An effeminate personal assistant of a deteriorating veteran actor struggles to get him through a difficult performance of King Lear.
Starring:
Albert Finney as Sir
Tom Courtenay as Norman
Edward Fox as Oxenby
Zena Walker as Her Ladyship
Eileen Atkins as Madge
Michael Gough as Frank Carrington
Cathryn Harrison as Irene
Betty Marsden as Violet Manning
Sheila Reid as Lydia Gibson
Lockwood West as Geoffrey Thornton
Donald Eccles as Mr. Godstone
Llewellyn Rees as Horace Brown
Guy Manning as Benton
Anne Mannion as Beryl
Kevin Stoney as C. Rivers Lane
Studio: Columbia Pictures Corporation, Goldcrest Films International, World Film Services
Filmed: 1983 - Released: 1983
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