Turn-up for Tony

A jobless Geordie shipyard worker escapes from his bleak existence into an imaginary life with the girl of his dreams, a salesgirl at a futuristic Pink Lane cigarette kiosk. This is a funny, bitter-sweet silent comedy, an odyssey through a Newcastle cityscape in transition from an industrial Tyneside to T Dan Smiths modernist vision of the city as a Brasilia of the North. Directed by Robert Tyrell, it is also a brilliant social document of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the 1960s.

Country:

Genre:

Comedy

Duration:

30 minutes

Year:

1968

Director:

Robert Tyrell

Cast:

Tony

Policeman

Tony's girlfriend

Old man

Crew:

Director

Cinematography