I Can't... I Can't...

“Her Doctor Knows! Her Priest Knows! Why Can't She Tell Her Husband?”

The tale of a young Irish Catholic bride who is devastated when her pregnant mother miscarries and dies on her wedding day. The young woman, one of seven children, blames her father’s lust for the death. When her own wedding night arrives she is terrified and refuses to consummate the marriage with her husband. Her parish priest forbids her to accept her doctor’s suggestion that she should use contraception and she is driven to desperate measures.

Screenplay

Lee Dunne

Screenplay

Robert I. Holt

Director

Piers Haggard

Status

Released

Release date

01/11/1969

Original language

English