Highly Recommended
UK
Television Film
Series Title: The Wednesday Play (1964-1970)
Director: Gareth Davies
Writer: Dennis Potter
Cinematographer: James Balfour
Composer: Ronnie Hazlehurst
Cast: Keith Barron, Valerie Gearon, John Bailey, Cyril Luckham
When the MP for a safe conservative seat dies in a fox hunting accident, his defeated labour opponent, Nigel Barton, previously seen in Stand Up, Nigel Barton (1965), begins to campaign for the bi-election; but, as his eyes are gradually opened to the process’s inherent cynicism, dishonesty, and compromise, he becomes well and truly disillusioned with it all, in Dennis Potter’s scintillating, oft hilarious, and sadly still relevant Wednesday Play. Iain.Stott
0 comments:
Post a Comment