24 December 1972 Drama, TV Movie 49 mins
Alan Bennett's debut play for television follows the members of a Halifax cycling club, on an outing from Halifax to the ruins of Fountains Abbey. Set in the summer of 1911 and projects an idyllic vision of Edwardian England .
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David Waller as Mr. Shuttleworth
James Cossins as Mr. Shorter
Philip Locke as Gregory Wilkins
John Normington as Arthur Ackroyd
Brian Glover as Henry Boothroyd
Paul Shane as Baldring
Dave Hill as Eric Gibson
Don McKillop as Mr. Tetley
Bernard Wrigley as Ernest Tetley
Paul Greenwood as Edgar Appleton
Paul Rosebury as Gerald Cross
Helen Fraser as Mrs. Ackroyd
Maggie Jones as Mrs. Shorter
Anna Wing as Landlady
Sharon Campbell as Pretty Girl, Connie
Rosalind Elliot as Plain Girl, Luisa
Alan Bennett Writer
Stephen Frears Director
Innes Lloyd Producer
Ken Pearce Editor
Ray Henman Director of Photography
David Fanshawe Original Music Composer
United Kingdom 24 December 1972
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Scenes from Alan Bennett's first play for TV in 1972 featuring Bernard Wrigley playing the retarded Ernest riding the tandem with his dad.
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01 January 1972
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28 September 1972
Single father with a disability struggles to raise his son.
11 August 1972
Doc Saxon and his gang rob the Crown City bank but are double-crossed by Carrasco, a Mexican bandit, who steals the gold and leaves Doc and Donovan with nothing.
01 January 1972
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26 June 1972
The unemployed machinist Alfred "Scheff" Schefczyk moves from Württemberg to West Berlin full of hope, where he finds a job as a transporter.
07 February 1972
In a French seaside town, at a boarding house for civil servants recovering from surgery and maladies, the six male residents' lives change dramatically when two women arrive: Catherine, lively, sexually liberated, willing to kiss, dance, and sleep with the men, and Leonie, reserved, formal, conservative.
01 May 1972
A life-long mercenary commander and weapons expert is commissioned to train an army for an exiled African leader.
26 December 1972
Jack White throws a big party at which many of the artists he has produced perform. He has had an eventful life in which he has always remained true to his ideals, first as a footballer, then as a pop singer and then as a producer, even in the face of fierce opposition from others.
08 October 1972
Delia Peletier has been paid to have a child for a wealthy man who wants an heir. She has the baby and turns it over to her "employer," but subsequently decides she wants the child back.
01 January 1972
An adventure story for children set in New Zealand and told in eight sequential episodes. 5 of 8: The escaped criminals drive away from Wellington in a stolen car.
01 January 1972
The film by Brakhage commonly referred to as "Wecht" does indeed exist. It doesn't have a titlecard at the head, and the leader of the original is labeled "Portrait" in Stan's handwriting, so I'm not sure where the 'Wecht' title comes from.
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