The film was entered and selected to screen in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973 where the picture won in a tie the prestigious Palme d'Or (The Golden Palm) award shared with Jerry Schatzberg's Scarecrow (1973).
The year that this period motion picture film was set was 1923.
The movie was made and released about sixteen years after its source novel of the same name written by L.P. Hartley had been first published in 1957.
Actress Sarah Miles won a special award at Cannes, a Special Jury Prize, for her performance as Lady Franklin in this film at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973.