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Film details
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Featuring
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Country
United Kingdom
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Year
1962
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Genre
Drama
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Introduction
“A fascinating and emotional little film that slipped into UK theatres during the early days of the gritty kitchen sink realist days of British cinema.”
Nathaniel Thompson, Mondo Digital, 2011
Robert Stephens and Shirley Anne Field turn in extraordinary performances as a married company executive and a young designer engaged in inventive, if frustrated, attempts to consummate their office romance. When they eventually concoct an hour alone in a hotel room, deceit invades their reality and begins to corrode their relationship.
Lunch Hour was shot in just four weeks, with writer John Mortimer on set adding scenes and changing dialogue almost daily. The result was a truly visual adaptation of the original radio play, with back stories and a number of exterior scenes added – although the climactic hotel encounter remains suitably shuttered and claustrophobic. The film never achieved a major release, perhaps because of its short length or because its absurdist influences invited classification alongside European art-house cinema.
Writer John Mortimer continued to investigate the extremes of human psychology in Bunny Lake is Missing (1965) and the dynamics of intimacy in the Oscar-nominated John and Mary (1969).
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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girl
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man
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manageress
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auntie
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Harris
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personnel manager
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little boy
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little girl
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lecturer in art gallery
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waitress
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[]
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Credits
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Unknown:
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Directed by
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©
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an Eyeline film
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Presents
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Executive Producer
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Produced by
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Produced by
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Production Manager
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[Production Runner]
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Assistant Director
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[Assistant Director (2nd)]
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Continuity
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Screenplay
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Story
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Director of Photography
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Camera Operator
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[Focus Puller]
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[Clapper Loader]
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[Grip]
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Edited by
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[Assistant Editor]
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Art Direction by
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Wardrobe
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Make-up
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Hairdressing
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Main Music Theme
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Additional Original Music
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Sound
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Sound
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[Sound Camera Operator]
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[Sound Maintenance]
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[Boom Operator]
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Made at
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