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Jo is an awkward, shy 17-year-old girl living with her promiscuous alcoholic mother, Helen. Desperately longing to simply be loved, when her mother's latest "romance" drives Jo out of their apartment, she spends the night with a black sailor on a brief shore leave. But when Jo's mother abandons her to move in with her latest lover, Jo finds a job and a room for herself, meets Geoffrey, a shy and lonely homosexual, and allows him to share her flat. When she discovers that she is pregnant with the sailor's child, Geoffrey, grateful for her friendship, looks after her, even offering marriage. Their brief taste of happiness is short-lived for Jo's fickle and domineering mother, her own romantic hopes dashed, appears on the scene, determined to drive the gentle Geoffrey from the flat and take over the care of her daughter, rearranging everything to suit herself

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[LadyEmilyElizabeth]

Thanks soooo much for uploading! I've just realized that the actress who plays Jo is also in Dr Zhivago.

[Gollyfats]

Thank you for uploading this...bleak movie but a classic. Always loved watching this on a rainy day....thanks again :-)

[kevinmichaelwilliams]

Interesting how the score is so upbeat ... like it was used to blunt the script ..

[abuealfonso10]

@LadyEmilyElizabeth Her name's Rita Tushingham, and to my taste her best movie is The Knack and how to get it. I dream on her outstanding eyes.

[claudiadorset]

rip shelagh delaney x

[bobbydylanio]

@chiendeguerre what are you on about? how the hell was that insensitive?????

[chiendeguerre]

@Feisty1967 I'm From Liverpool. My dad was the son of a Chinese Seaman and mixed race. I never knew him though, he was turned away at the door by my mothers family, door slammed in his face. I can still hear it rattling 44 years later. Hope things are going tolerably for you and your daughter. Good Luck for the new year. :D

[chiendeguerre]

@bobbydylanio that was a bit insensitive.

[Feisty1967]

I'm an alcoholic mother so I really relate to this and what my daughter is going through.

[bobbydylanio]

I've watched this movie 3 times in a week and im not sure that it was ever suggested that her mother was an alchoholic...

[citizenpoet]

I like this movie. Too bad it's not available on DVD in the US

[ratherfam]

mother of God! a saturday night saved again! u rock! and she looks like a child to me now!