Chapters (21)
| JOE ORTON | Gary Oldman | ||
| KENNETH HALLIWELL | Alfred Molina | ||
| PEGGY RAMSAY | Vanessa Redgrave | ||
| JOHN LAHR | Wallace Shawn | ||
| ANTHEA LAHR | Lindsay Duncan | ||
| ANTHEA’S MOTHER | Joan Sanderson | ||
| MRS SUGDEN | Janet Dale | ||
| MR SUGDEN | Dave Atkins | ||
| YOUNG WOMAN | Susie Blake | ||
| YOUNG MAN | Paul Bown | ||
| ELSIE ORTON | Julie Walters | ||
| WILLIAM ORTON | James Grant | ||
| LEONIE ORTON | Frances Barber | ||
| GEORGE BARNETT | Stephen Bill | ||
| MARILYN ORTON | Sian Thomas | ||
| DOUGLAS ORTON | Karl Johnson | ||
| MADAM LAMBERT | Margaret Tyzack | ||
| EDUCATION OFFICIAL | Eric Richard | ||
| RADA CHAIRMAN | William Job | ||
| RADA JUDGES | Rosalind Knight | ||
| Angus Mackay | |||
| RADA INSTRUCTOR | Linda Spurrier | ||
| JANET | Charlotte Wodehouse | ||
| ORTON’S RADA FRIENDS | Helena Mitchell | ||
| Sean Pertwee | |||
| BRICKIE | Liam de Staic | ||
| PUBLISHER | Christopher Guinee | ||
| YOUTH (Kenneth) | Stevan Rimkus | ||
| MR CUNLIFFE | Charles McKeown | ||
| MISS BATTERSBY | Selina Cadell | ||
| PROSECUTING COUNSEL | Antony Carrick | ||
| POLICEMAN | Nell Dudgeon | ||
| MAGISTRATE | Bert Parnaby | ||
| PRISON PSYCHIATRIST | Richard Wilson | ||
| BBC ACTORS | Michael Mueller | ||
| Anthony Douse | |||
| PHILIP | Noel Davis | ||
| PEGGY RAMSAY’S SECRETARY | Philippa Davies | ||
| PATRICK PROCKTOR | Derek Jarman | ||
| GALLERY OWNER | Julie Legrand | ||
| GUESTS AT PRIVATE VIEW | Jane Blackburn | ||
| Stella Richman | |||
| Neville Phillips | |||
| DIRECTOR (Sloane) | John Kane | ||
| ACTORS (Sloane) | Garry Cooper | ||
| Roger Lloyd Pack | |||
| WIGMAKER | John Moffatt | ||
| YOUTH (outside lavatory) | Jonathan Phillips | ||
| MAN (outside lavatory) | Richard Ireson | ||
| BRIAN EPSTEIN | David Cardy | ||
| BEATLES’ CHAUFFEUR | Mark Brignal | ||
| SIMON WARD | Steven Mackintosh | ||
| STAGE MANAGER (Loot) | Joanne Connelly | ||
| AWARDS CHAIRMAN | Max Stafford-Clark | ||
| MOROCCAN BOYS | Ahmed El Jheur | ||
| Moktar Dagmouni | |||
| UNDERTAKER | David Bradley | ||
| UNDERTAKER’S BOY | Simon Adams | ||
| LABOURER | James Duggan | ||
| CHAUFFEUR | John Salthouse | ||
| POLICE INSPECTOR | Neville Smith | ||
| POLICE CONSTABLE | Spencer Leigh | ||
| MORTUARY ATTENDANT | Robin Hooper | ||
| Director | Stephen Frears | ||
| Producer | Andrew Brown | ||
| Director of Photography | Oliver Stapleton | ||
| Editor | Mick Audsley | ||
| Production Designer | Hugo Luczyc Wyhowski |
INT. ORTON AND HALLIWELL’S FLAT. NIGHT. 1967.
Kenneth Halliwell is looking straight at the camera. He is naked and bloody. He looks at something across the room.
HALLIWELL Joe? John? (He looks back at the camera.)
INT. ORTON AND HALLIWELL’S FLAT. DAY. 1967.
The light changes to mid-morning light and we see the door of the flat. Sound of knocking.
MRS SUGDEN (voice-over) Hello. Mr Orton. Mr Orton? Mr Halliwell? Hello.
Slowly a bicycle pump comes through the letterbox, pushing aside a fur coat on the back of the door. We see the chauffeur’s eyes looking through the letterbox. There is a short pause, then footsteps run rapidly downstairs. The door of the flat is broken down, suddenly and completely, falling flat on the floor, very theatrically. A Police Inspector in raincoat and trilby enters, looks round.
INSPECTOR Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Somebody here has been playing silly buggers.
He is followed by a Constable who takes in the room and looks sick.
He sits down, takes off his helmet and puts it on top of Orton’s diary, which we do not particularly note, though we see there is a spot of blood on it.
INT. LANDING AND ORTON AND HALLIWELL’S FLAT. DAY. 1967.