Joanna
Cast & Crew
Michael Sarne
Genevieve Waite
Christian Doermer
Calvin Lockhart
Donald Sutherland
Glenna Forster-jones
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Joanna, a young Englishwoman, leaves her home in the provinces and goes to London to study art. She soon befriends Hendrik Casson, one of her teachers, and Beryl, a beautiful black woman who lives off wealthy men and welfare. Following a short-lived affair with Hendrik, Joanna takes up with the impoverished Dominic while Beryl becomes involved with the wealthy Lord Peter Sanderson. The quartet visit Peter's home in Morocco, and the young lord tells Joanna that he is dying of leukemia and that his illness has taught him that everyone needs to be committed to others' lives in order to fulfill his own. Peter sponsors a showing of Hendrik's paintings, but he dies shortly after the opening. Meanwhile, Dominic breaks with Joanna because of her promiscuity. Following Peter's funeral, Joanna becomes the mistress of Beryl's brother Gordon, who owns a nightclub purchased with Peter's money. Because of trouble with the protection racket, Gordon gets mixed up in a gangland vendetta in which he is beaten savagely by gangsters. In getting revenge on the gang, Gordon kills one of them. Accused of murder, he tries to escape but is apprehended, tried, and sentenced to prison. Joanna, who is carrying his child, remembers Peter's words about commitment and decides against an abortion, preferring instead to return to her father's country home and await the birth of her child.
Director
Michael Sarne
Cast
Genevieve Waite
Christian Doermer
Calvin Lockhart
Donald Sutherland
Glenna Forster-jones
David Scheuer
Marda Vanne
Geoffrey Morris
Michele Cooke
Manning Wilson
Clifton Jones
Dan Caulfield
Michael Chow
Anthony Ainley
Jane Bradbury
Fiona Lewis
Jayne Sofiano
Elizabeth Maclennan
Richard Hurndall
Annette Robertson
Jenny Hanley
John Gulliver
Brenda Kempner
Peter Porteous
David Collings
Sibylla Kay
Crew
David Anderson
Shura Cohen
Delta Sound
Ann Edwards
Douglas Fenner
Ronnie Fox Rogers
Arthur Greenslade
Virginia Hamilton-kearse
Gordon Kay
Ben Kendall
Tony Kovacs
Caroline Langley
Walter Lassally
Michael S. Laughlin
Mike Le Mare
Leonard
Rod Mckuen
Rod Mckuen
David Muir
Peter Nodwell
Lucy O'sullivan
Bill Pearce
Bill Roberts
Jim Roddan
Michael Sarne
Jack Segal
Wally Stott
The Swarbricks
Michael Townsend
Norman Wanstall
Robert Wells
Sue West
Michael Wield
Film Details
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Notes
Produced in Great Britain in 1968; running time: 113 min, cut from 122 min. Filmed in London and Tangiers.
Miscellaneous Notes
The United Kingdom
Released in United States Fall November 1968
Released in United States Fall November 1968
