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Born in Liverpool in 1940, Neville Smith, a one time collaborator of director Ken Loach, is one of a number of working-class actors and writers to have transformed the subject-matter and tone of television drama in the 1960s and 1970s. He was responsible for two of Loach's finest television films - 'The Golden Vision' (The Wednesday Play, BBC, tx. 17/4/1968) and After a Lifetime (ITV, tx. 18/7/1971) - but also developed a partnership with the director Stephen Frears, for whom he wrote the cult British detective film, Gumshoe (UK/US, 1971).
Most Popular Neville Smith Trailers
Total trailers found: 26
17 November 1978
Against the backdrop of the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, two low-budget filmmakers attempt to talk up some finance as they hunt for cash, cast and ‘name director’ Sam Fuller to shoot their Aberdeen-set oil-boom adventure ‘Gulf and Western’.
17 November 1965
In this off-beat musical – a satire that combines fantasy, social observation and songs – a working class man goes to put a deposit on a new house only to find he prefers spending to saving and is happy to spend his money on a few hours of happiness rather than a lifetime's conventionality.
01 January 1969
Jewish people - and a few Gentiles - muse on what it means to be Jewish in 1960s Britain. The challenges of maintaining faith and culture outside Israel, and in a society where ‘Jewish’ and ‘English’ are seen as mutually exclusive identities are perceptively explored in this astute documentary.
17 April 1968
The obsessive supporters of Everton FC forsake wives, families and God to follow their beloved team. Meanwhile, the club and its players try to live up to their expectations.
03 February 1979
Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested in him, on his afternoon off work he buys a box of chocolates and sets off to find her.
17 February 1965
A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.
20 May 1971
Wilkinsons glass-works dominates a Staffordshire town. After a small walkout over pay discrepancies, the workers of the factory vote to go on strike, but they are denied support by their trade union.
11 October 1979
Play For Today written by and starring Neville Smith. Christian Harvey , a local radio DJ and ageing rocker, is an obsessive fan of Elvis and the news of Elvis's death is for him a personal tragedy as well as the end of an era.
19 November 1969
The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration.
22 February 1976
When teacher Tony Scannell decides he wants to be ordained as a Catholic Priest his decision has wide ranging effects on his family and loved ones.
15 August 1963
A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant.
02 April 1969
A group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool.
24 July 1987
In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister.
13 June 1982
The true story of the First world football competition, won by a team comprised of miners from Durham.
17 April 1987
When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they start an affair.
01 December 1971
A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.
04 January 1987
Two guys meet, one American, a deserter from the US army, one Brit, and they are drawn together by their mutual love of Soul music.
01 February 1967
The Lump is an uncompromising exploration of exploitation and resistance within the building trade.
01 January 1970
A Marxist-Leninist expelled from the British Communist Party joins the Revolutionary Party of the Third World, sleeps around, and attempts to rethink his place within the revolution after the events of the 1968 May uprising in Paris.
29 November 2019
A double offering of heavy metal madness from The Comic Strip and Bad News.
19 February 1969
After a prolonged industrial dispute in the Liverpool Docks, the striking workers reject management demands of a return to work and decide instead to occupy the docks and run the operation themselves.
24 January 1983
A documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick up a schoolgirl groupie, and meet up with rock journalist Sally at a motorway service station where they argue about the cost of sausage and chips.
18 March 1974
Chance has missed the match, but the girls at his sister's wedding might make up for it
02 December 1978
A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentric mother.
01 March 1967
Kate, a young girl under psychiatric examination, suffers from a lack of confidence, self-esteem and self-control – telling of the “bad Kate” who commits immoral acts.
12 September 1964
The TARDIS materialises not far from Paris in 1794 — one of the bloodiest years following the French Revolution of 1789.
