18 November 1974 Drama 98 mins
As a young man, Tom, prepares to leave the Suffolk village of his birth, voices and experiences from his family's past crowd in on his mind, weaving a poetic tapestry of the love of home and the longing to get away from it.
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Stanley Baxter as Blacksmith
Ronald Blythe as The Vicar
Ethel Branton as Mrs. Quantrill
Lyn Brooks as Charlotte Rouse
Garrow Shand as Tom Rouse
Peggy Cole as Dulcie Rouse
Barbara Tilney as Jean Quantrill
Ida Page as Aunt Ida
Ted Dedman as Ted
Mollie Dedman as Mollie
Charlie Cornish as Charlie
Charlie Whiting as Charlie
Robin Buckingham as Robin
Alan Wright as Young Tom Rouse
Mary Hammond as Young Dulcie Rouse
F.O. Staddon as The Minister
Peter Hall Director
Rex Pyke Producer
Richard Dobson Production Manager
Rex Pyke Editor
Ivan Strasburg Cinematography
Roger Christian Art Direction
Robert Gavin Assistant Editor
John Metcalfe Assistant Camera
Ian Whittaker Art Direction
Penny Bell Makeup & Hair
Peter Ormrod Assistant Camera
Ronald Blythe Writer
Sally Bacon Costumer
Peter Hall Producer
United Kingdom 18 November 1974
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Akenfield (1974) is a marvellous film a landmark work of cinematic art that has never reached a wider public since it was first shown on television in 1975.
Akenfield (1974) is a marvellous film a landmark work of cinematic art that has never reached a wider public since it was first shown on television in 1975.
Akenfield (1974) is a marvellous film a landmark work of cinematic art that has never reached a wider public since it was first shown on television in 1975.
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By Alan Macfarlane in October 2015.
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01 January 1974
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04 September 1974
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22 February 1974
This movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to life in a wheelchair following his crippling automobile accident in 1959.
13 August 1974
This film traces the prison life of a group of women who-rather than being prepared to reenter society-are brought to the limits of depravity.
01 October 1974
Carl the Gardner grows odd plants for a rich Yankee woman Ellen Bennett living in South America while exercising a mental hold over her.
04 July 1974
Robert and Edward are brothers involved in a web of adultery and deceit. They share Edward's wife and his mistress and a mission to deliver a package of jewels across the Canadian border, but the mission turns out to be deadly.
20 June 1974
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California.
25 June 1974
An employee at the French Embassy in Bangkok invites his wife to join him – and enjoy the benefits of their open marriage.
16 October 1974
The story opens with Celestine eluding arrest with a friend as the police raid a brothel. While hiding out in the hayloft of the Count de la Braquette's estate, she meets the hayseed handyman Sébastien and the butler Malou, who reward her favors with the offer of employment.
16 February 1974
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