Age of Innocence (1977 film)

Age of Innocence, also known as Ragtime Summer, is a 1977 Canadian-British  film directed by Alan Bridges and starring David Warner, Honor Blackman and Trudy Young. It is not based on the novel, The Age of Innocence.

Plot
In 1921 Canada, a young British man, Henry Buchanan, is a teacher at a local boys' school but his pacifist views, and his record as a conscientious objector during World War I, stir up controversy.

Cast

 * David Warner as Henry Buchanan
 * Honor Blackman as Mrs. Boswell
 * Trudy Young as Clarissa
 * Lois Maxwell as Mrs. Hogarth
 * Cec Linder as Dr. Hogarth

Production
Filmed on 35 mm in July and August 1976. Filming locations included Lang Pioneer Village Museum, Burleigh Falls, Lakefield College School, and Lakefield, Ontario.

Reception
In Directors in British and Irish Cinema: A Reference Companion (2006), Robert Murphy said that the film explored romantic sensibility and sexual repression.