John McGrath Trailers
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Born in Birkenhead from Irish Catholic stock, John McGrath was a British playwright, screenwriter. producer, director and socialist who took up the cause of Scottish independence and the principles of a radical, popular theatre with the creation of the 7:84 theatre company alongside his wife, Elizabeth MacLennan, and brother-in-law, David MacLennan. His most famous plays are arguably The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil which was brought to television in 1974 by John Mackenzie for the Play for Today strand, and Events While Guarding The Bofors Gun which was made into the film The Bofors Gun in 1968. He also wrote the screenplays for films such as Billion Dollar Brain, The Virgin Soldiers, The Reckoning, The Dressmaker and 1991's Robin Hood, and produced films such as Carrington and Aberdeen.
Most Popular John McGrath Trailers
Total trailers found: 24
02 November 1967
A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?
08 August 1966
A frank dialogue on sexual likes and dislikes that place between a man and his mistress in bed together.
11 November 1980
In his further adventures Frank finds success and unhappiness.
25 May 1995
Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by the mysterious Dora and they begin a lifelong friendship that has strangely romantic undertones.
11 July 1966
The story of a long love affair is told from three different viewpoints.
06 June 1974
In their songs, comedy and exuberant music, a travelling theatre company give a fiercely polemic account of Scottish history, from the aftermath of Culloden to the oil boom.
14 October 1969
The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major.
31 January 1970
Michael Marler, a successful businessman in London, is about to make his way to the top. After 37 years, the death of his father brings him back to his hometown of Liverpool, where he’s confronted with his lost Irish roots.
04 April 1968
A national service NCO (David Warner) comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Williamson) who is determined to humiliate him.
04 November 1980
Frank, a young lad from Sheffield, leaves home to seek his fortune in London; he finds the big city d
16 December 1988
In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.
13 May 1971
Three stories reflecting life in the Orkney Islands, two set in the past, and one in the present.
11 December 2023
imagine... tells the story of Aviva Studios, Manchester’s colossal new cultural venue, and goes behind the scenes at the world premiere of its opening production, Free Your Mind.
04 December 1986
A woman looks back on her life as a political activist in Scotland from the 1950s to the 1970s.
13 May 1991
The Swashbuckling legend of Robin Hood unfolds in the 12th century when the mighty Normans ruled England with an iron fist.
11 December 1972
A young couple have a baby boy. However, the new father doesn't take to his new position quite as well as expected.
12 December 1964
Ken Russell's silent film treatment of the 19th century comic novel by the Brothers Grossmith - George and Weedon.
08 September 2000
Kaisa is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers.
18 February 1996
A dramatized account of the Scott Inquiry about the sales of arms to Iraq.
09 November 1994
In 1871, 'tired of the speakers of English', Mairi Mhor began writing resistance songs in Gaelic, protesting at the displacement of the Scottish Highland and Island folk by the Southern landlords.
02 January 1965
“Fantasy of the end of civilization. Lesbians commit mayhem during a nuclear war in a wood.” - BFI.
26 September 1969
In the first part, The Compartment, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, humiliates the man until his stop is reached.
31 January 1993
An elderly woman learns that she is dying of cancer. She and her husband leave their small farm on the Isle of Skye to visit their children to inform them of the news.
