Film

Scab

19871h 15mDrama

Director: Gordon Flemyng
Year: 1987

Drama based on events during the 1984/85 miners strike. One of the first dramatised accounts, it was written by Geoffrey Case and directed by Gordon Flemyng for Yorkshire Television and won the Rai award at the Prix Italia and the Prix Futura at the Berlin Film Festival in 1987.

Top cast

Brian Southwood

Selby

Eddie Caswell

Tony

Malcolm Raeburn

Malcolm

Mary Wray

Pat

Rita May

Janice

Lesley Daine

Clair

Jake D'Arcy

Reg Briggs

Alan Hulse

Wayne

Joe Belcher

Grandad Billy

Dicken Ashworth

Brian

Barrie Shore

Marjorie

Alan Starkey

Sgt George

Mary Cunningham

Derby Woman

Rebecca Callard

Directed by

Gordon Flemyng

Written by

Geoffrey Case

Produced by

Keith Richardson