The Romantic Englishwoman

The Romantic Englishwoman is a 1975 British film directed by Joseph Losey. It stars Michael Caine, Glenda Jackson, Helmut Berger, and marks the featurelength screen debut for Kate Nelligan. The screenplay was written by Tom Stoppard and Thomas Wiseman.

Elizabeth, bored wife of a successful pulp writer in England, leaves husband and child and runs away to the German town of BadenBaden. There she meets Thomas, who claims to be a poet but viewers know to be a petty thief, conman, drug courier and gigolo. Though the two are briefly attracted to each other, she returns home. He, hunted by gangsters for a drug consignment he has lost, follows her to England. Lewis, highly suspicious of his wife, invites the young man to stay with them and act as his secretary. Initially resenting the presence of the handsome stranger, Elizabeth one night starts an affair and the two run away with no money to the south of France. Lewis follows them, he in turn being followed by the gangsters looking for Thomas. At the end the gangsters reclaim Thomas, presumably for execution, while Lewis reclaims Elizabeth.

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