Quest for Love (1971 film)

Quest for Love

Directed by	Ralph Thomas
Produced by	Peter Eton
Written by	Terence Feely
Based on	Random Quest by John Wyndham
Starring	Joan Collins Tom Bell Denholm Elliott Laurence Naismith
Music by	Eric Rogers
Cinematography	Ernest Steward
Edited by	Roy Watts
Production company	Peter Rogers Productions
Distributed by	J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors (United Kingdom)
Release dates	9 September 1971 (London) (UK)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Quest for Love is a 1971 British romantic science fiction drama film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Joan Collins, Tom Bell and Denholm Elliott. It is based on the 1954 short story Random Quest by John Wyndham.^[1]

Plot

An explosion at a demonstration of his new invention catapults physicist Colin Trafford into a parallel universe - an identical world, but with subtle differences, where John F. Kennedy is Secretary General of the League of Nations and World War II and the Vietnam War never happened. Here he's a famous author with a beautiful wife with whom he instantly falls in love, but for whom his alternate self never cared. But just as suddenly, another accident propels Trafford back to our world where he is caught in a race against time in a quest to find the woman he loves. Little does she know, however, that her life depends on him finding her.

Cast

Joan Collins - Ottilie / Tracy Fletcher
Tom Bell - Colin Trafford
Denholm Elliott - Tom Lewis
Laurence Naismith - Sir Henry Larnstein
Lyn Ashley - Jennifer
Juliet Harmer - Geraldine Lambert
Neil McCallum - Jimmy
Geraldine Gardner - Sylvia
Jeremy Child - Dougie Raynes
Ray McAnally - Jack Kahn
Dudley Foster - Grimshaw
Geraldine Moffat - Stella
Simon Ward - Jeremy
David Weston - Johnny Prescott
Drewe Henley - Man
Edward Cast - Jenkins
John Hallam - Jonathan Keene
Angus MacKay - Dr. Rankin
Bernard Horsfall - Telford
Philip Stone - Mason
Sam Kydd - Taximan

Critical reception

TV Guide noted, "an unusual science fiction tale that doesn't completely work but does hold interest...The story gets complicated, but the direction juggles the separate worlds without much trouble. Bell's performance makes this project work. He's believable and earnest and brings it off with a guiding clarity";^[2] while Time Out called the film "puerile sci-fi romance";^[3] but DVD Talk wrote, "a surprisingly effective romance with just the barest sci-fi framework...it succeeds in large part due to the two leads' believable underplaying. Bell is on the right note from the beginning of the film, never overplaying his hand...Collins, whom too many people know only from TV's Dynasty, is simply wonderful here, creating a fully-dimensional character." ^[4]

References

External links

Quest for Love at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Ralph Thomas

Once Upon a Dream (1949)
Helter Skelter (1949)
Traveller's Joy (1949)
The Clouded Yellow (1951)
Appointment with Venus (1951)
Venetian Bird (1952)
A Day to Remember (1953)
The Dog and the Diamonds (1953)
Doctor in the House (1954)
Mad About Men (1954)
Above Us the Waves (1955)
Doctor at Sea (1955)
The Iron Petticoat (1956)
Checkpoint (1956)
Doctor at Large (1957)
Campbell's Kingdom (1957)
A Tale of Two Cities (1958)
The Wind Cannot Read (1958)
The 39 Steps (1959)
Upstairs and Downstairs (1959)
Conspiracy of Hearts (1960)
Doctor in Love (1960)
No Love for Johnnie (1961)
No My Darling Daughter (1961)
A Pair of Briefs (1962)
Carry On Cruising (1962)
The Wild and the Willing (1962)
Doctor in Distress (1963)
Hot Enough for June (1964)
The High Bright Sun (1964)
Doctor in Clover (1966)
Deadlier Than the Male (1967)
Nobody Runs Forever (1968)
Some Girls Do (1969)
Doctor in Trouble (1970)
Percy (1971)
Quest for Love (1971)
The Love Ban (1973)
Percy's Progress (1974)
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1979)

Works by John Wyndham

Novels	Foul Play Suspected The Secret People Stowaway to Mars The Day of the Triffids The Kraken Wakes The Chrysalids The Midwich Cuckoos The Outward Urge Trouble with Lichen Chocky Web Plan for Chaos

Short stories	Consider Her Ways Random Quest

Short story collections	Jizzle The Seeds of Time Tales of Gooseflesh and Laughter Consider Her Ways and Others The Infinite Moment Sleepers of Mars The Best of John Wyndham Wanderers of Time Exiles on Asperus No Place Like Earth

Film adaptations	The Day of the Triffids Village of the Damned (1960) Quest for Love Village of the Damned (1995)

Radio adaptations	Chocky The Day of the Triffids The Chrysalids The Kraken Wakes The Midwich Cuckoos Survival Trouble with Lichen

TV adaptations	The Day of the Triffids (1981 TV series) Chocky Random Quest Consider Her Ways The Day of the Triffids (2009 TV miniseries)

Book adaptations	The Night of the Triffids

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