A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.
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- Laurie Lee
- (voice)
- Frances
- (as Teddie Rose Malleson-Allen)
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- TriviaLaurie Lee on writing Cider with Rosie: "I shut myself up two years in the process of writing it. I was down there on the edge of the Fulham Road (London) with blinds drawn. Two solid years, my friends never saw me. I wrote it three times. I sort of carved it about and chopped it down and refined it, yes there was a lot of sweat to it." (Source: 1959 BBC interview)
- GoofsThe cycle that Laurie piggybacks on with his mother has a very modern brake lever, probably from a mountain bike, and cable brakes. At the time the film is set, the brakes would most likely have been connected to the levers by rods.
- Quotes
[Annie is upstairs nursing her new-borm baby. Jack goes up to see her]
Annie Lee: Hello, darling. How is everyone?
Young Jack: Oh, all right.
Annie Lee: You behaving yourself?
Young Jack: I've not broken nothin'.
Annie Lee: Good boy. What's everybody up to?
Young Jack: Marj is out in the yard, Doth's peeling spuds.
Annie Lee: What about the others?
Young Jack: Frances is cleaning her trolley and Phyl is sitting on the steps.
Annie Lee: What about our Lol?
Young Jack: [unemotionally, as if it were perfectly normal] Lol is dead. Turned yellow. Mrs Moores is laying him out.
[Annie looks uncomprehending then rushes downstairs in a panic]