“We ought to swear to love each other, you and I-implicitly, perfectly, finally, without any possibility of ever going back on it,” he says after their wrestling match. Yet as both relationships deepen and, in the case of Gudrun and Gerald, begin to warp, Rupert comes to understand that he wants more than a workaday friendship from Gerald. Ursula loves the dashing Rupert (Bates), a school inspector, and Gudrun loves Gerald (Reed), a local industrialist and Rupert’s close friend.
Lawrence-is principally about the courtships of two sisters, Ursula (Jennie Linden) and Gudrun (Glenda Jackson, in an Oscar-winning role).
Perhaps best remembered for a scene in which Alan Bates and Oliver Reed wrestle naked before a roaring fire, Ken Russell’s Women in Love-adapted by Larry Kramer (yes, that Larry Kramer) from the 1920 novel by D. Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Alan Bates, Jennie Linden, and Eleanor Bron in Women in Love.
