A Severed Head

Name: A Severed Head
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1971-01-21
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Rating: 5.3
Cast: Lee Remick, Richard Attenborough, Ian Holm

1971
R
1h 38m

IMDb RATING

5.3/10

443

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Dark Comedy Comedy

The wine taster and merchant Martin Lynch-Gibbon is married to the shallow and spoiled Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, and loves his mistress Georgie Hands. Antonia is under therapy with Martin's best... Read allThe wine taster and merchant Martin Lynch-Gibbon is married to the shallow and spoiled Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, and loves his mistress Georgie Hands. Antonia is under therapy with Martin's best friend, the psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. One day, Antonia decides to ask for a divorce f... Read allThe wine taster and merchant Martin Lynch-Gibbon is married to the shallow and spoiled Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, and loves his mistress Georgie Hands. Antonia is under therapy with Martin's best friend, the psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. One day, Antonia decides to ask for a divorce from Martin, to live with Palmer, but they want to keep Martin as their friend. When Palmer... Read all

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IMDb RATING

5.3/10

443

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Frederic Raphael wrote the screenplay for this movie in 1967, two years before it was made, and was paid a fee of $210,000, in those days about £75,000. This made him the highest-paid screenwriter in British movies. His fee was so large that the budget could not afford anything like as much for a director. Michael Winner was considered, but his then-standard fee of $75,000 (about £26,500) was too large for the producers to be able to afford him.

Goofs
The main actor drives a car with the wheel at left. It is very unusual a car in Britain not having the wheel at right.

Quotes
Honor Klein: You think you're being civilised - I think you're a coward.
Martin Lynch-Gibbon: Well at least I'm a civilised coward.
Honor Klein: I'm not at all sure you really want your wife back.
Martin Lynch-Gibbon: And I'm not at all sure if I care if you're at all sure, thanks all the same.