Two Loves

Two Loves

So busy with her children... She didn't have time to get married!

1961 · 96 min · ★ 5.4 · Drama

American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand. Her experimental teaching methods have won her the love and affection of her pupils and their parents and the admiration of the unhappily married school inspector, Abercrombie. Her personal life, however, is less secure; frightened of love and sexually inhibited, she has always been aloof with men. Eager to break down this barrier is Englishman Paul Lathrope, a somewhat irrational and immature fellow teacher who aspires to be a singer. Though Anna is attracted to him, she refuses to submit to his advances.

Directed by Charles Walters · Written by Ben Maddow

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Shirley MacLaine Anna Vorontosov
Laurence Harvey Paul Lathrope
Jack Hawkins William W.J. Abercrombie
Nobu McCarthy Whareparita
Ronald Long Headmaster Reardon
Norah Howard Mrs. Cutter
Juano Hernández Chief Rauhuia
Edmund Vargas Matawhero (uncredited)
Neil Woodward Mark Cutter (uncredited)
Lisa Sitjar Hinewaka (uncredited)
Alan Roberts Seven (uncredited)

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