At Last, A Sportsman The British Can Be Proud Of
Blackball follows the fortunes of Cliff Starkey, a working-class fine of lawn bowls with an exceptional talent. Wanting to take on the Aussies he manages to become regional champion, only to get banned. Sports agent Rich Schwartz picks him up and makes him so popular the Bowls Committee deem to lift the ban. Now the question is whether he can regain his form and his friends to beat the Aussies.
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Cast
- Paul KayeCliff Starkey
- Johnny VegasTrevor
- James CromwellRay Speight
- Bernard CribbinsMutley
- Alice EvansKerry
- Vince VaughnRick Schwartz
- Imelda StauntonBridget
- James FleetAlan the Pipe
- Kenneth CranhamChairman Collins
- Ian McNeiceHugh The Sideburns
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- Mel SmithDirector
- Tim FirthWriter
- Vernon LaytonDirector of Photography
- Stephen WarbeckOriginal Music Composer
- Chris BlundenEditor
- James Gay-ReesProducer
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