Overview
As a young man, Tom, prepares to leave the Suffolk village of his birth, voices and experiences from his family's past crowd in on his mind, weaving a poetic tapestry of the love of home and the longing to get away from it.
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Setting
Set in Suffolk
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Music
Music by Michael Tippett
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Ronald BlytheWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 18, 1974
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
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In the United States
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Cast
- Stanley BaxterBlacksmith
- Ronald BlytheThe Vicar
- Ethel BrantonMrs. Quantrill
- Lyn BrooksCharlotte Rouse
- Garrow ShandTom Rouse
- Peggy ColeDulcie Rouse
- Barbara TilneyJean Quantrill
- Ida PageAunt Ida
- Ted DedmanTed
- Mollie DedmanMollie
- Charlie CornishCharlie
- Charlie WhitingCharlie
- Robin BuckinghamRobin
- Alan WrightYoung Tom Rouse
- Mary HammondYoung Dulcie Rouse
- F.O. StaddonThe Minister
- Bob WilsonFarmer
- Reg HallPoliceman
Peter TuddenhamOld Tom (voiceover)- Clifford Arbon
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