directing. That same month Patrick Hamilton died. Cotes was an experienced theatre and television director who had worked several times with Ted Willis, author of the script for Bitter Harvest. He had also made a feature The Young and the Guilty with star Janet Munro.

There was some location filming in Cardiff followed by work at Hampstead Heath. Two weeks into filming Cotes was fired by producer Julian Wintle saying he was dissatisfied with the Hamstead Heath footage. Cotes told Wintle "you cannot do this, it will ruin me in films." He was nonetheless let go, paid his fee of £4,000.

According to Cotes, "It was not a happy experience in the preliminary stages, and as a film was poorly adapted from Hamilton's fine novel. It was eventually made without me." He added, the film "had script trouble and was nearly abandoned before it was scheduled to begin" and "was a bitter experience from every angle."

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