Priest of Love (1981)
"He was D.H. Lawrence. She was his Lady Chatterly. Their extraordinary romance was more tempestuous than any he wrote."

Title: Priest of Love
Original Title: Priest of Love
Release Date: 1981-10-11
Status: Released
Rating: 5/10 (from 12 votes)
Language: EN
Genres: Drama, Romance
Production Companies: Viscount, Milesian Films
Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to Italy, where Lawrence writes "Lady Chatterley's Lover."
Cast

Ian McKellen
D.H. Lawrence

Janet Suzman
Frieda Lawrence

Ava Gardner
Mabel Dodge Luhan

Penelope Keith
Dorothy Brett

Maurizio Merli
Angelo Ravagli

John Gielgud
Herbert G. Muskett

Jorge Rivero
Tony Luhan

James Faulkner
Aldous Huxley

Mike Gwilym
John Middleton Murry

Massimo Ranieri
Piero Pini