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The Edge of Love

Year:

2008

Duration:

110 min

Genres:

Biography | Drama | Romance | War

IMDB rate:

6.3

Director:

John Maybury

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 2008-06-20

Filming Locations: Wales, UK

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $3,944 (USA) (15 March 2009)

Gross: $28,635 (USA) (5 April 2009)

Cast

Actor

Character

Cillian Murphy

The Edge of Love

Simon Armstrong

Wilfred Hosgood

Ben Batt

Sergeant

Geoffrey Beevers

Registrar

Rachel Bell

Midwife

Paul Brooke

Mr. Justice Singleton

Huw Ceredig

John Patrick

Richard Clifford

Alistair Graham

Richard Dillane

Lt Col David Talbot Rice

Joel Dommett

Train Soldier

Rachel Essex

Mel

Craig Gallivan

Sailor Beating Dylan

Callum Godfrey

Boy on Train

Simon Kassianides

Partisan

Keira Knightley

Vera Phillips

Anne Lambton

Anita Shenkin

Raymond Llewellyn

Dewi Ianthe (as Ray Llewellyn)

Alastair Mackenzie

Anthony Devas

Neville Malcolm

Big Joe

Sienna Miller

Caitlin Thomas

Acacia Pattison Biggs

Rowatt Aged 1 Month

Bethany Towell

Rowatt Aged 1 Month

Jonny Phillips

John Eldridge

Kyle Redmond-Jones

Boy Soldier

Matthew Rhys

Dylan Thomas

Leo Robertson

Rowatt Aged 8 Months

Olivia Robertson

Rowatt Aged 8 Months

Jenny Runacre

Woman in Yellow Dress

Camilla Rutherford

Nicolette

Lisa Stansfield

Ruth Williams

Diego Stephens

Llewellyn

Lanark Stephens

Llewellyn

Nick Stringer

PC Williams

Suggs

The Crooner

Karl Johnson

Dai Fred (uncredited)

Anthony O'Donnell

Jack Lloyd (uncredited)

Kent Olesen

Soldier (uncredited)

Matthew Radway

Soldier (uncredited)

Simon John Wilson

US G.I. / English Soldier (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Producer Rebekah Gilbertson is the granddaughter of the real people played by Keira Knightley and Cillian Murphy in the film.

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Sharman Macdonald wrote the role of Caitlin with Keira Knightley in mind, but Keira chose to play Vera instead.

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The interior of the Newquay "The Black Lion" was shot in "The Black Lion" in Cardigan. The pub has since shut due to the smoking ban.

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Goofs

When William Killick boards his transportation plane to Greece the C-47 Dakota shows "D-Day stripes" (aka "Invasion stripes") on fuselage and left wing. Historically and consistent with the period setting of the story - the "Blitz" - this must have been in spring 1941. However, these markings were not in use before June 1944.

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When William Killick boards his transportation plane to Greece the C-47 Dakota shows (incorrectly) black and white "D-Day stripes" on fuselage and left wing. In the stock footage (probably ex-RCAF ZA947 operated by the "Battle of Britain Memorial Flight") used for the subsequent takeoff shot the C-47 has no markings at all neither on wings nor the fuselage's underbelly.

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The air war scenes outside (as opposed to the opening film scenes in the Underground) purport to show London being bombed during the Blitz. The scenes actually were other film footage as Germany used no four motor bombers during the Blitz. The scenes were actually of Allied B-17s bombing Dresden, Germany at the war's end.

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Quotes

William Killick: The boy is screaming.

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Vera Phillips: You don't even see me, do you? Dylan! All you've got is stories in your head. Words. And I have to feel real. William... makes me real.

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Dylan Thomas: Not for the proud man apart from the raging moon I write on the spendthrift pages, nor for the towering dead with their nightingales and psalms, but for the lovers, their arms round the griefs of the ages.

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Faq

Where in Wales was this filmed ?

The Scenes were filmed in New Quay for the first week Lampeter Monday & Tuesday (i was there) Tenby for Wednesday & Thursday. They also filmed in Cardigan. Now they go up to Pinewood Studios in london to film the rest hope this has helped anyone!

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