Turn-up for Tony
(1968)

Comedy

Released: 1968-10-04

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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.

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Sheila Falconer

as Tony's girlfriend

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Ted Lune

as Old man

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Eric Coop

Cinematography

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