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Long Shot (1978)
Directed by Maurice Hatton
“A FILM ABOUT FILMMAKING”
Comedy · 1h 24m
Against the backdrop of the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, two low-budget filmmakers attempt to talk up some finance as they hunt for cash, cast and ‘name director’ Sam Fuller to shoot their Aberdeen-set oil-boom adventure ‘Gulf and Western’. Along the way, they encounter a plethora of filmmaking luminaries including Wim Wenders, Stephen Frears, John Boorman, Bill Forsyth and Alan Bennett.
Cast
C
Charles Gormley
Charlie
Neville Smith
Neville
A
Anne Zelda
Anne
D
David Stone
A Distributor
Suzanne Danielle
Sue
R
Ron Taylor
American Director
Wim Wenders
Another Director
Stephen Frears
Biscuit Man
J
Jim Haines
Professor of Sexual Politics
M
Maurice Bulbulian
French-Canadian Director
William Forsythe
Bille
Alan Bennett
Neville's Doctor
Crew
- Director
- Maurice Hatton
- Writer
- Maurice Hatton, Eoin McCann
Details
- Release date
- 1978-11-17
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English