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A Day Out
Film / 1972

A Day Out

Directed by Stephen Frears
DramaTV movie

★ 5.5/10Audience rating

Alan Bennett's debut play for television follows the members of a Halifax cycling club, on an outing from Halifax to the ruins of Fountains Abbey. Set in the summer of 1911 and projects an idyllic vision of Edwardian England .

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Alan Bennett's debut play for television follows the members of a Halifax cycling club, on an outing from Halifax to the ruins of Fountains Abbey. Set in the summer of 1911 and projects an idyllic vision of Edwardian England .

Cast

David WallerMr. Shuttleworth James CossinsMr. Shorter Philip LockeGregory Wilkins John NormingtonArthur Ackroyd Brian GloverHenry Boothroyd Paul ShaneBaldring Dave HillEric Gibson Don McKillopMr. Tetley Bernard WrigleyErnest Tetley Paul GreenwoodEdgar Appleton Paul RoseburyGerald Cross Helen FraserMrs. Ackroyd
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Maggie JonesMrs. Shorter Anna WingLandlady Sharon CampbellPretty Girl, Connie Rosalind ElliotPlain Girl, Luisa Jane WoodWife Paul LutyHusband Fred FeastGamekeeper Dorothy ReynoldsFlorence's Mother Anthony AndrewsFlorence's Brother George FentonFlorence's Brother Virginia NicolsonFlorence

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