Stand by · pulling the latest frames
Stand by · pulling the latest frames


During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display little interest in the decline of the British Empire. To their eyes, it can hardly compete with girls, rock music, and the intrigue of romantic entanglements.
6.9
Score
27
Dennis Potter
Channel 4

Roy Hudd
Harold Atterbow

Clive Francis
Major Hedges

Nicholas Jones
Major Carter

Nicholas Farrell
Major Church

Maggie Steed
Aunt Vickie

Bernard Hill
Uncle Fred
Bernard Brown
Bernard Brown
Prime Minister Eden

Shane Rimmer
Lieutenant Colonel Trekker

Kim Huffman
Lisa
Carrie Leigh
Carrie Leigh
Dream Girl
Frederick Treves
Frederick Treves
Brigadier Sanders

Terence Bayler
General

Tim Seely
Brigadier

James Snell
Trigorin