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"BBC2 Play of the Week" Langrishe Go Down (1978)


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6.2/10   57 votes
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Writers:
Aidan Higgins (novel)
Harold Pinter (screenplay)
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Original Air Date:
20 September 1978 (Season 2, Episode 1)
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In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Judi Dench ... Imogen Langrishe

Jeremy Irons ... Otto Beck
Annette Crosbie ... Helen Langrishe
Susan Williamson ... Lily Langrishe
Margaret Whiting ... Maureen Layde
Harold Pinter ... Barry Shannon
John Molloy ... 1st man on bus
Niall O'Brien ... 2nd man on bus
Arthur O'Sullivan ... Joseph Feeney
Michael O'Brian ... Priest (as Michael O'Briain)
Liam O'Callaghan ... Mr. Langrishe
Joan O'Hara ... Mrs. Langrishe
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105 min
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Helen Langrishe: [speaking to herself, alone in bed] Poking about again. Poking about as usual. I've eyes in my head. I won't go out again. I won't go down again. I'll stay where I am. I'll stay here, in my bed.
[takes letter from behind pillow]
Helen Langrishe: I'm no good without you. Your lovely body. Love of all my life and all my senses. Days are passing, years could go by. Oh, my love, the happiness we had. Your lovely body. Love of all my life and all my senses.
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A melancholy piece full of atmosphere and Irish tragedy, 3 September 2000
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Author: monabe from Tuross Head, Australia

This telemovie from the 1970's deserves to be better known. Based on a novel by Aidan Higgins, it has a masterly script by Harold Pinter (who himself plays a small but significant acting role). If you enjoyed movies based on literature (such as James Joyce's wonderful story from "Dubliners" : "The Dead" directed by Huston) you should find this film well worth watching. A melancholy tale of frustrated love set in the 1930's features top acting performances from all. A young Jeremy Irons plays the German student of philosophy writing his precious thesis with excruciating preciousness and cynicism. (Irons slow pedantic accent is reminiscent of Marlon Brando's choice of accent for his "Burn".)He embarks on a relationship with a woman who is trapped by a family of sisters who - fallen on hard times since the death of the father- seem destined to live lives of slow desperation in their old house in the country. There are many wonderful scenes in this slow but engrossing production.

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