Sections & Films

HAROLD AND MAUDE

Category: Edition 1975

Synopsis
Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.

Original Title HAROLD AND MAUDE
Italian Title HAROLD E MAUDE
Category Out of competition
Section Review "Youth Problems in Contemporary World"
Tipology Feature Film
Duration 93'
Production Year 1971
Nationality USA
Directed by Hal Ashby
Screenplay Colin Higgins
Director of photography John Alonzo
Production Design Michael D. Haller
Costume Design William Ware Theiss
Music Cat Stevens
Main cast Bud Cort (Harold Chasen)
Ruth Gordon (Marjorie Chardin - Maude)
Vivian Pickles (Mrs. Chasen)
Cyril Cusack (Glaucus)
Charles Tyner (uncle Victor)
Ellen Geer (Sunshine Doré)
Eric Christmas (priest)
George Wood (psychiatrist)
Judy Engels (Candy Gulf)
Shari Summers (Edith Phern)
Tom Skerritt (police-man)
Italian Voices Claudio Sorrentino (Harold Chasen)
Emilio Cigoli (uncle Victor)
Produced by Colin Higgins, Charles Mulvehill
Executive producer Mildred Lewis

 regista hal ashbyHAL ASHBY
Hal Ashby (September 2, 1929) is an American film director and editor associated with the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. Before his career as a director Ashby edited films for Norman Jewison, notably "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming" (1966), which earned Ashby an Academy Award nomination for Best Editing, and "In the Heat of the Night" (1967), which earned him his only Oscar for the same category. Other films directed by Ashby include "The Landlord" (1970), "Harold and Maude" (1971), "The Last Detail" (1973).

 

production
Mildred Lewis and Colin Higgins Productions
(USA)
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Paramount Pictures
(USA)

Italian distribution
Cinema International Corporation (CIC)
(Italy)