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The Buttercup Chain is a British film of genre Drama directed by Robert Ellis Miller released in USA on 11 march 1971 with Hywel Bennett
The Buttercup Chain (1970)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 11 march 1971
Length 1h35
Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
OriginUnited-kingdom
Rating55%
The Buttercup Chain is a 1970 British drama film directed by Robert Ellis Miller. It was entered into the 1970 Cannes Film Festival.
^ "Festival de Cannes: The Buttercup Chain". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-04-10.
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France and Manny are cousins, born on the same day to twin sisters. They grow up feeling a bond as if brother and sister. When he returns to London from boarding school, France and Manny make a pact in which each finds a suitable romantic partner for the other. But when they go away to the countryside with Margaret and Fred, a strange incestuous impulse seems to exist between the cousins, while Manny also must deal with a pregnancy.Actors
Hywel Bennett
(France)
Leigh Taylor-Young
(Manny)
Jane Asher
(Margaret)
Sven-Bertil Taube
(Fred)
Clive Revill
(George)
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