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What a great find off YouTube this was. Adapted by Alan Silitoe from a short story. Colin Smith (Tom Courtney) has been sent to a Borstal. He’s not feeling remorseful for the petty pinching “wrong” he did: ”I got caught – I didn’t run fast enough”. Turns out he’s probably gonna be on the run, running [...]


Tom Courtney about to run off on the midnight train to London with Julie Christie. Only he doesn’t. You want him to. But he chickens out. Sir Tom is a (dis)spirited sarky funeral clerk, (Leonard Rossiter is boss Shadrack) with dreams of being somewhere and someone better. “A writer? In London? Don’t talk so bloody [...]



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