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"The Wednesday Play" Cathy Come Home (1966)
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"The Wednesday Play" (1964)Original Air Date:
16 November 1966 (Season 1, Episode 71)Plot:
From the BBC's influential 'Wednesday Play' series. This tells the bleak tale of Cathy, who loses her home... more | add synopsisAwards:
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a FANTASTIC way to ruin an evening moreCast
(Episode Cast overview, first billed only) | Carol White | ... | Cathy Ward |
| Ray Brooks | ... | Reg Ward |
| Winifred Dennis | ... | Mrs. Ward |
| Wally Patch | ... | Grandad |
| Adrienne Frame | ... | Eileen |
| Emmett Hennessy | ... | Johnny |
| Alec Coleman | ... | Wedding Guest |
| Geoffrey Palmer | ... | Property Agent |
| Gabrielle Hamilton | ... | Welfare Officer |
| Phyllis Hickson | ... | Mrs. Alley |
| Frank Veasey | ... | Mr. Hodge |
| Barry Jackson | ... | Rent Collector |
| James Benton | ... | Man at Eviction |
| Ruth Kettlewell | ... | Judge |
| John Baddeley | ... | Housing Officer |
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Cathy Come Home is one of the bleaker movies i've ever seen. I remember some friends and i went to see a screening with the intention of going out to the bars afterwards. instead, we just all went home and drank alone...
very powerful, definitely worth a look. Cathy's hope and youth is gradually sucked out of her as she has children and slides down the economic ladder until she is completely broken. the point of the film is that the institutions designed to help get women like cathy back on their feet were traps that insured the women would lose their children. the two most notable scenes occur a) at the end when the government tracks her down and rips her children from her arms, only to leave her there sobbing b) when angry townspeople burn their gyspy shanty-town to the ground.
from the waning years of the English Free-Cinema.