Gavin Lambert (23 July 1924 – 17 July 2005) was a British screenwriter, novelist, and biographer.
A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.
During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat, are assigned a vital mission. Their relationship and the operation are complicated by the arrival of Brand's wife, who had a tryst with Leith years earlier.
The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.