Film

Gas and Candles

199159mComedy TV Movie

Director: Alvin Rakoff
Year: 1991

Black comedy play about two pensioners struggling to manage on an old-age pension and living in a high-rise block of flats.

Top cast

Edna Doré

Betty

Bert Parnaby

Bill

Leslie Sands

Tom

Simon Oates

Politician

Richard Braine

Journalist

Rod Culbertson

Superintendent Benson

Mark Lewis Jones

Constable Davis

Kenneth Bryans

Assassin

Freddie Earlle

Bus Driver

Patricia Kane

Mrs Betchley

Elspeth Cameron

Tom's Wife

Rachel Boyd

Girl in Chemist Shop

Directed by

Alvin Rakoff

Written by

Jimmy McGovern