Directed by:
Robert HamerCinematography:
Stanley PaveyCast:
Gordon Jackson, Sally Ann Howes, Googie Withers, Garry Marsh, Frederick Piper, Don Stannard, Mervyn Johns, Catherine Lacey, Mary Merrall, Amy Dalby (more)VOD (1)
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In 1890’s Brighton the young son of a puritanical chemist longs to escape the repressive environment of his family life and the overbearing restraints of his cruel, pious father. Eventually finding refuge in a local tavern he is immediately attracted to the sordid glamour of the drinking classes and the gritty world that they inhabit. He also finds himself becoming infatuated with the tavern’s landlady, which will inadvertently lead to him being drawn into a plot to kill her abusive husband. (StudioCanal UK)
(more)Cast
Gordon Jackson
UK
Best movies:
My Brother Tom (1986) (TV movie)
The Great Escape (1963)
The Medusa Touch (1978)
Sally Ann Howes
UK
Best movies:
Anna Karenina (1948)
Dead of Night (1945)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Googie Withers
Best movies:
Shine (1996)
Night and the City (1950)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Garry Marsh
UK
Best movies:
The Magic Box (1951)
Dead of Night (1945)
No 17 (1932)
Frederick Piper
UK
Best movies:
The 39 Steps (1935)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
The Woman Alone (1936)
Don Stannard
UK
Best movies:
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
Mervyn Johns
UK
Best movies:
Romeo and Juliet (1954)
Never Let Go (1960)
Moby Dick (1956)
Catherine Lacey
UK
Best movies:
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
The Servant (1963)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
Mary Merrall
UK
Best movies:
Campbell's Kingdom (1957)
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965)
The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)
Amy Dalby
UK
Best movies:
The Haunting (1963)
The Passionate Friends (1949)
Topkapi (1964)
Pauline Letts
UK
Best movies:
The Trojan Women (1971)
13 (1967)
Turtle Diary (1985)
Barbara Everest
UK
Best movies:
Gaslight (1944)
El Cid (1961)
The Valley of Decision (1945)
Ronald Adam
UK
Best movies:
Lust for Life (1956)
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)
Helen Goss
UK
Best movies:
Stage Fright (1950)
Action of the Tiger (1957)
Jekyll's Inferno (1960)
Bruce Belfrage
UK
Best movies:
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
Black Magic (1949)
Charles Carson
UK
Best movies:
Moulin Rouge (1952)
The Dam Busters (1955)
Reach for the Sky (1956)
Maudie Edwards
UK
Best movies:
Only Two Can Play (1962)
Life Was the Stake (1956)
Under Milk Wood (1971)
Barry Steele
UK
Best movies:
Reach for the Sky (1956)
A Night to Remember (1958)
The V.I.P.s (1963)
John Ruddock
Peru
Best movies:
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Lust for Life (1956)
Quo Vadis (1951)