18 November 1974 Drama 98 mins
As a young man, Tom, prepares to leave the Suffolk village of his birth, voices and experiences from his family's past crowd in on his mind, weaving a poetic tapestry of the love of home and the longing to get away from it.
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Stanley Baxter as Blacksmith
Ronald Blythe as The Vicar
Ethel Branton as Mrs. Quantrill
Lyn Brooks as Charlotte Rouse
Garrow Shand as Tom Rouse
Peggy Cole as Dulcie Rouse
Barbara Tilney as Jean Quantrill
Ida Page as Aunt Ida
Ted Dedman as Ted
Mollie Dedman as Mollie
Charlie Cornish as Charlie
Charlie Whiting as Charlie
Robin Buckingham as Robin
Alan Wright as Young Tom Rouse
Mary Hammond as Young Dulcie Rouse
F.O. Staddon as The Minister
Peter Hall Director
Sally Bacon Costumer
Roger Christian Art Direction
Peter Ormrod Assistant Camera
Penny Bell Makeup & Hair
Ronald Blythe Writer
John Metcalfe Assistant Camera
Rex Pyke Producer
Rex Pyke Editor
Ian Whittaker Art Direction
Robert Gavin Assistant Editor
Peter Hall Producer
Richard Dobson Production Manager
Ivan Strasburg Director of Photography
United Kingdom 18 November 1974
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Akenfield (1974) is a marvellous film a landmark work of cinematic art that has never reached a wider public since it was first shown on television in 1975.
Akenfield (1974) is a marvellous film a landmark work of cinematic art that has never reached a wider public since it was first shown on television in 1975.
Akenfield (1974) is a marvellous film a landmark work of cinematic art that has never reached a wider public since it was first shown on television in 1975.
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1974:
11 October 1974
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within.
04 October 1974
A couple of musicians are on their way to a show at a country bar. Along the way, they pick up a couple of sexy hitchhiking ladies and decide to pull over for a pitstop.
19 December 1974
A young filmmaker becomes involved with a gangster in Berlin. Based on the Ulf Miehe novel Ich hab' noch einen Toten in Berlin.
20 December 1974
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York.
25 July 1974
Twin brother of murdered pro-wrestler goes after the killerses.
01 January 1974
Kenan's wife is murdered by five people, and his daughter is sent to a children's home. Kenan kills four of his wife's five murderers, but is sent to prison and sentenced to 20 years.
01 January 1974
A man who was abused as a child by his community returns there to take revenge.
27 November 1974
A husband buys his wife a ring only to find out it belonged to a crazy woman who had committed suicide and is now terrorizing the family as a ghost.
02 February 1974
A small construction crew on an island is terrorized when a spirit-like being takes over a large bulldozer, and goes on a killing rampage.
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