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Paper Roses (1971)
Directed by Barry Davis
Drama, TV Movie · 52m
Facing retirement, elderly journalist Clarence Hubbard reflects on the pointlessness of a life wasted writing banal tabloid human interest, animal, and crime stories. Rather than go quietly to tend roses in a garden, Hubbard begins a series of violent actions not unlike those described in tabloids, and this is heightened by inter cutting tabloid headlines between scenes. Throughout, there are occasional shots of a television critic who watches this very play as it unfolds, and he writes a negative review filled with cleverly phrased but bitter invective.
Cast
Bill Maynard
Donald Gee
Aimée Delamain
John Carson
Joe Gladwin
Crew
- Director
- Barry Davis
- Writer
- Dennis Potter
- Editor
- Don Kelly
- Producer
- Kenith Trodd
Details
- Release date
- 1971-06-13
- Runtime
- 52m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Granada Television