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.
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Cast
- Bill MaynardClarence Hubbard
- Donald GeeJohn Chart
- Aimée DelamainMrs Hubbard
- John CarsonJoe
- Dudley JonesThe Critic
- Desmond PerryHarold Bladdy
- Joe GladwinMessenger
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- Barry DavisDirector
- Dennis PotterWriter
- Don KellyEditor
- Kenith TroddProducer
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