Passionate Summer is a 1958 British drama film directed by Rudolph Cartier and starring Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers and Yvonne Mitchell.

[3] A British schoolteacher moves to Jamaica to teach after a tumultuous divorce, and meets an exciting new woman.

"[5] In March 1950 it was announced that Alec Guinness was weighing up whether to appear in The Mudlark at 20th Century Fox or The Shadow and the Peak from J. Arthur Rank.

In December 1951 Hamer said producer Michael Truman would be going to the US in January to negotiate changes to the script with the Breen Office (the US censor).

Michael Balcon reportedly gave his approval, then changed his mind, worried about the film's erotic content.

[10] In March 1958 it was announced the film would be made in Jamaica and at Pinewood Studios under the title of Passionate Summer starring Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers and Yvonne Mitchell.

[14]Variety called it "the sort of glossy novelettish yarn that will do nothing for the reputation of the British film industry.