A Day in Summer (TV 1989)

Boring bank manager Peplow arrives by the early-morning train in the small Yorkshire Dales town of Great Minden on the day of their annual Feast (fair). He chances to meet Herbert Ruskin, ... See full summary »

Director:

Bob Mahoney

Writers:

J.L. Carr (novel), Alan Plater

Stars:

Peter Egan, Jack Shepherd, John Sessions

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Peter Egan	...	Jack Ruskin
Jack Shepherd	...	Peplow
John Sessions	...	Croser
Jill Bennett	...	Miss Prosser
Ian Carmichael	...	Ted Bellenger
Anna Cropper	...	Lydia Prosser
Tom Chadbon	...	Rector
Suzanne Bertish	...	Georgina
Carol Gillies	...	Mrs. Emily Loatley
Jon Lacy-Colson	...	Nick Bellenger
Daragh O'Malley	...	Frederick Dolan
Tracey Wilkinson	...	Mrs. Thickness
Philip Wilde	...	Mr. Thickness
Ingrid Wells	...	Effie
Eamon Maguire	...	Artie Dolan

Storyline

Boring bank manager Peplow arrives by the early-morning train in the small Yorkshire Dales town of Great Minden on the day of their annual Feast (fair). He chances to meet Herbert Ruskin, who used to be in the same RAF squadron and had lost his legs in a wartime flying accident ten years earlier. A cripple, Ruskin now spends all his days looking out of his window, passing witty but cynical comments on everything the locals do. As the day wears on and the fairground music gets louder, it gradually emerges that Peplow, normally a staid and unemotional man, has come to Great Minden on a macabre mission... involving the use of his service revolver! And it is no coincidence that he has come on the day of the Feast.

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Plot Keywords:

based on novel

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Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 February 1989 (UK)

Filming Locations:

Keighley Railway Station, Keighley, West Yorkshire, England, UK

Company Credits

Production Co:

Devonshire Productions, Yorkshire Television (YTV)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

105 min 105 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The camera lingers on a fairground sign "All children must be paid for". This is highly appropriate, bearing in mind Peplow's quest to make sure that two of the fairground workers pay the ultimate price for killing his son in a drink-driving accident.

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Quotes

Rector: Perhaps you could start a dramatic society for the young married couples. You could play the lead - give them a standard.
Georgina: [incredulous] Start a *dramatic* society?
Rector: Why not?
Georgina: [sighs contemptuously] Because as an actress I was a washout - and you know it.
Rector: You had that year in rep.
Georgina: Doing what? Walking on, walking off. And that was because I bulged in the right places and they could sell a few seats to aged incapables looking for a cheap thrill.

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