The Killing of Sister George

1968
R
2h 18m

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

2.6K

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Coral Browne, Beryl Reid, and Susannah York in The Killing of Sister George (1968)

The life of a soap opera actress begins to unravel as she fears her character will be written out of the series.

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The life of a soap opera actress begins to unravel as she fears her character will be written out of the series.The life of a soap opera actress begins to unravel as she fears her character will be written out of the series.The life of a soap opera actress begins to unravel as she fears her character will be written out of the series.

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

2.6K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination

Trivia
The lesbian lovemaking scene so disgusted Robert Aldrich's longtime composer friend Frank De Vol that he quit the production and didn't work with Aldrich for several years.

Goofs
When George asks for a pint of beer the waiter arrives with it on a tray and it is half full with half a glass of head but when he puts it on the table it's much fuller, with only about an inch of head on it.

Quotes
Alice: Not all women are raving bloody lesbians, you know.
George: That is a misfortune I am perfectly well aware of!

Crazy credits
During the opening credits, the picture distractingly flips from left to right as the main character travels through claustrophobia-inducing alleyways.

Connections
Featured in Before Stonewall (1984)

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Robert Aldrich, Sensitive Guy of the Sixties

Am I the only one who finds it painfully touching that Robert Aldrich went from the biggest hit of his career--the almost woman-free DIRTY DOZEN--to the kind of movie he really wanted to make, i.e., a stagebound melodrama about an aging lesbian soap star's love for a demented nymphet? In its day, SISTER GEORGE was considered the ne plus ultra in coarse homophobia; critics saw the sweaty thumbprints of the Aldrich Touch on every girl-on-girl scene. (Does anyone now lambaste THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT for not being hardhitting docudrama?) In retrospect, the movie seems to me one of Aldrich's most affecting, with Coral Browne (December) and a teeny, teenaged Susannah York (May) grand-slamming this folie a deux to a fare-thee-well.