The Madhouse on Castle Street (1963) (TV)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Philip Saville

Writer:

Evan Jones (writer)

Release Date:

13 January 1963 (UK)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A man mysteriously locks himself in a room in a boarding house leaving only a note saying he has decided to "retire from the world". His worried sister and the other boarders then try to discover why. |

Cast

David Warner	...	Lennie
Bob Dylan	...	Bobby
Maureen Pryor	...	Mrs. Griggs
Ursula Howells	...	Martha Tompkins
Reg Lye	...	Walter Tompkins
James Mellor	...	Bernard
Georgina Ward	...	Susan Taylor
Ian Dallas	...	Reverend Spooner

Also Known As:

Sunday-Night Play: The Madhouse on Castle Street (UK) (series title)

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Company:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Trivia:

This film is considered lost as the BBC wiped its own archive copy. Start looking now.

Faded memory

Isaw this when I was about ten or eleven, in our little house in Wales. My parents had read something about the program and decided to watch it. It made enough of an impression to remain with me in fragments. I had no idea who Dylan was. I remember him sitting on a doorstep or by a wall or something as the action went on in the foreground, and at some point he sang with the camera close on him. He was wearing his peaked cap. I don't even remember, or don't even know if I understood the story of the play. Now a Dylan obsessive, but the BBC wiped away so many things in its treasure trove. Now its just fragments in most people's memories. Presumably there is a script and stills still in existence.