Not sure why I keep watching Tony Richardson movies, since I rarely like them. This one throw in every plot contrivance but the [ahem] kitchen sink -- the teenage heroine sleeps with a black man, rooms with a homosexual, gets pregnant, etc. The depressing milieu is oddly accompanied by a score that belongs in a Distney flick.

"It's easy to bandy about terms like "classic", but there is no other way to describe this magnificent, if dated, film."