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Lunch Hour (1961) (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
61 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1961 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
James Hill

Written By:
John Mortimer

Actors:
Shirley Anne Field ..... Girl
Robert Stephens ..... Man
Kay Walsh ..... Manageress
Hazel Hughes ..... Aunty
Michael Robbins ..... Harris
Nigel Davenport ..... Personnel manager
Neil Culleton ..... Ronnie
Sandra Lea ..... Susan
Vi Stevens ..... Waitress
Peter Ashmore ..... Art gallery lecturer

Synopsis:

Shirley Anne Field gives a fiery performance as a young designer on the brink of starting an affair with a married male supervisor (Robert Stephens) at the wallpaper factory where she works. Based on the play by acclaimed writer John Mortimer (Rumpole of the Bailey) Lunch Hour is directed by James Hill (Black Beauty, Born Free). With a tightly-focussed plot telling the story of an illicit lunch-hour rendezvous in 'real time', this is a stylish and highly enjoyable story of subterfuge, simmering tensions and sexual conflict. Also presented here are three of James Hill's acclaimed and fondly remembered short films, all of which have more recently garnered an appreciative fanbase amongst enthusiasts of so-called Trade Test films (which were broadcast to test the then-new colour transmission system by BBC TV engineers during the 60s and 70s).

When a junior executive organizes a romantic encounter with a designer everything falls about creating this comedy.

A junior executive takes a young designer to a hotel for an illicit rendezvous, but things turn out unexpectedly.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 11 November, 2020.