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Bookmark this pageDidn't You Kill My Brother? (1987)
Director: Bob Spiers
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Comic Strip's radical remake of Bicycle Thieves has Alexei Sayle as twins: Sterling Moss is bad and ignorant, Carl Moss is good and prison-educated. Carl makes bikes with the help of a gang of dole-ites; Sterling, with their help, nicks them. Their murder-mad mum (Beryl Reid, as wonderful as ever: 'You should always put a dead badger on a head wound...') encourages the sibling rivalry with lethal results. Sayle's 'satirical' script takes social awareness to new shallows: the charges of a horribly realistic social worker are called Laura and Ashley. You'll laugh.Author: MS
Cast & crew
Director: Bob Spiers
Cast: Alexei Sayle, Beryl Reid, Graham Crowden, Pauline Melville, Peter Richardson, David Stafford full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 52 mins
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