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The Killing of Sister George movie storyline. “Sister George” is a BBC soap opera character who is “killed off” due to low ratings. The aging actress who portrays Sister George is a lesbian living with a childish middle-aged woman named Childie, who works in a factory when not playing with her doll collection. Conflict arises between the two lovers when the hard-nosed BBC female program director, who told George of her canceled part, also steals Childie away. As consolation for losing both her job and her lover, George is offered the voice part of a puppet cow in a new animated cartoon series.
The Killing of Sister George is a 1968 American black drama film directed by Robert Aldrich and filmed at his Aldrich Studios in Los Angeles. It is based on the 1964 play by British playwright Frank Marcus. In the film, an aging lesbian television actress, June “George” Buckridge (Beryl Reid, reprising her role from the stage play), simultaneously faces the loss of her popular television role and the breakdown of her long-term relationship with a younger woman (Susannah York). Although Marcus’s play was a black comedy, the film version was marketed as a “shocking drama”; it added explicit lesbian content that was not in the original play, and was presented as a serious treatment of lesbianism.
The Killing of Sister George (1968)
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Beryl Reid, Susannah York, Coral Browne, Ronald Fraser, Patricia Medina, Hugh Paddick, Cyril Delevanti, William Beckley, Elaine Church, Brendan Dillon, Mike Freeman, Maggie Paige
Screenplay by: Lukas Heller
Production Design by: David Bennett
Cinematography by: Joseph F. Biroc
Film Editing by: Michael Luciano
Costume Design by: Renié
Set Decoration by: John Brown
Art Direction by: William Glasgow
Music by: Gerald Fried
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Cinerama Releasing Corporation
Release Date: December 12, 1968
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