Screenwriter Robert Bolt's directorial debut is a lushly romantic saga concerning the 1812 love affair between the wife of William Lamb, Lord of Melbourne, and the author of the poem Childe Harold, Lord Byron. Excited and embarrassed by the attendant affections heaped upon him, Byron found his writing talent waning, and in 1813 the lovers ended their affair. In her first novel, Glenarvon in 1816, Lady Lamb included a satiric portrait of her former lover. But when she later witnessed Byron's funeral in 1828, she was so affected by his death she never mentally recovered from the trauma.

Starring:

Bernard Kay, Caterina Boratto, Charles Carson, Fanny Rowe, Ivor Salter, Janet Key, John Mills, John Moffatt, John Rapley, Jon Finch, Joyce Carey, Larry Taylor, Laurence Olivier, Margaret Leighton, Mario Maranzana, Maureen Pryor, Michael Wilding, Norman Mitchell, Paddy Joyce, Pamela Brown, Peter Bull, Preston Lockwood, Ralph Richardson, Ralph Truman, Ric

Genre:

Drama, History, Romance