I Can't... I Can't...

I Can't... I Can't...

8.0IMDb Score
Released:1969-11-01
Genre:Drama
Duration:99 min
Director:Piers Haggard
Actors:Tessa Wyatt, Dennis Waterman, Alexandra Bastedo, Eddie Byrne, Martin Dempsey
Production:Ardmore Sound, Krasne Entertainments
Keywords:wedding night

Overview:

The tale of a young Irish Catholic bride who is devastated when her pregnant mother miscarries and dies on her wedding day. The young woman, one of seven children, blames her father’s lust for the death. When her own wedding night arrives she is terrified and refuses to consummate the marriage with her husband. Her parish priest forbids her to accept her doctor’s suggestion that she should use contraception and she is driven to desperate measures.

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