Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920's English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun (Glenda Jackson) and Ursula (Jennie Linden) explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy (Oliver Reed) and a philosophical educator (Alan Bates), with cataclysmic results for all four. Based on the controversial but classic novel by D. H. Lawrence.
Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920's English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun (Glenda Jackson) and Ursula (Jennie Linden) explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy (Oliver Reed) and a philosophical educator (Alan Bates), with cataclysmic results for all four. Based on the controversial but classic novel by D. H. Lawrence.