The Pumpkin Eater

Another flashback from Jo (Anne Bancroft), alone in her London house, introducing Maggie Smith as "Philpot," officially a distant friend of her husband, then taking her brood for a walk in the park, in The Pumpkin Eater, 1964, directed by Jack Clayton, with Peter Finch and James Mason.

Following the credits, more of Anne Bancroft as disillusioned wife Jo, in her London home, joined by husband Jake (Peter Finch), opening director Jack Clayton's The Pumpkin Eater, 1964, also starring James Mason, from the Penelope Mortimer novel and Harold Pinter's screenplay.

At the urging of Jo (Anne Bancroft), Bob (James Mason) and actress wife Beth (Janine Gray) are among the invitees at a party she's hosting with screenwriter husband Jake (Peter Finch), popular character Gerald Sim as one voluble guest, in The Pumpkin Eater, 1964, directed by Jack Clayton.

Director Jack Clayton's hard edit, to Cedric Hardwicke whom we learn is the father of Jo (Anne Bancroft) and who thinks Jake (Peter Finch) is nuts to marry her, after she left her previous husband and brought along five children, in The Pumpkin Eater, 1964, from the Penelope Mortimer novel.

Anne Bancroft won best actress at the Cannes Film Festival as a wife having a nervous breakdown in Harold Pinter's The Pumpkin Eater (1964).