Film
The Apple Cart
- Director
- Cedric Messina
- Year
- 1975
Shaw's comedy of ideologies looks forty years to the future at the impossibility of government as the British cabinet and monarchy face a day of "crisis" for the country. King Magnus is happy to engage a prime minister seeking to transform the nation into a constitutional monarchy, but who truly rules in this democracy: the king, the government or the businessmen? And do any of them care about the people?
Top cast
Helen Mirren
Nigel Davenport
King Magnus
Prunella Scales
Queen Jemima
Beryl Reid
Amanda
Joyce Grant
Lysistrata
Bill Fraser
Boanerges
Peter Barkworth
Prime Minister
Griffith Jones
Foreign Secretary
Trevor Baxter
Colonial Secretary
Reg Pritchard
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Thorley Walters
Home Secretary
Simon Lack
Pamphilius
James Leith
Sampronius
Bernard Taylor
American Ambassador
Deborah Makepeace
Princess Royal
Directed by
Cedric Messina
Written by
George Bernard Shaw