The Girl on a Motorcycle | |
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Directed by | Jack Cardiff |
Produced by | William Sassoon |
Screenplay by | Ronald Duncan Thought sequences dialogue: Gillian Freeman |
Story by | Jack Cardiff (Adaptation) |
Based on | La Motocyclette by André Pieyre de Mandiargues[1] |
Starring | Alain Delon Marianne Faithfull Roger Mutton Marius Goring |
Music by | Les Reed |
Cinematography | Jack Cardiff |
Edited by | Peter Musgrave |
Production company | Ares Productions Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie Mid-Atlantic Films |
Distributed by | British Lion Films(UK) Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie (France) Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Claridge Pictures (US) |
October 1968 | |
Running time | 91 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom France |
Language | English |
Box office | 626,331 admissions (France)[2] |
The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968) The Girl on a Motorcycle: Newly-married Rebecca leaves her husband's Alsatian bed on her prized motorbike - symbol of freedom and escape - to visit her lover in Heidelberg. En route she indulges in psychedelic reveries as she relives her changing relationship with the two men. Director Jack Cardiff also served as scripter and cinematographer of the Anglo-French co-production Girl on a Motorcycle (La Motocyclette) The girl in question.
The Girl on a Motorcycle (French: La motocyclette), also known in the United States as Naked Under Leather, is a 1968 British-French eroticromantic drama film starring Alain Delon and Marianne Faithfull and featuring Roger Mutton, Marius Goring and Catherine Jourdan. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival but the festival was cancelled due to the May 1968 events in France.[3]The Girl on a Motorcycle redefined the leather jacket for motorcyclists into a full body suit that Marianne Faithfull wore in the film.[4] It was the first film to receive an X rating in the United States.[5]
Newly married Rebecca leaves her husband's Alsatian bed on her prized motorbike—her symbol of freedom and escape—to visit Daniel, her lover in Heidelberg. En route, she indulges in psychedelic and erotic reveries as she relives her changing relationship with the two men, before crashing into a truck at the end.
The film was the sixth most popular movie in general release in Britain during 1968.[6]
The Girl on a Motorcycle was released on VHS in 1998 and DVD in 1999 by Starz/Anchor Bay. A remastered edition on DVD and Blu-ray Disc was released in 2012 by Redemption Films.
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