A BBC TV film adaptation of a Muriel Spark novel, featuring a gallery of British grotesques, painted rather too broadly. In particular the lusts of aging Michael Hordern are quite hard to take, as are certain batty women in hospital. Renee Asherson is delightful as his slightly forgetful wife, John Wood enjoyable as friendly detective trying to find out who is phoning and saying 'Remember you will die', and Maggie Smith wonderful as a bitchy blackmailer.
With Thora Hird, Stephanie Cole, Barbara Hicks, Robert Flemyng, Cyril Cusack, Maurice Denham, Zoe Wanamaker. Music by Georges Delerue, photographed by Remi Adefarasin, edited by Mark Day. And the dubbing mixer is the fabulously named Aad Wirtz, familiar from things of that time. Its a real (Dutch) name.
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