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Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Country
United Kingdom
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Year
1977
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Genre
Musical
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Introduction
“...like a Bert Brecht-Kurt Weill collaboration mated with one of the more sentimental working-class subjects that Gracie Fields used to stretch her vocal cords on. Oddly, unexpectedly, the two intentions unite in a truthful, fresh fashion that doesn't exploit the milieu, but illuminates it.”
Alexander Walker, Evening Standard, 28 October 1976
In 1975 Joseph Despins and William Dumaresq finished this extraordinary and unclassifiable film. Exploring controversial issues such as racism, paedophilia, rape, drug abuse and stripping, it employed a number of seemingly incongruous devices – musical numbers, over-the-top performances, theatrical staging – to produce an enjoyable and profoundly affecting work.
Under threat of the compulsory purchase of their Notting Hill terraced house, the German housewife-cum-landlady takes in an American youth, a Jamaican family and a reclusive old man. Elsewhere, an Irishman struggles to hold down two jobs and come to terms with his girlfriend's work in a stripclub. Meanwhile, a couple of down-and-outs sing prophetic songs under the light of the moon. Soon the events which take place around them have a major impact upon their lives.
The magic realist numbers from the film are by Galt MacDermot, who composed the score for the musical Hair, made into an award-winning film in 1979.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Sybil
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Akki
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Bertha Gusset
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Bert Gusset
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Jack MacMahon
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Belinda
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Ronnie Gusset
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Nellie Tudge
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Mr. Deray
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Sherry
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June
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Ethel Tudge
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Joe Tudge
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Jim
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Hippy
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Katie
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Credits
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Direction:
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Director
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Assistant Director
Production:
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Production Company
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Production Manager
Writing:
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Script
Photography:
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Photography
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Camera Assistant
Editing:
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Editor
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Assistant Editor
Design:
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Art Director
Music:
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Music composed and conducted
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Music Performed by
Sound:
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Sound Recording
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Dubbing Mixer
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Sound Editor
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Assistant Sound Editor
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