Rapture (1965 film)

Rapture
Directed by	John Guillermin
Screenplay by	Ennio Flaiano Stanley Mann
Starring	Melvyn Douglas Patricia Gozzi Dean Stockwell
Cinematography	Marcel Grignon
Edited by	Max Benedict Françoise Diot
Music by	Georges Delerue
Production company	Panoramic Productions
Distributed by	20th Century Fox International Classics
Release date	8 November 1965 (1965-11-08)
Running time	104 minutes
Countries	France United States
Languages	French English

Rapture (Template:Lang-fr) is a 1965 French-American film directed by John Guillermin, and starring Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Gozzi, and Dean Stockwell.

Plot

Young teenager Agnes, her widowed father, and their caretaker Karen live in a farmhouse in Brittany, France. Agnes is between childhood and growing into a young adult. She resists her father's wish for her to grow up and act like an adult. One day while walking home from church they witness a prison bus crash. The convicts attempt to flee and are being shot by the prison guards. One knocks down a guard and injures him before escaping past the family. Agnes finds the convict in the family's shed and hides him from the police. In her childlike mind she thinks that she has created him from a scarecrow. He stays for a while with the family and he and Karen become close. Agnes catches them kissing in the shed and angrily chases Karen away. Agnes and the fugitive run off to the city, but Agnes finds she cannot cope with the situation. She returns home to her father where the police again question them about the fugitive. He is chased to the sea where he is shot and falls off the cliff. The film ends with Agnes and her father walking back to their home.

Cast

• Melvyn Douglas as Frederick Larbaud
• Patricia Gozzi as Agnes Larbaud
• Dean Stockwell as Joseph
• Gunnel Lindblom as Karen

Reception

Time magazine called the film a "penumbral play of love against loneliness" that "boost[s] the artistic stock of English director John Guillermin" and "clinch[es] the reputation of France's 15-year-old Patricia Gozzi."

According to Fox records, the film needed to earn $2,500,000 in rentals to break even and made $1,310,000, meaning it made a loss.

See also

• List of American films of 1965

External links

• Rapture at IMDb
• Rapture at Rotten Tomatoes