Between 1949 and 1999, the life and works of D. H. Lawrence inspired ten feature films: nine based on works of fiction and one based on biography. In "D. H. Lawrence: Fifty Years on Film, " Louis K. Greiff examines these films as adaptations, as cultural or historical documents, and as independent works of art.

Significantly, the films were not spread evenly throughout the decades but appeared in three clusters. The first group, or the black and white, appeared between 1949 and 1960. With the exception of Marc Allegret s "L Amant de Lady Chatterley "(1955), all celebrate the British...