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Director: Lindsay Anderson
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From Time Out Film Guide
Originally designed to be part of a feature called Red, White and Zero, a planned reunion of three 'Free Cinema' directors. When Karel Reisz' Morgan, A Suitable Case for Treatment turned into a feature, Lindsay Anderson and Tony Richardson were joined by Peter Brook, but their three contributions were never released together, and only Anderson's has stood the test of time. Shelagh Delaney's script takes an impassive young girl (Healey) out of her suicidal London office back to her Northern home town, which she views as part of a bizarre bus tour. The film looks forward to Anderson's blurring of the fantastic and the naturalistic in If...., and benefits from the poetic eye of the same Czech cameraman, Miroslav Ondricek. Fitting no conventional genre, the offbeat humour often hits the mark as a non-specific satire on British moribundity.Author: DT
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- stan coleman said...
- Posted on Dec 11 2007 22:59 I worked at J&w Baldwinsltd in Trafford Park and watched the filming in our woodyard saw Arthur Lowe and shelagh Delany on site spoke with crew members and most of the cast paid £5 for days work being filmed WORKING have never seen this film would like to see myself if not cut from scenes as a 26 year old
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Cast & crew
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Producer: Lindsay Anderson
Cast: Patricia Healey, Arthur Lowe, John Sharp, Julie Perry, Anthony Hopkins, Fanny Carby, Stephen Moore full cast
Duration: 41 mins
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