Up the Junction

Moviecut—Up the Junction

This is one of my all time favourite films. OK so the plot is not fantastic ( certainly better than some of the same era !! ), but anyone who loves the 60's will revel in its nostalgia, the cars, the buildings, the fashions.... simply superb!, it all harks back to a much more simpler, although harder way of life. I was born in the 60's & love the 50's/60,s era, this film started my interest in films of this time, so if you love this film then also see :- A KIND OF LOVING. LONELINESS OF A LONG DISTANCE RUNNER. POOR COW. LEATHER BOYS. CATHY COME HOME. Saturday NIGHT , Sunday MORNING. SMASHING TIME. HERE WE GO ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH. BILLY LIAR. A TASTE OF HONEY. SPARROWS CANT SING. GIRL WITH GREEN EYES. A KID FOR 2 FARTHINGS. TO SIR WITH LOVE. So close the curtains, put the cat out, turn the lights off & watch this film.... you will be hooked, i promise !

My goodness, this brought back memories. I grew up in London in the 1960s and also lived in areas like this up in the Midlands. The movie is a wonderful nostalgic period piece for those of us who knew this world, peripherally or centrally. But the social commentary is timeless. The central character, Polly, yearns for real earthy genuine living and crosses the bridge from upper-class Chelsea to working-class Clapham to experience freedom from upper class social mores and pretension. The world she finds there is indeed real, genuine and earthy. But she has the choice to enter this world or leave it, unlike most of the people who were born into it. And does she fully understand the world she has entered?

I remember seeing this film years ago and thinking wow this is really good and different and thought Adrienne Posta and Maureen Lipman were really good in it. Also seeing Dennis Waterman in an early role. And Suzy Kendall who is rather attractive. And Alfie Bass and Liz Fraser in small but very good roles. Also a great soundtrack from Manfred Mann with Adrienne Posta and Maureen Lipman singing (I need your love) which was a good song and the girls were good in it. We have a Facebook Group with at this moment 343 members called (Up The Junction Film 1967 Suzy Kendall, Dennis Waterman, Adrienne Posta,) and we have at this moment Adrienne Posta Actress who likes and comments quite regularly. Tony Klinger Producer who was 3 rd director on the film at 17, he is a major producer and so was his father who Produced Get Carter with Michael Caine. He has just answered 35 questions on the film and it's in the group. Also Roy Taylor Dubbing Editor. And we hope to get more.

A very likeable if dated view of working class 60's London viewed the eyes of upper crust Polly Dean. Several tough and controversial issues (illegal abortions & wife beating) are covered which must have been brave at the time that the film was made. Strangely prophetic in the 'gentrification' of Battersea (one of the up-areas in recent property prices). Having been in the year I was born, I cannot fully comment on the authenticity of this films view of 60's life. However from my perspective and that of older relatives it is fairly accurate. The soundtrack (by Manfred Mann) is a superb slab of sixties beat\psychedelia. The characters are very likeable and the film is in my opinion a good introduction for any scholar of the period. 9/10

Peter Collinson was already mellowing after his directorial debut with the incredibly nasty home invasion film 'The Penthouse' (1967); and let loose on Nell Dunn's stories in Technicolor with Manfred Mann on the soundtrack was obviously going to turn in a very different film from Ken Loach's 'Wednesday Play' of 1965. What seemed like gritty realism in 1967 today seems as remote as the world evoked by Dickens (complete with Jewish stereotypes which really date it). Maureen Lipman is almost unrecognisably young and it's always good to see Adrienne Posta and Liz Fraser (who share a literally gut-renching sequence after the former has an abortion performed by a drunken Hylda Baker). But the real star is Battersea power station, looming in the background back in the days when it was still permitted to smoke.

An absolute must see for all lovers of 1960's culture. Not only does it boast some of the decades finest actors, it has a beautiful soundtrack from Manfred Mann and the cinematography perfectly captures the feel of what it was like to live in that decade. The plotline also deals with some of the pressing social issues of the time as well, including a very sensitive portrayal of back street abortion, the only one coming even slightly close to the masterly "Alfie". Even watching this film now, I think you can really get a feel for what it was like to be young and working class in the 1960's. Great Stuff.

A portrayal of women's lives in 1960s working class Battersea, through the eyes of a girl from Chelsea, hence an outsider. Based on the better known book by Nell Dunn, from which it departs significantly, making the ill-fated affair with Dennis Waterman's character the central narrative. Beautifully done. Deserves to be better known than it is.

Good cast, good score, good storyline, good direction... Always relevant, never boring, just atmospheric sometimes. We even have a nice little love story. What more can be expected from a movie? I'm far from being British, neither was I born in the sixties, but you don't need to be to appreciate this movie. The underlying baseline - in-communicability between social classes - is timeless. Some reviewers say that the movie is depressing. Not more than "I'll never forget whats Isname" and "Alfie", which are similar. There's barely any false note in this one, including the final which avoids all clichés. Peter Collinson handled his subject with the same perfection all the way through than he did with his masterpiece "Ten Little Indians".