Asian Cult Cinema: Worldwide Exploitation Films and DVDs

(047) A MATTER OF INNOCENCE (1967) Coming-0f-Age Hayley Mills

8700DVD

A MATTER OF INNOCENCE
also known as PRETTY POLLY and HEIRESS OF SINGAPORE [L'héritière de Singapour] (French title)

director: Guy Green
starring Hayley Mills · Trevor Howard · Shashi Kapoor · Kalen Lui · Brenda de Banzie

Young Polly Barlow agrees to accompany her eccentric aunt on a voyage to Singapore. After Aunt Eva unexpectedly passes away, Polly is left alone to pursue her new freedom. She soon meets several men and - for the first time - finds romantic love with a charming gigolo/escort.

Loosely based on the Noel Coward short story Pretty Polly. Coward strongly disliked director Guy Green's interpretation of his story, writing in a syndicated column that "Guy Green should have stayed a cameraman." [In reality, while it's true that Green had been a cinematographer for filmmaker David Lean, by this time, he had become an accomplished director, winning major awards the previous year for A Patch of Blue.]

This film is exactly what it's supposed to be: A coy coming-of-age movie for Disney-fied Hayley Mills, who was no longer a 14 year old virgin (a perennial condition that stretched a decade from The Parent Trap to That Darn Cat). This film was advertised as "Hayley Mills isn't the girl you thought you knew" [Hint. Wink. Hint]

A British film in English Language, uncut 102 min, fullscreen,
encoded for ALL REGION, playable on any American DVD machine.
Extras include selected Hayley Mills theatrical trailers.

SemiNudity/Sexual Themes
Intended for Mature Audiences

$19.95
Sale Price: $17.50