In a Northern industrial town, sensitive young Paul Morel (Dean Stockwell) is the son of a brutal and overbearing miner (Trevor Howard) and his repressed wife Gertrude (Wendy Hiller). With his artistic ambitions attracting him attention from the local girls, Paul soon finds his relationships stifled by the smothering attentions of his mother.
Adaptation of D H Lawrenceโs breakthrough novel, directed by Jack Cardiff.