The Deep Blue Sea begins with neighbours discovering the body of Hester Collyer (Vivien Leigh)who has tried and failed to commit suicide. Some time before, she left her husband, a respectable High Court Judge, for a semi-alcoholic former R.A.F. pilot. The relationship was physical and passionate but his ardour has cooled, leaving her emotionally stranded and desperate. The aftershocks of her attempted suicide unravel even the remnants of this relationship, but by the end she is brought to a hard decision to live, partly through the intercession of another resident of the tenement house, Mr Miller, an ex-doctor, struck off for what seems to have been a homosexual offence. These two outcasts, socially ostracised for their 'excessive' loves, find a curious and moving kinship. Director:Anatole Litvak Writer:Terence Rattigan (also play) Cast (in credits order) Vivien Leigh ... Hester Collyer Kenneth More ... Freddie Page Eric Portman ... Miller Emlyn Williams ... Sir William Collyer Moira Lister ... Dawn Maxwell Arthur Hill ... Jackie Jackson Dandy Nichols ... Mrs. Elton Jimmy Hanley ... Dicer Durston Miriam Karlin ... Barmaid Heather Thatcher ... Lady Dawson Bill Shine ... Golfer Brian Oulton ... Drunk Sid James ... Man outside bar (as Sidney James) Alec McCowen ... Ken Thompson Gibb McLaughlin ... Clerk Runtime:96 min Country:UK Language:English Color:Color (Eastmancolor) Sound Mix:4-Track Stereo (magnetic prints) / Mono (optical prints) Certification:Finland:K-16 / Sweden:15 / USA:Unrated plain packaging
