Country Dance (film)

Country Dance (U.S. title: Brotherly Love ) is a 1970 British drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Peter O'Toole, Susannah York and Michael Craig.

In a fading Scottish aristocratic family, the drunken Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, has an incestuous relationship with his equally eccentric sister Hilary Dow.

In December 1968 James Kennaway, author of the novel, was driving home from a meeting with Peter O'Toole to discuss the film version when he died in a car accident.

[13] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The late James Kennaway set this tortuous tragi-comedy of brotherly love in his native Perthshire; director J. Lee Thompson has taken the opportunity to illustrate the reams of extravagant dialogue with stolid, pastoral views of the neighbourhood (and, as it turned out, Ireland, which often and unaccountably deputises for the real thing).

The rest of the film, which catalogues Pink's whimsical last stand to preserve the remaining shreds of his aristocracy while he crumbles into insanity (the usual wages of incest), is a depressingly crude and rambling affair, with Peter O'Toole giving of his all to match the more floridly aphoristic passages of the script, and Susannah York gamely tagging along behind.