Turn-up for Tony (1968)
Comedy
A jobless Geordie shipyard worker escapes from his bleak existence into an imaginary life with the girl of his dreams, a salesgirl at a futuristic Pink Lane cigarette kiosk. This is a funny, bitter-sweet silent comedy, an odyssey through a Newcastle cityscape in transition from an industrial Tyneside to T Dan Smiths modernist vision of the city as a Brasilia of the North. Directed by Robert Tyrell, it is also a brilliant social document of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the 1960s.
- Date of release
- 1968-10-04
- Runtime
- 30m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Robert Tyrell
Casting
- Tony Tanner — Tony
- Norman Mitchell — Policeman
- Sheila Falconer — Tony's girlfriend
- Ted Lune — Old man
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