The Pumpkin Eater (1964) - Jack Clayton Londoner Jo and her third husband Jake live with six of her children but the marriage is strained by numerous factors. She then had two affairs, each one of which produced another daughter. Its narrator, Mrs Armitage, has suffered a breakdown: in the linen department of Harrods she found herself sprinkling the stiff cloths with extraordinarily large tears. We are always looking for more location identifications, information, snippets, anecdotes or references. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 7.2. Her doctor thinks Jo uses childbirth as a rationale for sex. So where to begin? Is that all the business of living, if not loving, is about? It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13497. Peter, the pumpkin eater, wanted to make two pies for a party. Starring Anne Bancroft. There followed a novel, her third, called The Bright Prison, which sank without trace, and a travel book, With Love and Lizards. Beautiful Mother of five Jo leaves the banality of her marriage to second husband Giles to wed her passionate screenwriter lover, Jake Armitage. Jo left her second husband Giles (Richard Johnson) after meeting Giles' friend Jake; the two were immediately attracted to each other. The Pumpkin Eater is published by Penguin (8.99) on 2 July. The Pumpkin Eater: Directed by Jack Clayton. "[7], The Pumpkin Eater was released as a fullscreen DVD by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on 4 March 2011. There was to be one more published novel, The Handyman (1983), and a number of unfinished novels, or at least unpublished ones. Penelope was born in Rhyl, the daughter of the Rev AFG and Amy Caroline Fletcher. "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater" is a well known nursery rhyme in the USA and more recently in the UK. Click here to order a copy for 7.19. On the east side of The Mappin Terrace. Matters were not helped by the fact that John's second wife was also called Penelope (ne Gollop) and Penny One, as the author was thereafter known, was frequently mistaken for her successor, Penny Two. Unknown location. Penelope was the toast of the town, usually wearing a cool black leather jacket and smoking too much (later in life, after an operation for cancer and the removal of one lung, she smoked, if anything, even more) and giving her opinion everywhere: reviewing novels for the Sunday Times, succeeding Penelope Gilliatt as film critic of the Observer, publishing her luminous short stories in the New Yorker (the latter collected in Saturday Lunch With The Brownings). I cant wait. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Heartbreaking. The years ticked by. But I also recommend About Time Too, which comes complete with walk-on parts for, among many others, Kenneth Tynan, Leslie Phillips and Bette Davis (Ten years! Davis snarls at Mortimer, who was then working as a screenwriter. Tomatometer. The Home (1971) is about a woman who, after 20 years of increasingly unfulfilled marriage, finds herself alone with her adult children, all battening off each other, like animals. With biting hints of the rise in feminism that was to come, Penelope Mortimers. Nursery rhyme. info. The Pumpkin Eater Powerful drama, based on the novel by Penelope Mortimer, about a mother who suffers a nervous breakdown after learning of her third husband's infidelity. A rather surreal and dark story of the un-named narrators spiral into a breakdown. In her second volume of autobiography, About Time Too, Mortimer mentions reviews of the book in a typically offhand way: "'A remarkable and deeply disturbing achievement . Pellucid, tart and compassionate' they said, but I hardly noticed." The worries, the anger, the stress she feels is all familiar. were so informative about the Square and other areas of London. What dyou think of that?). The children wave as their step-father departs. Published in 1962, this book is of its time (some racism and sexism), ,but I really enjoyed its very 50s feel (think Comyns, Pym and Taylor). (RL). We are aware that there are films on the site that were added when the criteria for the inclusion of locations was very different from today and, as a result, there may be scenes missing from some productions. The view from the window. The street has since been paved over and the buildings have nearly all been replaced. Add to wishlist. See production, box office & company info, (Cobstone Windmill - the Armitage's country house with views of town below). As suspicions of Husband Jake's philandering grows, Jo's sanity spirals. By what name was The Pumpkin Eater (1964) officially released in India in English? Had a wife, In the shot after Jake pours out his drink on Conway, the film is being run backwards for some reason, as the smoke from the cigarette clearly indicates. Jo's issues leave her in a fragile mental state.This movie never explains its title, which refers to a traditional children's rhyme: \"Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater/Had a wife, but couldn't keep her;/So he put her in a shell/And there he kept her very well.\" This serves as the epigraph of Penelope Mortimer's original novel. Best British Art Direction Black and White, Best British Cinematography Black and White, Best British Costume Design Black and White, "The 37th Academy Awards (1965) Nominees and Winners", The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Pumpkin_Eater&oldid=1148374863, Films featuring a Best Drama Actress Golden Globe-winning performance, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Rosalind Atkinson as Mrs. James, Jo's mother, This page was last edited on 5 April 2023, at 20:10. Had another, didn't love her, Up the chimney he did shove her. All rights reserved. He has used the considerable acting talents at his command for the maximum results. Images submitted must be in Landscape orientation, as would be seen on the cinema screen, not Portrait. Menu. and here's to you, mrs. armitage / jesus loves you more than you will know (wo wo wo). [1] A film screenwriter and his previously married wife live with six of her eight children in London. I reread Penelope Mortimer's 1962 novella. St Peters Square, Hammersmith, London W6. Copyright 1997 - 2023. Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations. St Peters Square once more. To take but one example, the two shot scene in which Peter Finch . The union is strained and she suspects her husband of infidelity. By the book's end, she is at home alone, left to face what remains of her life. Jack Clayton's direction gets off to a slow, almost casual start, but the pace quickens as the drama becomes more intense. Flashback to when the Armitage family first moved into their home. (Very Penelope Mortimer, that.). A beautifully written story of one woman's descent into madness. Edna O'Brien, equally in demand at the time, wrote of it: "Almost every woman I can think of will want to read this book." Add to cart. Jomakes an eminently worthwhile, but virtually intractable, subject for a film: worthwhile because neurotics rarely get a square, sympathetic, penetrating deal in the cinema; intractable because, like many neurotics, she is a fixated and evidently crashing bore, and one of the most difficult things to do is to present a bore fairly without at the same time boring your audience too. Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater, had a wife and couldn't keep her. With three husbands in her past, one in her present and a numberless army of children, Mrs Armitage is astonished to find herself collapsing one . infoWatch in a web browser or on supported devices . Eligible. 13+. The film was adapted by Harold Pinter from the 1962 novel of the same title by Penelope Mortimer and was directed by Jack Clayton. One of the the many achievements of The Pumpkin Eater is that it somehow manages to find universal truths in what was hardly an archetypal situation: Mortimer peels several layers of skin off the subjects of motherhood, marriage, and monogamy, so that what we're asked to look at is frequently red-raw and painful without being remotely self-dramatizing. Let's say you can only use two different lengths - 2 units and 4 units. The film was adapted by Harold Pinter from the 1962 novel of the same title by Penelope Mortimer and was directed by Jack Clayton.The title is a reference to the nursery rhyme "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater". Synopsis. Peter, the pumpkin eater, wanted to make two pies for a party. After purchasing the windmill and converting it into a holiday home, Jake and the children cycle towards it. Click here to order a copy for 7.19. Why, is anyones guess. Well, with the other novels, of course. In 1937, having dropped out of university, she married Charles Dimont, a journalist; they had two daughters. 146 IMDb 7.2 1 h 50 min 1964. Almost every woman I can think of will want to read this book, said Edna OBrien. Penelope Ruth Mortimer, novelist, born September 19 1918; died October 19 1999, Her steely prose charted the death of love and the Queen Mother's life, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Their upper-middle-class life is very different from Giles and Jo's; who lived in a barn in the English countryside. A nameless woman speaks, at first from the precarious perch of a therapist's couch, and her smart, wry, confiding, immensely sympathetic voice immediately captures and holds our attention. Pumpkin Eater, The. In 1958, she published the plangent, excoriating Daddys Gone A-Hunting, whose heroine, Ruth Whiting, is trapped in a stockbroker village while her duplicitous husband, Rex, messes about with a girl in London. Was a time when I could pull myself together Not now.. Daddys Gone A-Hunting and The Pumpkin Eater both anticipate Betty Friedans The Feminine Mystique (1963), dealing with what its American author would call the problem with no name: the madness that was born of being a certain kind of wife, with a certain kind of husband; of the suffocating feeling that life was going on elsewhere. This does not prevent her from becoming pregnant again, but she follows suggestions by Jake and her doctor that she have an abortion and be sterilized, and she seems happy after the operation. Whilst visiting the country, Jo and Jake spot an old windmill through a window. No s qu demonios nos quiere decir. In this, her best book, Mortimer employs a steely, sceptical firm-eyed prose, which pays readers the compliment of regarding them almost as collaborators. The Mortimers were a fashionable and radical London couple. Unknown location. This did not go down well and a revised edition, subtitled An Alternative Portrait Of Her Life And Times, was brought out in 1995. St Peters Square in London W6. The house before renovation. Mortimer called it The Pumpkin Eater, from the nursery rhyme (Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater/ had a wife and couldnt keep her). But in the 70s, as her novels grew more desolate and her husband or ex husband; they divorced in 1971 more famous, her star began to fade. As suspicions of Husband Jake's philandering grows, Jo's sanity spirals. Yet the book was a pioneering work, making it possible for subsequent royal biographers to write with an honesty and intelligence which hadn't always previously been employed. Sit back, relax, and watch the insanity unfold; Hand drawn illustrations; Where to Watch The Pumpkin Eater The Pumpkin Eater is available to watch, stream, download and buy on demand at Apple TV, Amazon, Google Play, YouTube VOD and Vudu. This page is not available in other languages. Johanna, her first novel, was published in 1947, under the name of Penelope Dimont, two years before she and her first husband, Charles Dimont, divorced. We can arrange dots in a similar way to the 5 on a dice and they usually sit quite well into a rectangular shape. Peter, Peter pumpkin eater, And now, at last, she had a hit on her hands. She is so good. The Pumpkin Eater caused speculation about its autobiographical content. In her fourth marriage, Jo (Anne Bancroft) finds out that her husband (Peter Finch) is having an affair. Date: 1964 Gosh, I said dully, hoping we would have a crash in which our bodies would be mutilated beyond recognition.. After venting her frustration by furiously assaulting him, she retaliates by having an affair with her second husband. "[5], The film has continued to provoke comments. Storyline: A film screenwriter and his previously married wife live with six of her eight children in London. The Pumpkin Eater, mint folded condition, unused. By then Penelope had retreated to her beloved and spectacular garden in Moreton-in-Marsh. Beautiful Mother of five Jo leaves the banality of her marriage to second husband Giles to wed her passionate screenwriter lover, Jake Armitage. "[2] Variety wrote "[Pinter's] script vividly brings to life the principal characters in this story of a shattered marriage, though Pinter's resort to flashback technique is confusing in the early stages. The magnificent Daddy's Gone A-Hunting was published in 1958. As a small boy, bullied and teased by six sisters and four brothers, he sat under the nursery table chanting 'Mama, papa, all the children are disagreeable except me', to the tune of Gentle Jesus'." Jake reacts irrationally and unconvincingly to Jo's questions after the children tell her the woman fainted into Jake's arms. St Peters Square, Hammersmith. Jake: What are you sniggering for? Turville, Buckinghamshire. I can't say I enjoyed the book but I understood it, and maybe that's better. Today, she is hardly read at all. but it is also sly, and funny, and the nurses and powder and playwrights and profiles of midcentury upper-class english society are (i am unashamed to admit) delightful. Is the information and enjoyment enough to donate 10 towards our running costs. This elicits coldness from Jake. 1964 109 minutes. Region(s): London O-Q, South East M-Q. Jo with the Nanny and children meet with Bob Conway (James Mason) at London Zoo in NW1. (We were snug, almost riotously snug, in the study, she writes in The Pumpkin Eater, describing when Mrs Armitage keeps watch over the laid out body of her father with her mother: that riotously is pure Mortimer.) Turville, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. (RL). c. 1825. A woman with so many children they are unnumbered, and on her fourth husband - the philandering Jake, feels defined by motherhood and marriage and when both these things begin to unravel so does she. We will mention anyone who helps and give full credit for all location shots received. The union is strained . This verse is also considered to be an older version of the rhyme Eeper Weeper.[2]. At first, she felt radiantly grateful to her husband: I had been given the gift of an unused life. But during her convalescence, she discovered his affair (with the actor Wendy Craig, by whom he had a son). Powerful drama based on the novel by Penelope Mortimer. [1] Much the same today. Published in 1962, The Pumpkin-Eater pre-dates all the feminist writing that was so exhilarating to read as the sixties progressed, but I knew Mortimers name because Ive read something of hers before. William Wallace Denslow/Wikimedia Commons. With three husbands in her past, one in her present and a numberless army of children, Mrs Armitage is astonished to find herself collapsing one day in Harrods. The Pumpkin Eater is a 1964 British drama film starring Anne Bancroft as an unusually fertile woman and Peter Finch as her philandering husband. He suggests that she may feel uncomfortable with the messiness or vulgarity of sex and that she may be using childbirth to justify it to herself. Her readers had to fill in the gaps, use their imagination. The Pumpkin Eater was written in the same year that she agreed, at his urging, to an abortion and sterilisation (having suffered a miscarriage, she was pregnant yet again at the age of 42). He put her in a pumpkin shell Im frightened of being smart, of not feeling sufficiently, of not being do I mean sincere? Original British poster, about 28" x 40" some 72cm x 100cm. If Mortimer was surprised by her books success on reading the first (good) review, her relief was so great, she vomited she would be astonished to hear that, next month, Penguin will publish The Pumpkin Eater as a Modern Classic. 2011 1 28.19 28.18 30.31 DVD 6 Sept. 2010 1 4.03 34.95 4.03 Anne Bancroft delivers a towering performance as a deeply troubled and tormented wife in this sharply observed portrait of a woman - and a marriage - in crisis. 10 St Peter's Square, the screen capture can also be seen LMA 'Collage', found by Ray Glenister. She used: Did Peter have enough ingredients to make two pumpkin pies for the party or did he need to buy more? Stars: Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, James Mason Location(s): London, Buckinghamshire. Movies. Thematically, there are two issues: Jo's frequent childbearing and Jake's extramarital affairs. An adaptation of The Pumpkin Eater will be broadcast on Radio 4 later in the summer, starring Helen McCrory as Mrs Armitage, As her 1962 novel The Pumpkin Eater becomes a Penguin Classic, Rachel Cooke re-examines the life of Penelope Mortimer, who tackled difficult subjects in a style that still sounds vital today, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Attentive to emotional weather: Penelope Mortimer photographed by Ida Kar in 1961. When he explains that he finds nothing wrong with his behavior, Jo must decide whether to keep the marriage for the sake of her children, or strike out on her own. Jo (Anne Bancroft) leaves the banality of her marriage to second husband Giles (Richard Johnson) to wed her screenwriter lover, Jake Armitage . They had married in 1949 but eventually tensions and jealousies led to divorce in 1972. Mrs. Armitage likened it to the way. THE PUMPKIN EATER - BD. In a 1999 obituary of Penelope Mortimer, Giles Gordon in The Guardian characterized Harold Pinter as someone who values what is "written between the lines," making him "her ideal translator and interpreter" for the film adaptation of Mortimer's novel. I drive to John Barnes [a nearby department store] and walk around the bales of material, even sometimes feeling it, touching it; thinking, I know quite well I dont want to, shant buy any Some day I shall write about this. According to Valerie Grove, the biographer of Mortimers second husband, John Mortimer, later she returned to this entry and annotated it with two words: Pumpkin Eater. It is dedicated "To John", five years her junior, and a successful barrister with a number of not particularly successful . Meanwhile, signs accumulate that Jake has been having affairs while pursuing a successful career as a screenwriter. If I wanted to, I could stand on a street corner and loudly proclaim, I am a Buddhist! Or, I could proclaim, I am a Democrat! My merely saying one or both of those things would make it so. Wheres a pumpkin shell when you need one, eh? Mrs Armitage, the wife of a successful screenwriter and producer, is having a breakdown. The first indication of his infidelity concerns Philpot (Maggie Smith), a young woman who lived with the Armitage family for a while. The Pumpkin Eater [DVD] [2010] Anne Bancroft (Actor), Peter Finch (Actor), Jack Clayton (Director) Rated: Parental Guidance Format: DVD 80 ratings 403 Blu-ray 10.00 DVD 4.03 Additional DVD options Edition Discs Amazon Price New from Used from DVD 4 Mar. "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater". Is The Pumpkin Eater streaming? The question of Jo's fertility is first broached by her psychiatrist. The Pumpkin Eater (1964) - Jack Clayton Londoner Jo and her third husband Jake live with six of her children but the marriage is strained by numerous factors. Tools. Jo and Jake at the funeral of Jake's father. The Pumpkin Eater is a surreal black comedy about the wages of adulthood and the pitfalls of parenthood. She has already been married and has several children (with one exception they are an amorphous bunch) and he just seems to find the idea of being a part of this ready-made family an appealing idea, as long as nothing much is expected of him, especially not fidelity. The Pumpkin Eater is further proof of Tolstoy's maxim that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. The Pumpkin Eater is published by Penguin (8.99) on 2 July. Her marriage is a wreck and shes discovered that having one child after another hasnt given her the fulfilling life she wanted. In her fourth marriage, Jo (Anne Bancroft) finds out that her husband (Peter Finch) is having an affair. Jake waves back. Harold Pinter penned one of his superior scripts in this fastidious adaptation of Penelope Mortimer's novel about a compulsive child-bearer and her unfaithful screenwriter husband . She always wanted to be a writer, but life would get in the way which is, perhaps, one reason why her novels are so intensely autobiographical (their emotional force derives from her great skill, but also from the powerful sense that Mortimer knows whereof she speaks). https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter,_Peter,_Pumpkin_Eater&oldid=1149182443, This page was last edited on 10 April 2023, at 17:00. This movie never explains its title, which refers to a traditional children's rhyme: "Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater/Had a wife, but couldn't keep her/So he put her in a shell/And there he kept her very well." However, she always made $80$ pies at a time. You see? In The Pumpkin Eater, Mrs Armitages husband, Jake, urges her to have a termination (she agrees), on the grounds that they have plenty of children already. The second sign comes from Bob Conway (James Mason), an acquaintance who alleges an affair between his wife and Jake during production of a film in Morocco. TV Shows. (Daddys Gone A-hunting, I think, but its too long ago to be sure). Busy work. But theres no real confidence. 45.00 + p&p. A nameless woman speaks, at first from the precarious perch of a therapist's couch, and her smart, wry, confiding, immensely sympathetic voice immediately captures and holds our attention. In the 60s, when she and John Mortimer, the creator of Rumpole, were seen as a radical young couple about town Penelope, extraordinarily beautiful, slunk about in jeans and a leather jacket, a cigarette permanently between her lips she was much feted (among other things, she succeeded Penelope Gilliatt as the film critic of the Observer). 67%. The Pumpkin Eater caused speculation about its autobiographical content. Penelope Mortimer published two volumes of autobiography, About Time (1979), which deals rather severely with her life from 1918 to her 21st birthday, and which won the Whitbread Prize; and About Time Too (1993). The Pumpkin Eater is a surreal black comedy about the wages of adulthood and the pitfalls of parenthood. I dont know. Sit back, relax, and watch the insanity unfoldHand . And then he loved her very well.[1]. This was originally a submission for the 2021 Spooktober Jam.Features:A 40 minute kinetic story. The gush and over-writing of so much fiction of the 1950s and early 1960s was not for Mortimer. Now shot by Richard Lovejoy (RL). I hope so. How about every third point? 7 reviews. Seeing how happy her children are with Jake, Jo indicates her acceptance of him by sadly, but graciously, accepting a tin of beer from him, a gesture which echoes another scene in the windmill from a happier time in their marriage. As suspicions of Husband Jake's philandering Read allBeautiful Mother of five Jo leaves the banality of her marriage to second husband Giles to wed her passionate screenwriter lover, Jake Armitage. It's said to be semi-autobiographical. The Pumpkin Eater. Penelope never fully recovered from the split. Jake Armitage (Peter Finch) says goodbye to the children whilst the Nanny (Faith Kent) looks on. The following morning, Jake and their children arrive at the windmill with food. 9.99. "[3], Bosley Crowther of The New York Times was critical of Pinter's script, and Clayton's direction, of which he felt was "somewhat mechanical, too, tumbling his drama in a confusion of jump cuts and fleeting imagesWith a good deal more body to the drama and point to the characters, Mr. Clayton would have a picture that comes close to representing truth. Eeper Weeper, chimney sweeper, Had a wife but couldn't keep her. "[4] The Monthly Film Bulletin stated "There is something phantasmally absurd about this well-meaning, ambitious filmIt could well be that Pinter's brilliance is altogether the wrong kind of brilliance to let loose on the scripting of this already nerve-raw, nightmarish subject. Their relationship, happy at first, soon grew stormy. 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