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"Play for Today" (1970)Original Air Date:
10 April 1984 (Season 14, Episode 10)Plot:
A film about the cruelty of war. Charles Dance plays an officer who is sent out to investigate a rumour... more | full synopsisPlot Keywords:
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(Episode Credited cast) | Sally Baxter | ... | Susan |
| Lauren Beales | ... | Christopher |
| David Beckett | ... | Corporal |
| Suzanne Bertish | ... | Alice Durkow |
| Cyril Cusack | ... | Mr. Reed |
 | Charles Dance | ... | Captain John Truman |
| Lindsay Duncan | ... | Karen Miller |
| Joanna Foster | ... | Joan |
| Patrick Godfrey | ... | Commanding officer |
| David Hatton | ... | Ian Street |
| Ian Hogg | ... | Dennis Ibbetson |
| Godfrey Jackman | ... | A.R.P. Warden |
| John Joyce | ... | Charlie Muir |
| Gorden Kaye | ... | Vicar |
| Anthony Langdon | ... | Joe Hutton |
| Ian Liston | ... | N.C.O. Driver |
| Paul Luty | ... | Ben Leslie |
| Tony Mathews | ... | Simon |
| Anna Mottram | ... | Gayle Hutton |
| Graham Padden | ... | Captain |
| June Page | ... | Women Evacuee |
| Bert Parnaby | ... | Fleming |
| Hayden Parsey | ... | Timothy |
| Tony Pitts | ... | Roy Bates |
| Anthony Rowson | ... | Tom Durkow |
| Katherine Schofield | ... | Jennifer |
| Gwyneth Strong | ... | Linda |
| Roger Walker | ... | Home Guard |
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I saw this film on television in 1986. To saw that it portrays the "cruelty of war" is not quite exact. It portrays (some) men's hate of women from the first to the last.
Women who are already living in, and have come to a small English village, to help the war effort in WWII create resentment among the men who have been exempt from service for various reasons and left behind. The men can only deal with their not having an opportunity to "serve their country" and jealousy of women who can by resorting to violence.
I think, although I hope not, that this was based on something that really happened.
Chilling, even when I think of it almost 20 years later.