Editing Lady Caroline Lamb (film) (section)

==Production==
Filming started 20 September 1971 at Pinewood Studios. By that stage Bolt said he had been working on the film for ten months.<ref name="ev" />

"I'm not a good director but I know what the author intended", said Bolt.<ref>Movies: Five Gardeners (for All Seasons) Has Robert Bolt Blume, Mary. ''Los Angeles Times'' (1923-1995); Los Angeles, Calif. [Los Angeles, Calif]13 Aug 1972: c20.</ref> He elected to use new collaborators rather than David Lean's crew apart from Norman Savage, who died shortly after the film premiered. Filming was plagued by the presence of [[David Whiting]] who was working as an assistant to Miles and Bolt.<ref>Turner p. 325</ref>

One scene was cut after it earned the film an X-Certificate; Bolt refused to re-shoot it, which meant that several crucial moments of exposition, much of it necessary for understanding the film's narrative, were left out.<ref name="Champlin">[[Charles Champlin]], [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-11-06-ca-16489-story.html "Writers Guild Bows in Robert Bolt's Direction"], ''Los Angeles Times'', 6 November 1986. Retrieved 1 April 2023.</ref>

Bolt did not direct another film. "Never again", he remarked years later.<ref name="Champlin" />

The film is also notable because it is the last film in which [[Michael Wilding (actor)|Michael Wilding]] appeared, in a cameo with his last wife, [[Margaret Leighton]], who played Lady Melbourne. The film score was composed by [[Richard Rodney Bennett]], who later based a concert work, ''Elegy for Lady Caroline Lamb'' for viola and orchestra, on some of the material.