--- title: 'The Killing of Sister George (1968)' type: 'film' director: 'Robert Aldrich' released: '1968-12-15' runtime_minutes: 138 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-killing-of-sister-george-1968' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063185/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Killing of Sister George (1968) 1968 · 138 min · Drama · United States ## Synopsis The Killing of Sister George is a 1968 film directed by Robert Aldrich and filmed at his Aldrich Studios in Los Angeles. It is based on the 1964 play by British playwright Frank Marcus. In the film, an ageing lesbian television actress, June "George" Buckridge, simultaneously faces the loss of her popular television role and the breakdown of her long-term relationship with a younger woman. Although Marcus's play was a black comedy, the film version was marketed as a "shocking drama"; it added explicit lesbian content that was not in the original play, and was presented as a serious treatment of lesbianism. ## Credits - **Director:** [Robert Aldrich](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-aldrich) - **Producer:** [Robert Aldrich](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-aldrich) - **Screenplay:** [Lukas Heller](https://cinepixo.com/people/lukas-heller) - **Original Music Composer:** [Gerald Fried](https://cinepixo.com/people/gerald-fried) - **Director of Photography:** [Joseph F. Biroc](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-f-biroc) - **Editor:** [Michael Luciano](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-luciano) ## Cast - [Beryl Reid](https://cinepixo.com/people/beryl-reid) - [Coral Browne](https://cinepixo.com/people/coral-browne) - [Cyril Delevanti](https://cinepixo.com/people/cyril-delevanti) - [Patricia Medina](https://cinepixo.com/people/patricia-medina) - [Susannah York](https://cinepixo.com/people/susannah-york) - [Ronald Fraser](https://cinepixo.com/people/ronald-fraser) - [Sivi Aberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/sivi-aberg) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-killing-of-sister-george-1968 Film facts: Wikidata (Q649570); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.