A Severed Head is a 1970 British comedy-drama film directed by Dick Clement, and starring Claire Bloom, Lee Remick, Richard Attenborough, and Ian Holm.

Georgie works with historic looms in the Royal College of Art in a room overlooking the Albert Memorial.

The opening credits feature accurate dolls of each cast member in turn, rotating against a black background.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Dick Clement's direction, Richard Macdonald's decor and Frederic Raphacl's screenplay all seem determined to inject some specious glamour into the novel's academic milieu and style. ...

A few inventive gags – Martin stuffing a lipstick-stained handkerchief down a pillar-box, the studious grunts and nods of the wine tasters – consolidate the comic talent shown in Clement's first film Otley.

"[5] Leslie Halliwell said: "Unwisely boisterous screen version of a slyly academic novel; tolerably sophisticated for those who don't know the original.