In Yorkshire, intellectually disabled diabetic Horace works in the back of a joke shop. He befriends loner schoolboy Gordon Blackett, who retreats from his loveless home into an imaginary world.
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Cast
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Barry Jackson
Horace
Known for
Midsomer Murders
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Stephen Tantum
Gordon
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Alan Clarke
Roy Minton
John Wyatt
Fraser Lowden
Talfryn Thomas
Dick
Known for
Dad's Army
Mark Shivas
Colin Pigott
Christine Hargreaves
Ivy Blackett
Known for
Pink Floyd: The Wall
James Mellor
Sidney
Hazel Coppen
Mrs. Radford
Alan Clarke Director · Roy Minton Writer Colin Pigott Production designer
First release March 21, 1972 · Produced in United Kingdom
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BBC
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United Kingdom
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English
Spoken on screen
English
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United Kingdom · March 21, 1972
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