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Two Loves

1961 · 1h 36m · Drama · United States of America

So busy with her children... She didn't have time to get married!

American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand. Her experimental teaching methods have won her the love and affection of her pupils and their parents and the admiration of the unhappily married school inspector, Abercrombie. Her personal life, however, is less secure; frightened of love and sexually inhibited, she has always been aloof with men. Eager to break down this barrier is Englishman Paul Lathrope, a somewhat irrational and immature fellow teacher who aspires to be a singer. Though Anna is attracted to him, she refuses to submit to his advances.

Directed by
Charles Walters
Written by
Ben Maddow
Based on the novel by
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Starring
Shirley MacLaine, Laurence Harvey, Jack Hawkins, Nobu McCarthy
6.0Smart score

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based on novel or bookculture clashelementary school teacherfemale teacherfrigidityillegitimacymaorimotorcycle accidentnew zealandspinstersuicide attemptteachingteenage pregnancyunrequited love

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