Rolling Home (1982)
Mr Wyman is an elderly man whose increasingly unreliable memory has landed him in a geriatric ward. Here he is visited by his daughters Val and Molly, and Molly's husband Harold, and looked after by the ward's two male nurses, Vic and Donald, who are in competition for a promotion. Donald needs the money as he and his girlfriend are trying to buy a house but are having difficulty arranging a mortgage. From the window at which he sits, Mr Wyman can see a wall. He repeatedly pesters Donald with questions about what is on the other side. Donald constructs a fantasy of the future he dreams of with his girlfriend: a house and garden inhabited by a married couple.
Director: Piers Haggard
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John Barrett as Mr. Wyman |
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David Threlfall as Donald |
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Maureen Lipman as Val |
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Bernard Gallagher as Harold |
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David Foxxe as Vic |
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Jeanne Doree as Alice |
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Pat Heywood as Molly |
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Anna Quayle as Pam |
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Isabelle Lucas as Matron |
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Leslie Pitt as Mr Metcalf |
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Charles Simon as Ernest |
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Molly Veness as Hannah |
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Jack Le White as Mr. Riscoe |
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Ernest C. Jennings as Albert |
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Beatrice Shaw as Connie |
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Gladys Spencer as Mrs. Muschamp |
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Geoffrey Staines as Kevin |
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Michael Worsley as Nurse |
| Directing | Piers Haggard | Director |
| Writing | Alan Bennett | Writer |
| Art | Raymond Cusick | Art Direction |
| Sound | Geoffrey Burgon | Music |
| Production | Innes Lloyd | Producer |
