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Alan Bates
Charles Crossley
Susannah York
Rachel Fielding
John Hurt
Anthony Fielding
Robert Stephens
Chief Medical Officer
Tim Curry
Robert Graves
Julian Hough
Vicar
Carol Drinkwater
Cobbler's Wife
John Rees
Inspector
Jim Broadbent
Fielder in Cowpat
Susan Wooldridge
Harriet
Nick Stringer
Cobbler
Peter Benson
Harry the Shepherd
Graham Kingsley Brown
Village Churchgoer (uncredited)
Joanna Szczerbic
Cricket Umpire (uncredited)
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A review by rogerco
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Written by rogerco on Thu Dec 24 2020
I remember seeing this when it first came out (1978) and thinking it a bit overblown. Just watched it again (2020) after it was featured in a list of films containing an English cricket match (a short list; The Go Between from the same period is another one, also with Alan Bates in a similar role)
It now seems a bit better than I remembered despite some inconsistencies and plot holes. Alan Bates, for all his brooding lumbering around, never quite pulls off the surreal menace that the role of Crossley, the man with The Shout That Can Kill, demands.
John Hurt as Anthony the philandering cuc...
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