Home Before Midnight
Home Before Midnight is a 1979 British sexploitation drama film[3] directed and produced by Pete Walker, written by Murray Smith, and starring James Aubrey, Alison Elliott and Richard Todd.[4]
| Home Before Midnight | |
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 UK DVD cover | |
| Directed by | Pete Walker |
| Written by | Murray Smith Michael Armstrong |
| Story by | Pete Walker |
| Produced by | Pete Walker |
| Starring | James Aubrey Alison Elliott Mark Burns Juliet Harmer Richard Todd |
| Cinematography | Peter Jessop |
| Edited by | Alan Brett |
| Music by | Jigsaw Ray Russell[1] |
Production company | Peter Walker (Heritage) |
| Distributed by | Anchor Bay Entertainment |
Release date |
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Running time | 111 minutes[2] |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Plot
The film is set in London and follows Mike Beresford, a 28-year-old[5] songwriter[4] who is charged with statutory rape after having sex with a 14-year-old girl.[6]
Cast
- James Aubrey - Mike Beresford
- Alison Elliott - Ginny Wilshire
- Mark Burns - Harry Wilshire
- Juliet Harmer - Susan Wilshire
- Richard Todd - Geoffrey Steele
- Debbie Linden - Carol
- Andy Forray - Vince Owen
- Chris Jagger - Nick
- Sharon Maughan - Helen Owen
- Charles Collingwood - Burlingham
- Faith Kent - Miss Heatherton
- John Hewer - Donelly
- Jeff Rawle - Johnnie McGee
- Patrick Barr - Judge
- Edward de Souza - Archer
- Ian Sharrock - Malcolm
- Emma Jacobs - Lindy
- Leonard Kavanagh - Mr. Beresford
- Joan Pendleton - Mrs. Beresford
- Ivor Roberts - Inspector Gray
- Claire McClellan - Tracey Wilshire
- Nicholas Young - Ray[7]
Production
References
- "Home before Midnight (1978) - Credits | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
- "Home before Midnight (1978) - Release | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
- Sweet (2005, p. 284)
- "Home before Midnight (1978) | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 6 February 2009. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
- Bowker's Complete Video Directory. Vol. 1–4. R. R. Bowker Publishing. 1992. p. 466. ISBN 9780835237666.
- Sweet (2005, p. 254): "In Pete Walker’s Home before Midnight (1979), [Richard Todd] is a lawyer arguing that a relationship between a twentysomething songwriter and a fourteen-year-old girl does not necessarily constitute a case of statutory rape."
- "Home before Midnight (1978) - Cast | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
- Perrone, Pierre (23 October 2011). "Clive Scott: Keyboard-player, singer and songwriter with the Seventies pop group Jigsaw". Independent.co.uk. Archived from the original on 6 September 2017.
- "Home before Midnight (1978) | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014.
- "Home Before Midnight (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)". Amazon. 6 December 2013. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
Bibliography
- Sweet, Matthew (2005). Shepperton Babylon: The Lost Worlds of British Cinema. Faber and Faber.
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