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Poor Cow
''Poor Cow'' (also known as ''No Tears for Joy'') is a 1967 British kitchen sink drama film directed by Ken Loach and starring Carol White and Terence Stamp. It was written by Loach and Nell Dunn based on Dunn's 1967 novel of the same name. It was Loach's first feature film, after a series of TV productions.Alexander Walker, ''Hollywood, England'', Stein and Day, 1974 p377 The film was re-released in the UK in 2016. Plot 18-year-old Joy, who comes from a big family with an alcoholic mother and womanising father, leaves home to marry Tom and they have a son, Johnny. Tom mentally and physically abuses Joy and shows little interest or affection. He has been in prison for four years and, when he is jailed again after being caught attempting a big robbery, Joy and her very young son are left on their own. After briefly sharing a room with her Aunt Emm, an aging prostitute, Joy moves in with Dave, one of Tom's criminal associates. Dave is tender and understanding, but the id ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Loach
Kenneth Charles Loach (born 17 June 1936) is a retiredhttps://variety.com/2024/film/global/ken-loach-retirement-the-old-oak-jonathan-glazer-oscars-speech-1235956589/ English filmmaker. His socially critical directing style and socialist views are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty (''Poor Cow'', 1967), homelessness (''Cathy Come Home'', 1966), and labour rights ('' Riff-Raff'', 1991, and '' The Navigators'', 2001). Loach's film '' Kes'' (1969) was voted the seventh greatest British film of the 20th century in a poll by the British Film Institute. Two of his films, '' The Wind That Shakes the Barley'' (2006) and '' I, Daniel Blake'' (2016), received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making him one of only ten filmmakers to win the award twice. He also holds the record for the most films screened in the main competition at Cannes with 15. Early life Kenneth Charles Loach was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire on 17 June 1936, the son of Vivien ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Karen
Ann Harrison McCall (19 September 1936 – 22 February 2022), professionally known as Anna Karen, was a British actress best known for playing Olive Rudge in the ITV sitcom ''On the Buses'' from 1969 to 1973 including its film spin-offs and stage version and Aunt Sal in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' on a recurring basis from 1996 to 2017. She also reprised the role of Olive Rudge in ''The Rag Trade'' from 1977 to 1978, while her film roles included parts in two '' Carry On'' films: ''Carry On Camping'' (1969) and '' Carry On Loving'' (1970). Early life Karen was born in Durban, South Africa, on 19 September 1936 as Ann Harrison McCall to John and Muriel McCall (née Harrison). Her father was an accountant from Ireland, while her mother was English. Karen developed an interest in acting at a young age, and joined the South African National Theatre at the age of fifteen. She starred in several touring productions over the next two years. According to Karen, the South African ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Juniper
"Jennifer Juniper" is a song and single by the Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan, released in 1968. It peaked at number 5 in the UK Singles Chart, and at number 26 in the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. AllMusic journalist Matthew Greenwald noted that "capturing all of the innocence of the era perfectly, it's one of his finest singles". Song The track was written about Jenny Boyd, sister of Pattie Boyd, shortly before she went with The Beatles and Donovan to Rishikesh. She married Mick Fleetwood and was, at one time, the sister-in-law of George Harrison and, later, Eric Clapton. The song was arranged by John Cameron and features a wind section with Cor anglais, flute, French horn and bassoon, plus shaker and harp. The last stanza of the song is sung in French. ''Cash Box'' called it a "gentle voiced ballad" with "glittering arrangement with hushed drumming, soft flute trills and a delightful small combo orchestration" and "pretty lyrics of innocence and naturalist imagery," and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
''I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname'', also known as ''The Takers'', is a 1967 British comedy-drama film directed and produced by Michael Winner. It stars Oliver Reed and Orson Welles. It was written by Peter Draper. The film deals with creativity and commercialism. Plot The opening credits run as a man carries a large axe through the streets of London. He then enters an office and destroys a desk with the axe. The man, Andrew Quint, works for Dallafield Advertising alongside Lute. Quint has a string of affairs with younger women despite being married. He begins to recall his torturous school days, and these memories entwine with the present. Quint attempts to get back at his boss Jonathan Lute by making a negative commercial reusing themes from earlier in the film, including Lute saying "The number one product of all human endeavor is waste... waste." The commercial, advertising a Super-8 camera, talks about capturing events while you still can before everything is destroyed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battersea
Battersea is a large district in southwest London, part of the London Borough of Wandsworth, England. It is centred southwest of Charing Cross and also extends along the south bank of the Thames Tideway. It includes the Battersea Park. History Battersea is mentioned in the few surviving Anglo-Saxon geographical accounts as and later . As with many former parishes beside tidal flood plains the lowest land was reclaimed for agriculture by draining marshland and building culverts for streams. By the side of this was the River Heathwall, Heathwall tide mill in the north-east with a very long mill pond regularly draining and filling to the south. Battersea () appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 in Surrey within the Hundred (county division), hundred of Hundred_of_Brixton, Brixton () as a vast manor held by St Peter's Abbey, Westminster. Its ''Domesday'' assets were: 18 hide (unit), hides and 17 ploughlands of cultivated land; 7 gristmill, mills worth £42 9s 8d per year, of m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winstanley Estate
The Winstanley and York Road Estate comprises two large estates of predominantly public housing apartments in Battersea, London, adjacent to Clapham Junction railway station, although some have since passed into private ownership. Due to their proximity to one another, the Winstanley and York Road estates have historically been grouped together and share facilities, including York Gardens and transport links at Clapham Junction. According to official data, there are a total of 1,419 homes on the estates, with approximately 5,200 residents. The locality has had various well-known residents over the years, including: John Burns, Alan Johnson and Levi Roots. The estates are the founding location of the So Solid Crew, a UK garage group that had mainstream success and did much to popularise succeeding genres of UK "urban" music. Work has begun for a planned regeneration scheme (subject to a final review from the Mayor of London), taking place on a timeline of December 2018 unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nat Cohen
Nat Cohen (23 December 1905 – 10 February 1988)William D. Rubinstein, et al (eds.''The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History'' Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, p.171 was a British film producer and executive. For over four decades he was one of the most significant figures in the British film industry, particularly in his capacity as head of Anglo-Amalgamated and EMI Films; he helped finance the first ''Carry On (franchise), Carry On'' movies and early work of filmmakers such as Ken Loach, John Schlesinger, Alan Parker and David Puttnam. In the early 1970s while head of EMI Films he was called the most powerful man in the British film industry. He's been called "an unsung giant of British film who never got his due from the establishment in part because of (possibly unconscious) anti-Semitism... the ability to be a successful studio head is very rare and most only last a few years. Cohen did it successfully at various companies for over two decades." Early life Cohen was the only s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Janni
Joseph Janni (21 May 1916 – 29 May 1994) was a Jewish Italian-British film producer best known for his work with John Schlesinger. He was born in Milan, Italy and became interested in filmmaking while at university. He emigrated to England in 1939, and once Italy declared war, he was briefly interned in Metropole Camp on the Isle of Man. Returning to London, he worked with John Corfield. Janni's success with ''The Glass Mountain'' brought him work with the Rank Organisation. Janni made the popular ''Town Like Alice'' with Jack Lee and Peter Finch and the three men were reunited on ''Robbery Under Arms''. Janni went on to produce the first films of John Schlesinger and Ken Loach.David ShipmanJoseph Janni obituary ''The Independent'', 2 June 1994. Many of these were financed by Nat Cohen. Selected filmography * ''Headline'' (1944) *'' The Glass Mountain'' (1949) *'' The Woman in Question (1950) *'' White Corridors'' (1951) *'' Honeymoon Deferred'' (1951) *''Something Mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Garnett
Anthony Garnett (3 April 1936 – 12 January 2020) was a British film and television producer, and actor. Best known for his thirteen-year association with director Ken Loach, his work as a producer continued into the 21st century. Early life and career Born Anthony Edward Lewis in Birmingham, he lost his parents when young: his mother Ida (''née'' Poulton) died when he was five from septicaemia following a back-street abortion, and his father Tom Lewis, a garage mechanic turned insurance salesman, committed suicide nineteen days later. Tony was raised by his maternal aunt and uncle, Emily and Harold Garnett, whose surname he adopted in his late teens (while also simplifying his forenames), and his younger brother Peter was raised by other relatives.Jason Deans and Maggie Brow"Up the Junction's Tony Garnett reveals mother's backstreet abortion death" ''The Guardian'', 28 April 2013 Garnett attended the Central Grammar School in Birmingham and read psychology at University Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Sandford
Christopher Jeremy Sandford (5 December 1930 – 12 May 2003) was an English television screenwriter who came to prominence in 1966 with ''Cathy Come Home'', his controversial entry in BBC1's ''The Wednesday Play'' anthology strand, which was directed by Ken Loach. Later, in 1971, he wrote another successful one-off, ''Edna, the Inebriate Woman'', for ''The Wednesday Play'' successor series ''Play for Today''. Early life Sandford was born in London and brought up at Eye Manor in Herefordshire, home of his father, Christopher Sandford, who was the owner of the Golden Cockerel Press. His mother was Lettice Sandford. His paternal grandmother was the Anglo-Irish writer Mary Carbery; by her first marriage he had relatives in the Happy Valley set in Kenya. Sandford was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford, where he read English. During national service, he was a Royal Air Force bandsman. Career After his marriage to heiress Nell Dunn in 1957, they gave up their smart Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathy Come Home
"Cathy Come Home" is a 1966 BBC television play about homelessness. It was written by Jeremy Sandford, produced by Tony Garnett and directed by Ken Loach. A 1998 ''Radio Times'' readers' poll voted it the "best single television drama" and a 2000 BFI TV 100, industry poll rated it as the second-best British television programme ever made. Filmed in a gritty, social realism, realistic Docudrama, drama documentary style, it was first broadcast on 16 November 1966 on BBC One, BBC1. The play was shown in the BBC's ''The Wednesday Play'' anthology strand, which often tackled social issues. Plot The play tells the story of a young couple, Cathy (played by Carol White) and Reg (Ray Brooks (actor), Ray Brooks), and their descent into poverty and homelessness. At the start of the film, Cathy leaves her parents' overcrowded rural home and hitchhiking, hitchhikes to the city, where she finds work and meets Reg, a well-paid truck, lorry driver. They fall in love, marry and rent a modern flat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Up The Junction (The Wednesday Play)
"Up the Junction" is an episode of the BBC anthology drama series ''The Wednesday Play'' directed by Ken Loach and produced by James MacTaggart. It was first broadcast on 3 November 1965 on BBC 1. The play was adapted by Nell Dunn and (uncredited) Ken Loach from Dunn's short story collection of the same name. It tells the stories of three young women living in North Battersea and Clapham and, to a lesser degree, their boyfriends. Plot Three young female factory workers, Rube, Sylvie and Eileen, go out to a pub where they meet three young men, Terry, Ron and Dave. They flirt, go on a date to a lido and pair off, each couple developing a significant relationship. Terry and Rube soon have sex at Rube's flat while her mother is out. Rube becomes pregnant and must seek an illegal back-street abortion, which is botched, causing Rube to suffer a miscarriage. Although Terry and Rube continue their relationship after the abortion, they begin to grow apart, and finally have a row. Terry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
