The Trial of Lady Chatterley

A docudramatisation of the 1960 obscenity trial in the United Kingdom of Penguin Books for publishing D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Cast

Ludovic Kennedy

as Self – Presenter

Edward Woodward

as Mervyn Griffith-Jones

Patrick Allen

as Gerald Gardiner QC

Geoffrey Bayldon

as Justice Byrne

Barrie Cookson

as Jeremy Hutchinson

Peter Tuddenham

as Court Clerk

Michael Hawkins

as Det. Insp. Charles Monahan

Robert Cartland

as Graham Hough

Yvonne Coulette

as Helen Gardiner

Hilary Mason

as Joan Bennett

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