Product Description

It is a moment before dawn, and the river traffic on the Thames begins to ease its way through the fog. The River police find the body of a young girl left dry by the ebb tide. Her body is brought ashore and her possessions examined. Who is she? And what drove her to take her own life? For the young married couple (Judi Dench and Norman Rodway) love brought them together, but now marriage and a child have driven them apart. The young husband would rather stay out than return home to a wife kept awake by a teething baby daughter. Their story is witnesses by their friend (Joe Melia), a bachelor, who is exposed as the loneliest of them all. At the same time two young lovers meet outside a nightclub. Desperate to make contact, but afraid of what their involvement could mean, the girl shies from physical contact and the boy cannot cope with his feeling of being trapped by the love she offers. Judi Dench s outstanding performance as the young mother gained her the British Film Academy s 1966 Award as the Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles. Four in the Morning was shown at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival and won the Specialised Cinemas Award: Prix des Cinemas d Art et d Essai.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7579 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-06-23
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Formats: Dolby, PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 94 minutes

Synopsis
A young couple with a child experience the trials and tribulations of marriage. Features Judi Dench in her first films role.

Review
Writer-director Anthony Simmons shows two couples in crisis, tying them in with a gimmick, which works. There's an unidentified girl found in a river. Simmons gives the scene of the discovery and study of the drowned girl a metallic, sombre documentary flavor. A seemingly rootless young man picks up a singer he knows after her work. At four in the morning they romp around the Thames' shores, steal a boat, leave it, almost touch each other emotionally but part still uncommitted. Hints of the instability of both are carefully and intelligently suggested. The other couple is shown as a woman waiting for her husband, out on the town with a bachelor crony. The baby cries and exasperates her. The growing incompatibility of the couple is deftly outlined in bold, dramatic strokes. Judi Dench has the right checked hysteria for her role of the wife with a disposition towards love that makes her poignant. Ann Lynn and Brian Phelan are also effective as the other couple with Joe Melia a pointed counterpoint to the married couple with his personal problems. --www.variety.com/reviews