From Sheelagh Delaney's play. You only have to look at the opening netball scene to see how good Tony Gibbs was already. He has this incisive way of cutting dialogue scenes too.
Rita Tushingham is very wonderful as the young woman, though Dora Bryan deserves credit also as her terrible mother. With Robert Stephens, Murray Melvin, Paul Danquah.
Music by John Addison, photographed in natural light by Walter Lassally with Desmond Davis as the operator and Manny Wynn as the (uncredited) focus puller - cut to The Uncle. A Woodfall film.
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| Literally a Kitchen Sink drama |
Davis said that Lassally once lit a scene by screwing a Photokem light bulb in to an overhead light fitting and saying 'We're ready!'
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