Justine (1969 film)
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| Directed by |
George Cukor Joseph Strick |
| Produced by | Pandro S. Berman |
| Written by |
Lawrence B. Marcus Andrew Sarris Lawrence Durrell (novel) |
| Starring |
Anouk Aimée Dirk Bogarde Robert Forster Anna Karina |
| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Cinematography | Leon Shamroy |
| Edited by | Rita Roland |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox |
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116 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $7,870,000 |
| Box office | $2.2 million (US/ Canada rentals) |
Justine (1969) is a drama film directed by George Cukor and Joseph Strick. It was written by Lawrence B. Marcus and Andrew Sarris, based on the 1957 novel Justine by Lawrence Durrell.
Set in Alexandria in 1938, a young British schoolmaster named Darley meets Pursewarden, a British consular officer. Pursewarden introduces him to Justine, the wife of an Egyptian banker. Darley befriends her, and discovers she is involved in a plot against the British, the goal of which is to arm the Jewish underground movement in Palestine.
This film was originally put together by director Joseph Strick, who intended to do the movie in Morocco. He did some location shooting there, then got into fights with the executives at Fox and with star Anouk Aimee. When he did not hire others for the film as ordered by the studio and slept on the set while working on one of Aimee's scenes, they fired him and George Cukor was brought in. He proceeded to bring the film to Hollywood where the remainder of the film was finished. It became a financial flop and received critical reviews.
Some scenes were shot at Ennejma Ezzahra, a palace at Sidi Bou Said, in northern Tunisia.
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