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The Spanish Gardener (film)

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On a stormy night Nicholas finds Jose in a derelict old mill, then Brande finds both and tells Jose that he knows he is innocent. Brande and Nicholas move on to another posting, and as they leave Brande apologises again to Jose, who does not see them to the station but instead says he must stay, as
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British diplomat Harrington Brande takes up a minor provincial consular post in Spain. The appointment is a disappointment to Harrington, who was hoping for a more senior position. His abandonment by his wife may have adversely affected his career, as might his brusque manner. He is accompanied by
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While Harrington is away on a business trip, the drunken Garcia, the butler/ chauffeur, threatens Nicholas with a knife and tries to break into his bedroom and the terrified boy takes refuge overnight with Jose with whom he has again been spending time. His father discovers this and is furious.
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Nicholas sees it as an adventure, and soon becomes friends with the teenage gardener, José, spending time every day helping him with the plants and relaxing together. The exercise he is getting is much better for him than his father's mollycoddling of the perfectly healthy boy. However, the
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and refuses Jose's gift of fish that he had caught. Similarly, he refuses to let Nicholas join a youth group organized by a junior colleague. He later bans Nicholas and Jose from speaking on pain of Jose's dismissal. He also sets Jose to clear a large rockery as punishment.
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Jose is arrested and is taken in handcuffs on a train with two armed soldiers guarding him. Brande is on the same train and suddenly realises his fault, but at the same time, Jose jumps from the train. It is initially unclear if he survived the jump.
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his eleven-year-old son, Nicholas, whom he teaches at home, contrary to his friend's advice that the boy would benefit from the social engagement with other boys at a boarding school. Harrington prefers to monopolise his company.
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Brande goes home and discovers his son has run away. He goes to Jose's family, but they have little sympathy, but the old father thinks he knows where they have gone.
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Garcia then frames José by convincing the father that Jose has stolen Nicholas' wristwatch, that Garcia himself had stolen, to cover up his own thieving behaviour.
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middle-aged Harrington is jealous of his son's enthusiasm for and friendship with the much younger man. He rebukes his son for taking him to watch Jose play
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The film was one of the most popular at the British box office in 1957.
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the film was "in the money" at the British box office in 1957.
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is a 1956 VistaVision and Technicolor film based on the 1950
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Billings, Josh (12 December 1957). "Others in the money".
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The ending of the film differs from that of the book.
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Index


Philip Leacock
Lesley Storm
The Spanish Gardener
A. J. Cronin
Earl St. John
Dirk Bogarde
Jon Whiteley
Michael Hordern
Cyril Cusack
Christopher Challis
Reginald Mills
John Veale
The Rank Organisation
eponymous novel
A. J. Cronin
Dirk Bogarde
Jon Whiteley
Philip Leacock
Pinewood Studios
Palamós
S'Agaro
Costa Brava
Catalonia
O Jardineiro Espanhol
7th Berlin International Film Festival
pelota
Dirk Bogarde
Jon Whiteley
Michael Hordern

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