---
title: 'The L-Shaped Room (1962)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Bryan Forbes'
released: '1962-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 123
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-l-shaped-room-1962'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057239/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The L-Shaped Room (1962)

1962 · 123 min · Drama · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

The L-Shaped Room is a 1962 British drama romance film written and directed by Bryan Forbes, based on the 1960 novel by Lynne Reid Banks. It tells the story of Jane Fosset, a young French woman, unmarried and pregnant, who moves into a cheap London boarding house, befriending a young man, Toby, in the building. The work is considered part of the kitchen sink realism school of British drama. The film reflected a trend in British films of greater frankness about sex and displays a sympathetic treatment of outsiders "unmarried mothers, lesbian or black" as well as a "largely natural and non-judgmental handling of their problems". As director, Forbes represents "a more romantic, wistful type of realism" than that of Tony Richardson or Lindsay Anderson.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Bryan Forbes](https://cinepixo.com/people/bryan-forbes)
- **Screenplay:** [Bryan Forbes](https://cinepixo.com/people/bryan-forbes), [Lynne Reid Banks](https://cinepixo.com/people/lynne-reid-banks)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Johannes Brahms](https://cinepixo.com/people/johannes-brahms), [John Barry](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-barry)
- **Producer:** [Richard Attenborough](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-attenborough), [James Woolf](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-woolf), [John Woolf](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-woolf)
- **Director of Photography:** [Douglas Slocombe](https://cinepixo.com/people/douglas-slocombe)
- **Editor:** [Anthony Harvey](https://cinepixo.com/people/anthony-harvey)

## Cast

- [Brock Peters](https://cinepixo.com/people/brock-peters)
- [Gerald Sim](https://cinepixo.com/people/gerald-sim)
- [Nanette Newman](https://cinepixo.com/people/nanette-newman)
- [Avis Bunnage](https://cinepixo.com/people/avis-bunnage)
- [Tom Bell](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-bell)
- [Tony Booth](https://cinepixo.com/people/tony-booth)
- [Bernard Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernard-lee)
- [Pat Phoenix](https://cinepixo.com/people/pat-phoenix)
- [Leslie Caron](https://cinepixo.com/people/leslie-caron)
- [Kay Walsh](https://cinepixo.com/people/kay-walsh)
- [Emlyn Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/emlyn-williams)
- [Mark Eden](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-eden)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-l-shaped-room-1962
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