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"BBC2 Play of the Week" Langrishe Go Down (1978)
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"BBC2 Play of the Week" (1977)Original Air Date:
20 September 1978 (Season 2, Episode 1)Plot:
In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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When the rot sets in moreCast
(Episode Complete credited cast)| 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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Ferrybank, Waterford, IrelandFun Stuff
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Imogen Langrishe: What star is that?Otto Beck: Venus.
Imogen Langrishe: I thought it was Hesper.
Otto Beck: Hesper? No, no, unmistakably Venus. The brightest of the planets - -a planet in fact, not a star.
Imogen Langrishe: I thought they were the same.
Otto Beck: The same - -the same as what?
Imogen Langrishe: The same as each other, planets and stars.
Otto Beck: Decidedly not. Planets are closer than stars, for one thing, and nine of them revolve around the sun against a background of constant stars that do not move. How does one know it's Venus, you ask? Well, because it's the brightest of planets and because it's in the position it should be, if it is Venus, moving in the direction Venus ought to move in. How then can it be anything else but Venus?
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Pinter's "Langrishe, Go Down" is an exceptional piece of work, a beautifully written and multi-layered story as well as a masterful tour de force for its two leads, Jeremy Irons (brilliantly seedy as the 35-year-old leech of a 'scholar', Otto Beck) and Judi Dench, who brings the agonizingly conflicted Imogen Langrishe to life with superb subtlety. We realize their relationship is doomed from the start - partly because it's based on their two very different kinds of desperation - but in this piece, once the two of them have fully realized that the proverbial honeymoon is quite over, it's the WAY in which Imogen responds to Otto's casually-delivered, soul-crushing insults that gives the movie its ultimate power. If you get a chance to see this 16mm version of the BBC Play of The Week, do not miss it.