Background

Name: Background
Genre: Drama
Released: 1953-11-09
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Valerie Hobson, Philip Friend, Norman Wooland, Janette Scott, Mandy Miller

1953 1 h 20 min

Drama

70%

Audience score2 votes on TMDB

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“When a marriage breaks down, what happens to the children?”

Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the children. When John's old friend Bill professes his love for Barbara, the marriage finally breaks up – causing their three children to react in different ways and their son secretly determined to do Bill harm.

Screenplay: Warren Chetham-Strode
Director: Daniel Birt
Status: Released
Release date: 09/11/1953
Original language: English