1965 · 80 min · dramat

VOTE, VOTE, VOTE for Nigel Barton

Name: VOTE, VOTE, VOTE for Nigel Barton
Genre: dramat
Released: 1965
Cast: Keith Barron, Valerie Gearon, John Bailey, Cyril Luckham, Barbara Atkinson

Opis filmu

Opis oryginalny: angielski

Seven million people watched "Stand Up, Nigel Barton," and this audience increased to 8.75 million viewers when "Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton" was shown the following week (December 15, 1965). Dennis Potter ran in the 1964 General Election as a Labour Party candidate, and this experience was the springboard for the play. The political idealism of Oxford graduate Nigel Barton sets him campaigning as a Labour candidate, but he becomes disillusioned and disenchanted by empty political rhetoric, prompting him to speak his true thoughts. Potter added a sardonic sidebar by having politico Jack Hay speak a counterpoint commentary directly into the camera. The two plays were written in a reverse order from the sequence as aired. Commissioned by the BBC in the summer of 1964, "Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton," went before the cameras in April 1965 and was scheduled for June transmission. However, the play's political implications prompted the BBC to withdraw it on the scheduled air date

Reżyseria i główne role

Reżyseria: Gareth Davies

Główne role: Keith Barron jako Nigel Barton, Valerie Gearon jako Anne Barton, John Bailey jako Jack Hay, Cyril Luckham jako Hugh Archibald-Lake, Barbara Atkinson jako 1st Hunting Woman, Agatha Carroll jako 2nd Hunting Woman

Pełna obsada

Donald Hewlett jako 1st Hunting Man
Russell Forehead jako Sir Harry Blakerswood
Huw Thomas jako Newsreader
Betty Bowden jako Lady Chairman
Margaret Diamond jako Lady Secretary
Madge Brindley jako Mrs. Thompson

Scenariusz

Dennis Potter