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Story
Synopsis
Facing retirement, elderly journalist Clarence Hubbard reflects on the pointlessness of a life wasted writing banal tabloid human interest, animal, and crime stories. Rather than go quietly to tend roses in a garden, Hubbard begins a series of violent actions not unlike those described in tabloids, and this is heightened by inter cutting tabloid headlines between scenes. Throughout, there are occasional shots of a television critic who watches this very play as it unfolds, and he writes a negative review filled with cleverly phrased but bitter invective.
- Director
- Barry Davis
- Writers
- Dennis Potter
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Release date
- 13 June 1971
Ensemble
Cast
Bill Maynard
Clarence Hubbard
Donald Gee
John Chart
Aimée Delamain
Mrs Hubbard
John Carson
Joe
Dudley Jones
The Critic
Desmond Perry
Harold Bladdy
Joe Gladwin
Messenger
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