Five centuries ago, a mural was created in a country church in the north of England, and then hidden under layers of white paint. Looking at it again will be a distraction, the Reverend Mr....
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| Colin Firth | ... | Birkin | |
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John Atkinsons | ... | Old Man on Train |
| Jim Carter | ... | Ellerbeck | |
| Patrick Malahide | ... | Reverend Keach | |
| Kenneth Branagh | ... | James Moon | |
| Richard Vernon | ... | Colonel Hebron | |
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Tim Barker | ... | Mossop |
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Vicki Arundale | ... | Kathy |
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Martin O'Neil | ... | Edgar |
| Natasha Richardson | ... | Alice Keach | |
| Tony Haygarth | ... | Douthwaite | |
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Eileen O'Brien | ... | Mrs. Ellerbeck |
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Elizabeth Anson | ... | Lucy Sykes |
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Barbara Marten | ... | Mrs. Sykes |
| Ken Kitson | ... | Mr. Sykes (as Kenneth Kitson) | |
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Five centuries ago, a mural was created in a country church in the north of England, and then hidden under layers of white paint. Looking at it again will be a distraction, the Reverend Mr. Keach tells World War I veteran Tom Birken, who will spend a month in the country restoring the mural. Another veteran, James Moon, is looking for the grave of an ancestor of the patroness of the church who fought in the Crusades. The rector's wife, Alice, comes to see the mural and later visits Birken's bell tower abode, bringing a basket of apples. Will she open the book in which he has pressed the yellow rose she gave him earlier? Written by Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com>
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4 December 1987 (Ireland) See more »Also Known As:
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James Moon: Saint Michael weighing souls, eh? Christ in majesty, refereeing. And down below the fire that flameth evermore, eh?
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Theme from second movement
Written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
(uncredited)
Played by the Reverend Keach on the violin
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Colin Firth is seen laying on a tomb in the graveyard smoking a woodbine cigarette that has a filter tip. The film is set in 1920. Filter tipped woodbine were not sold in the UK until 1948. See more »Quotes
Birkin: Judgements always got the plum spots where the whole parish could see the... God-awful things that would happen to them if they... if they didn't fork out their tithes and... marry the girls they got with child.James Moon: Saint Michael weighing souls, eh? Christ in majesty, refereeing. And down below the fire that flameth evermore, eh?
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Soundtracks
Violin Concerto in E minorTheme from second movement
Written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
(uncredited)
Played by the Reverend Keach on the violin
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I adored the book by J. L. Carr, and was skeptical that Birkin's first person narrative could be conveyed on film. Firth brilliantly makes this internal landscape manifest, while the film provides a sumptuous external setting. All the lead cast strike an effective balance between intensity and restraint. Every time I view the movie, I see things that I hadn't noticed before.
I wish I had seen "A Month in the Country" on the big screen when it was released. The laserdisc looks good, though I wonder what I'm missing. Even though the laserdisc soundtrack is monophonic, it was striking enough to make a friend jump when we were viewed it.