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词条 I Start Counting
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  1. Plot summary

  2. Cast

  3. References

  4. External links

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| director = David Greene
| producer = David Greene
Stanley R. Jaffe
| screenplay = Richard Harris
| based on = {{Based on|I Start Counting|Audrey Erskine Lindop}}
| starring = Jenny Agutter
Bryan Marshall
| music = Basil Kirchin
| cinematography = Alex Thomson
| editing = Keith Palmer
| distributor = United Artists
| released = November 1970
| runtime = 105 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
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I Start Counting is a British thriller film released in 1970, directed by David Greene and starring Jenny Agutter in one of her first major roles. It was based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Audrey Erskine Lindop.

The film was moderately controversial because of Agutter's squeaky-clean image and youth (16, playing a 14-year-old), when coupled with the film's sexual content.[1] It also included Simon Ward's first major film role.

Plot summary

Wynne (Agutter), an adopted 14-year-old girl, has a crush on her 32-year-old stepbrother, George (Bryan Marshall). While spying on George in the bathroom, Wynne notices he has several scratches on his back, and finds a jumper she made for him that he threw in the rubbish has blood on it; this leads her to suspect him of being the serial killer of several local teenage girls, who is still at large. Despite this belief, Wynne continues to have romantic sexual fantasies about George, and dreams of marrying him when she comes of legal age.

Wynne hides in George's minibus, thinking to catch him in the act of murdering a young girl, but instead discovers he is having an affair with a mentally fragile woman (Lana Morris), whose blood was on the discarded jumper after she slashed her wrist in a suicide attempt.

Wynne's best friend Corinne (Clare Sutcliffe) teases her about her crush on George and, when the family goes out on a picnic, Corinne even flirts with him; he gets angry at her for acting like a "pathetic little mini-tart", and pins her down roughly on the ground. Corinne runs off, and later telephones Wynne to tell her she will stay out all night with an unnamed boy who, she says, they both know. Wynne gets worried about her friend, goes searching for her, and finds Corrinne's dead body. When the murderer sees Wynne, he chases and corners her. He seems to break down in distress, as he genuinely likes her, at which point the police arrive.

The theme song, also entitled "I Start Counting", was sung by Lindsey Moore.

Cast

  • Jenny Agutter as Wynne
  • Bryan Marshall as George
  • Clare Sutcliffe as Corinne
  • Simon Ward as Conductor
  • Gregory Phillips as Len
  • Lana Morris as Leonie
  • Billy Russell as Granddad
  • Madge Ryan as Mother
  • Michael Feast as Jim
  • Fay Compton as Mrs. Bennett
  • Lally Bowers as Aunt Rene
  • Charles Lloyd-Pack as Priest at School
  • Lewis Fiander as Priest at Church
  • Gordon Richardson as Tramp

References

1. ^Britmovie.co.uk {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101224215344/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/2008/08/27/I-Start-Counting-1969/ |date=24 December 2010 }}

External links

  • {{IMDb title|0064462|I Start Counting}}
  • online review
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12 : 1970 films|1970s thriller films|British coming-of-age films|British thriller films|British films|English-language films|Films based on British novels|Films based on thriller novels|Films directed by David Greene|Films set in London|Serial killer films|United Artists films

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