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Film details
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Featuring
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Country
United Kingdom
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Year
1971
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Genre
Drama
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Alternative titles
- Bloody Sunday Working
Introduction
“Sunday, Bloody Sunday is Schlesinger’s wisest, least sentimental film, an almost perfect realization of Penelope Gilliatt’s original screenplay.”
Vincent Canby, The New York Times, 1971
Film critic Penelope Gilliatt won plaudits for writing this sensitive account of bourgeois mores, but her script was secretly based on director John Schlesinger’s own troubled personal life, in which his male lover was also seeing another woman. Peter Finch is very touching as the Jewish physician who can’t confront his self-involved partner Murray Head for fear of losing him to romantic rival Glenda Jackson.
Avoiding overt melodrama, Sunday Bloody Sunday captures individuals caught between sexual yearning and emotional compromise, while drawing effective parallels between their private turmoil and the shambling state of early 1970s Britain. Were it not for director Schlesinger’s subsequent fall from critical favour, this would be regarded as one of the great British films of its decade.
The film was considered groundbreaking for its romantic triangle in which a bisexual man has both male and female lovers, a device repeated in the following year’s Cabaret (1972).
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Dr Daniel Hirsh
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Alex Greville
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Bob Elkin
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Mrs Greville
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George Harding
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Mr Greville
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answering service lady
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Alva Hodson
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Bill Hodson
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Professor Johns
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middle-aged patient
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woman patient
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Daniel's mother
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Daniel's father
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Aunt Astrid
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rowing woman at Daniel's party
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rowing woman's husband
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man at Daniel's party
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Scotsman
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Lucy Hodson
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Timothy Hodson
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Tess Hodson
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Hodson son
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John-Stuart Hodson
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Daniel's brother
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Daniel's sister-in-law
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Daniel's nephew
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husband at hospital
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wife at hospital
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next-door neighbour
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Bob's partner
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Bob's partner
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travel agent
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airline doctor
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chemist
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lorry driver
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cantor
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party guest
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party guest
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party guest
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party guest
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party guest
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party guest
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party guest
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party guest
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party guest
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party guest
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barvitzmah guest
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barvitzmah guest
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barvitzmah guest
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barvitzmah guest
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barvitzmah guest
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barvitzmah guest
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barvitzmah guest
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barvitzmah guest
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[Alex as a child]
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[schoolboy kicking a car]
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[Location Manager]
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Chargehand Prop
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Hairdresser
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Special Music by
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Director of Music
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